Riverbend Blog 12:22 "8 explosions...they don't see the kids.."

[DuctapeFatwa]

Baghdad has been a very tense place these last few days. Yesterday alone we heard around 8 explosions though none of the news channels seem to be covering them. There have also been several demonstrations- some anti-Saddam and some pro-Saddam and several anti-America. The most prominent anti-America demonstrations took place in A'adhamiya and Amiriya, two residential areas in Baghdad.

One demonstration in A'adhamiya included people from all over the city. The demonstrators were demanding the release of hundreds of people who have been detained over the last few weeks (there are thousands of detained Iraqis, overall). Most people imagine detained Iraqis as being bearded, angry men in their 30s or 40s shouting anti-imperialist slogans and whipping their heads about in a livid frenzy. They do not see the women- school teachers, professors and housewives- being herded off to the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. They don't see the kids- some no more than 13 or 14 years old- who are packed away with bags over their heads, hands secured behind their backs. They don't see the anxious mothers and children, weeping with fear and consternation, begging in a language foreign to the soldiers to know where their loved ones are being taken.

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[Jacobin]

1. The Re-Saddamization of Iraq

Courtesy of American Invaders.

Anyone who thinks this is going well or will end well is fooling himself.

When we are finally run out of IraqNam after thousands of U.S. military casualties and tens of thousands of Iraqi casualties (probably in a Democratic administration), the repukes will dust off the Vietnam lie---that we could have won but for the protesters.

This won't end until the draft comes in 2005, the young people in this country wake up from their sleep and begin to engage in civil disobedience.

[kentuck]

2. They reported the 2 casualties today because they had to.....

But, mostly, they are attempting a blackout on the news from Baghdad, so as to try and make it look as if things have really changed since Saddam was captured. The media is playing along with the game.

[Jacobin]

3. Disgusting isn't it?

I'm waiting for hordes of american servicemen to come home (those who will be LEAVING the military and no longer under its censorship) to start telling what is really happening there.

I remember those coming home from Vietnam and telling their stories. Made a huge difference in public opinion and helped end that idiotic adventure.

[kentuck]

4. Yep! No one was more outspoken than John Kerry.

I cannot help but believe he is the same person today.

[sistersofmercy]

5. I like reading the riverbend blog

Haven't read it in a while. Thanks for posting.