The frequent US bombing of civilian Iraqi cities that are already under US military occupation

[seemslikeadream]

"The frequent US bombing of civilian Iraqi cities that are already under US military occupation has been one of the most under-reported stories of the Iraq War."



http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1660-brought-to-heel-the-grim-realities-behind-bushs-humiliation-in-baghdad.html
Brought to Heel: The Grim Realities Behind Bush's Humiliation in Baghdad
It has indeed. It is virtually an un-reported story in the mainstream press. This savage air campaign (a flagrant war crime, by the way; but of course in these days of "continuity," no one cares about that) was a key component of what Barack Obama has called the "success beyond our wildest dreams" of Bush's "surge" – along with the U.S. death squad operations that Establishment court scribe Bob Woodward was allowed to reveal earlier this year. Meanwhile, that "wild success" – which engendered a sense of "triumphalism" among Bush's entourage on the trip to Baghdad, the NY Times reports – has produced such a peaceful, stable situation that Bush had to sneak into Iraq's capital city (having sneaked out of America's capital city), where he was humiliated before the entire world…. more than five full years after he proclaimed "Mission accomplished." (If this is the type of "wild success" Obama envisions for his own promised Bush-like surge in Afghanistan, then the prez-elect better prepare himself for a taste of shoe leather on one of his future visits to Kabul, as one of our commenters here astutely noted yesterday.)

As for Zaidi, AbuKhalil asks another pertinent question: "Will those fancy Western journalistic associations now demand that he be released? Will they speak on his own behalf? Or will they now say that shoe throwing is a brand of terrorism and that the man should be shipped to Guantanamo?" No points for guessing the answer to that one.

AbuKhalil also notes that Zaidi is a leftist, although he will doubtless be portrayed as a typical "Muslim extremist" in the corporate press. Or rather, they will say nothing at all about his background and motivation, leaving their well-trained readers and viewers to assume that he is one of them dark and dastardly Islamofascist devils.

But he is not. Whatever else Zaidi may or may not be, in his action on Sunday he was simply a human being driven beyond all endurance by the sight of the man who was directly responsible for the scenes of carnage, suffering and despair that Zaidi has witnessed among his own people, year after year after year. He has also experienced it directly, having been kidnapped by unnamed forces in 2007 and beaten for two days while they questioned him about his journalistic work – the same kind of treatment he is doubtless receiving at the moment from the "sovereign" government of "liberated" Iraq.

[Karenina]

1. Ya know what, K?

I truly believe that Amis' are oblivious because they've NEVER HAD BOMBS DROPPED ON THEIR HEADS and simply CANNOT get it.

[seemslikeadream]

2. "Will those fancy Western journalistic associations now demand that he be released?

and now another war is starting, (read about that in M$M, NOT) move over Iraq we are on to more terror, more never ending wars. There is no hope in organized religions, only war


Peace to you Karenina

SLaD


THERE IS NO POLITICAL SOLUTION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Obdx0nnM0

[Karenina]

7. Thanks for that link, SLaD!

That and Linda Ronstadt's polka dot album were the only ones I listened to during my second pregnancy AND you pegged my FAVOURITE TUNE! :loveya: NEEENOOONEEENOOO! :loveya: :rofl:

Exactly WHERE ARE the international press institutions using whatever means at their disposal to PROTECT THIS MAN and secure his release??? :shrug:

[Larkspur]

3. What the US is doing is similar to what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians

Both bomb civilian targets in the name of attacking militants and all both are doing is fueling the hatred against them by the people they bomb.

[seemslikeadream]

4. There you go Larkspur

Reading between the invisible lines again ;)

[Robbien]

6. And all the while the media is blaming the bombing victims in both Gaza and Iraq

Anyone who says different is anti-American or Anti-Semitic

[Karenina]

9. WE must claim our power.

There is no political solution
to our troubled evolution
have no faith in constitution
there is no bloody revolution

We are spirits in the material world

Our so-called leaders speak
with words they try to jail you
they subjugate the meek
but it's the rhetoric of failure

We are spirits in the material world

Where does the answer lie?
Live from day to day
if it's something we can't buy
there must be another way

We are spirits in the material world

[RC]

10. How else can you have all wat, all the time if you don't keep making enemies?

[seemslikeadream]

5. I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone gets my

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPyOLw2EcBc


Just a castaway, an island lost at sea, oh
Another lonely day, with no one here but me, oh
More loneliness than any man could bear
Rescue me before I fall into despair, oh

I'll send an S.O.S. to the world
I'll send an S.O.S. to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle,
Message in a bottle,

A year has passed since I wrote my note
But I should have known this right from the start
Only hope can keep me together
Love can mend your life but
Love can break your heart
I'll send an S.O.S. to the world
I'll send an S.O.S. to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle,
Message in a bottle,
Message in a bottle,
Message in a bottle,

Walked out this morning, don't believe what I saw
Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
Seems I'm not alone in being alone
Hundred billion castaways, looking for a home
I'll send an S.O.S. to the world
I'll send an S.O.S. to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle,
Message in a bottle,
Message in a bottle,
Message in a bottle,
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S.
Sending out at an S.O.S...

[bigtree]

8. 'protecting interests'

and preserving empire

[Pastiche423]

11. K&R!

[malaise]

12. There was another car bomb today

Several people died
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7801093.stm
<snip>
At least 22 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in a Shia district of Baghdad, security officials have said.

Women and children were reportedly among the dead in the blast, near a bus station in the Kadhimiya district. At least 54 others were injured.

The US military said the attack took place around noon (0900 GMT).

Correspondents say the area targeted in the attack is on the way to a major Shia mosque, where crowds often gather on Saturdays.

There has been a decrease in violence in Iraq in recent months, but attacks still occur regularly in Baghdad and other cities.

Ten days ago, 18 people were killed and dozens wounded in a twin bomb attack in Baghdad's Munstansariyah district, close to a police station and a hospital. Police were among the dead.