Another You Tube Outrage, by Cindy Sheehan

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Another You Tube Outrage (her "U.S. Empire Day" video was removed from Youtube for “violating terms of service”)
By Cindy Sheehan

...I think it’s pretty gruesome that the US Military has held up to 6000 juveniles in its torture prisons in the Middle East and there has been rape and torture reported to individuals as young as 10 years old! How can any human being torture another human being, much less a child? These kinds of stories remind me of the most horrendous slasher movies that I can think of, but they are not the pretend product of twisted fantasy, but factual and mind-blowingly real.

Former US Soldier, Steven Green, was recently given life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2007 rape, mutilation and murder of a 14-year-old girl in Mahmoudiya, Iraq. Not only was Green the ringleader in the rape and murder; the squad also killed her family. Unfortunately, even though Green was a “bad apple,” the situation we find ourselves in is an entire salad of rotten fruit and incidences like this one are not uncommon, but rarely reported.

Once when I was in Amman, Jordan speaking with prominent Iraqis, a Sheikh told me that US soldiers burst into his home, severely beating him and raping his wife, all in the presence of his 14-year-old son. The Sheikh told me that it was his son’s fondest dream to kill US Soldiers. Can you imagine this happening to your family? What if something like this happened in your home? You’re sitting around watching American Idol, or some crap like that, and Iraqis break into your home and terrorize and brutalize your family? I am sure you would all just chalk it up to “freedom and democracy” and be happy to go about your miserable lives comforted by the fact that your country was being occupied and destroyed for your own good.

During the US-UN-Clinton led sanctions against Iraq, the UN estimates that over 500,000 children died from starvation, disease, or violence. 500,000 Iraqi children would be like 5,000,000 US children dying. Former UN Ambassador under Clinton called that sacrifice for US Empire by the children of Iraq “worth it.” Over one million people have died in Iraq since Bush's invasion in 2003 and most of that figure counts women and children.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/42995

[mmonk]

1. The sanctions along with the dismateling of the teeth of its military

structure was the first clue to me in 2002 that the invasion of Iraq was without a doubt a complete lie. I told people around me we were invading them, not because they were a threat, but because it would be easy pickings to conquer and divy up the spoils. People thought I was insane and unpatriotic.

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2. K&R

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[Echo In Light]

3. This one will sink like a stone....so bumping

[conscious evolution]

4. K&R

[Annces]

5. That's what I think of too when I think of Iraq

The terror and destruction for Iraqis and also the trauma of US soldiers.

[Echo In Light]

6. Bumping

[Cleita]

7. Go Cindy! n/t