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Headlines : IraqEating Iraq
Chris Floyd provides us with an update on the “progress” in Iraq. He paints a picture of a nation wracked by persistent violence, rife with corruption and plagued by disease. It is a nation where seventy percent of the population has no access to clean drinking water and unscrupulous public officials sell state resources on the black market.
What then, in the end, do our leaders – present and future, Republican and Democrat – stand for? What is the most apt emblem for the ultimate value they embody and most assidiously serve?
A child dying in her own shit and blood, in a land ripped to pieces by a criminal war.
[Posted By Heatscore]Republished from Empire Burlesque
In a remarkably short amount of time, the “conventional wisdom” of America’s media-political class has embraced the idea that George W. Bush’s escalation of the Iraq war in 2007 has been a “success.” This highly dubious notion — based on nothing but the fact that the horrific murder rate spawned by Bush’s act of aggression has momentarily abated to previous levels of savagery that were once considered catastrophic — now serves as the basic assumption of the “debate” about the Iraq war, especially among the punditry and out on the campaign trail.
But on the ground in Iraq, where some good reporting still filters through the white noise machine of the corporate media, the picture is much different. Iraq is being eaten alive by the corruption of collaborators with the American occupation, by the relentless spead of disease and extreme privation — and of course, by continuing violence, including the increased use of civilian-slaughtering airstrikes by the “surging” American forces, and by “ethnic cleansing” and other brutal operations by terrorists and sectarian militias now in the pay of the Bush Administration.
Posted by Heatscore
A jaded Raskolnikov waiting in disgust for this sick society's imminent paradigm shift.
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“Saddam was a bad guy. I get that. That still doesn’t make Bush’s war legal or moral.
Ten days before his invasion of Iraq began, he was notified by the U.S. Intelligence agencies that the Niger Yellowcake document was a forgery.
Bush invaded a country that was no threat to our own anyway.
The murder count that Saddam was responsible for pales in comparison to the MILLION PLUS Iraqis that have died since Bush’s war began.
The women in Saddam’s Iraq were some of the most progressive women in the Middle East. Now look at their fate. In Bush’s Southern Iraq, brutality reigns. 40 bodies of women have been found. They were murdered for un-Islamic behavior.
Basra women fear militants behind wave of killings
kinda like this?
Nonstop Theft and Bribery Stagger Iraq
Jobless men pay $500 bribes to join the police. Families build houses illegally on government land, car washes steal water from public pipes, and nearly everything the government buys or sells can now be found on the black market.
~ New York Times
I thought this article was going to be about falafel.