Dahr Jamail: Two “Green Zones”

[Barrett808]

As the US-backed Iraqi puppet government flails about arguing over the so-called constitution, Iraq remains in a state of complete anarchy. There is no government control whatsoever, even inside the infamous “Green Zone” where the puppets seem to have tangled their strings.

Why the harsh tone for the conflagrations of the so-called Iraqi government?

Because the price paid for this unimaginably huge misadventure of the neo-conservative driven Bush junta is being paid by real human beings who shed real blood and cry real tears. Because well over 100,000 Iraqis and over 1,800 US soldiers would be alive today if it wasn’t for the puppeteers of Mr. Bush.

The coward sits behind his guards in Crawford, Texas, too afraid to deal with the reality of the grief he and his masters have caused to thousands of military families who have lost loved ones in Iraq. Meanwhile, fires are raging out of control not only in Iraq, but right here in the US.

“I ask you, Mr Bush, if you believe that this war is for “Our Freedom” and “Our Values” why don’t you send your daughters to fight for freedom,” wrote Fernando Suarez del Solar recently, who lost his son in Iraq due to the lies of Mr. Bush.

He continued, “Why don’t your closest associates send their children to defend these values? Why are the children of immigrant families dying? Why are children from working families who are the least privileged dying? Why Mr. Bush? Why?”

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http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000272.php

[scarletwoman]

1. Nominated! I'm glad to see Dahr still posting the truth.

more from this piece:

And there is a reason why soldiers like Nicolas Prubyla come home and join organizations like Iraq Veterans Against the War.

“Up until five days ago, I had large amounts of blood in my stool,” he told me recently, “I’ve felt tired all the time, I have had loss of hair…loss of the feeling in my right arm…I’m battling this stuff.”

What he is battling is exposure to uranium munitions in Iraq. He is battling radiation sickness as the result of the most recent nuclear war waged by the United States of America. There is a reason why over 11,000 veterans from the ’91 Gulf War are dead today, and over 250,000 others are on medical disability. That reason (hundreds and hundreds of tons of uranium munitions dropped on Iraq) is the same thing Prubyla is battling today.

“As the years go on this is going to effect a hell of a lot more people than we think…radioactive dust and the clouds of smoke and dust from firing the DU is getting to us now,” he said, “And I know I’m not the only person in my unit-my boss got diagnosed with cancer, one of my other buddies who is 23 years-old is getting rashes….every time I do more research on DU-I’m seeing that I have all the side effects.”

Prubyla has realized what more and more veterans understand…that the powers that be in our military plutocracy (also known as the US government) could care less for their well being. One of the shadow members of the current plutocracy who is also an exalted neo-conservative, Henry Kissinger, has referred to military men as “dumb, stupid animals to be used” as pawns for foreign policy.

[Eloriel]

7. OMG. That makes me want to lose my breakfast, that DU stuff

It absolutely breaks my heart. That was one of the big reasons I was against this war from the get-go -- certainly not the main reason, but still a significant one.

Unconscionable.

[Maat]

2. Wow. That was great.

I subscribed to his email list.

[rodeodance]

3. guess Gen.. Myers had one of these selected meet-ups when he

was there last week---.

......I get emails daily from sources throughout Iraq…both Iraqi and American. Even inside US bases in the newest colony things don’t seem to be going so well, according to an American man who is working there as support.

“I don’t know how much longer I can stand working for these idiots and their brothers’ mothers’ sisters’ cousin,” he wrote me recently, “They have acres of armored air conditioned trucks but won’t pay to fix the alternators, so the drivers must use the worst of the equipment…no armor, no air conditioning…You know the heat here, now add the heat of an engine to that cab and throw in a few rockets, mortars, and IED’s and it makes for a very bad day. I’m trying to expose the corruption of the Third Country National contractors by finding them a forum to send the truth. Prisoners, slaves, concubines. My life may be a contradiction, but I will not compromise with evil. The enemy is inside the wire.”

Wars for empire don’t change…and Iraq is the perfect example. Invading armies using slave labor (foreign in this case due to their deep distrust of Iraqis), taking advantage of those who lack privilege, the poor, minorities, to do the dirty work while the top 1% make more money than ever before.

And the pirates behind the US policy-making in Iraq have chosen, perhaps to their chagrin at this point, to disregard some of the latest history from a past occupation of Iraq........

[beetbox]

4. Maybe post this quote in GD? Very telling

I don’t know how much longer I can stand working for these idiots and their brothers’ mothers’ sisters’ cousin,” he wrote me recently, “They have acres of armored air conditioned trucks but won’t pay to fix the alternators, so the drivers must use the worst of the equipment…no armor, no air conditioning…You know the heat here, now add the heat of an engine to that cab and throw in a few rockets, mortars, and IED’s and it makes for a very bad day. I’m trying to expose the corruption of the Third Country National contractors by finding them a forum to send the truth. Prisoners, slaves, concubines. My life may be a contradiction, but I will not compromise with evil. The enemy is inside the wire.”

[inchhigh]

5. The perfect follow up to Cindy's question

"“I ask you, Mr Bush, if you believe that this war is for “Our Freedom” and “Our Values” why don’t you send your daughters to fight for freedom,” "

Perhaps you don't belive in "Our Values" so much after all?

[ooglymoogly]

6. kick n nom...henry kissinger is a nazi pig

praying for another hitler and working to reinvest life into the third reich.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. why don’t you send your daughters to fight for freedom?

Exactly. Jen and Babs should be enlisting right now for assignment to Iraq. Put up or shut up Mr. Bush. My sons aren't going until your daughters are there.

[reprehensor]

9. Depleted Uranium: An Introduction.

It's the Agent Orange of our generation. Only, it's worse.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4124449