Get Out Now, by John Pilger

[TreasonousBastard]

Get Out Now

Iraq - Invaders have ripped up the fabric of a nation that survived Saddam Hussein. This is a war of liberation and we are the enemy. By John Pilger


Four years ago, I travelled the length of Iraq, from the hills where St Matthew is buried in the Kurdish north to the heartland of Mesopotamia, and Baghdad, and the Shia south. I have seldom felt as safe in any country. Once, in the Edwardian colonnade of Baghdad's book market, a young man shouted something at me about the hardship his family had been forced to endure under the embargo imposed by America and Britain. What happened next was typical of Iraqis; a passer-by calmed the man, putting his arm around his shoulder, while another was quickly at my side. "Forgive him," he said reassuringly. "We do not connect the people of the west with the actions of their governments. You are welcome."

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Were I to undertake the same journey in Iraq today, I might not return alive. Foreign terrorists have ensured that. With the most lethal weapons that billions of dollars can buy, and the threats of their cowboy generals and the panic-stricken brutality of their foot soldiers, more than 120,000 of these invaders have ripped up the fabric of a nation that survived the years of Saddam Hussein, just as they oversaw the destruction of its artefacts. They have brought to Iraq a daily, murderous violence which surpasses that of a tyrant who never promised a fake democracy.

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http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/nscoverstory.htm

[Raster]

1. the U.S. will never leave on it's own volition....

...the neocons consider Iraq the prize and we--supposedly--are the winners. Iraq's oil is the grand prize and we lied, cheated, stole and, increasingly, killed to get it. Even though the situation worsens by each passing hour, the neocon fucks consider themselves above science, logic and truth. "Full speed forward" seems to be the neocon rallying cry.