sorry if this is a dupe, just checked in with riverbendblog

[NMDemDist2]

chilling absolutely chilling. I am so sad for those people

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The American and European news stations don't show the dying Iraqis… they don't show the women and children bandaged and bleeding- the mother looking for some sign of her son in the middle of a puddle of blood and dismembered arms and legs… they don't show you the hospitals overflowing with the dead and dying because they don't want to hurt American feelings… but people *should* see it. You should see the price of your war and occupation- it's unfair that the Americans are fighting a war thousands of kilometers from home. They get their dead in neat, tidy caskets draped with a flag and we have to gather and scrape our dead off of the floors and hope the American shrapnel and bullets left enough to make a definite identification…

One year later, and Bush has achieved what he wanted- this day will go down in history and in the memory of all Iraqis as one of the bloodiest days ever...

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

[qanda]

1. There were some earlier threads on it, but...

They always seems to sink rather rapidly. I hope this one can stay kicked, because it really is a chilling tale.

[NMDemDist2]

2. kick

:hi:

[DODI]

3. Why?

I don't understand this. What are they thinking. My sorrow is overwhelming.

[Old and In the Way]

4. So f'ing proud of my country.

I thought we had learned this lesson 30 years ago. Perhaps if the chickenhawk administration hadn't been AWOL then, they would have had a different perspective on their silly ideas of Pzax Americana.

[peacetalksforall]

5. Do you know if this blog author wrote this line?

"... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend"

It makes we want to cry.

[Jane Austin]

6. Kick

[Book Lover]

9. Yes, she did

I wrote and asked her. It's from a poem she wrote.

[stellanoir]

10. yes it was the extremely eloquent and insightful author

of that blog who wrote that line. I've been reading her blog since she was first on Salam Pax's blog briefly before the war and when she got her own (I think) in August. I continually tell anyone who dares to speak with me about Iraq, that they don't know dukey unless they read her irrefutable wisdom and heartfelt insights.

[peacetalksforall]

12. If you correspond with her could you ask if I could use that line

in my signature giving her credititation, of course, and including her URL (if she wants the attention)?

Also, do you have her poem(s)?

[kentuck]

7. Good Christians like to see a lot of good blood on Good Friday.....

These people must know that not all Americans are like George W Bush and that the Iraqis are not our enemies...

[NMDemDist2]

8. ouch Kentuck that was harsh

and i'm not even a christian

[qanda]

11. kick

:kick: