Dogs eating bodies in the streets of Fallujah

[JackieO]

The horrendous humanitarian disaster of Fallujah drags on as the US military continues to refuse the entry of an Iraqi Red Crescent (IRC) convoy of relief supplies. The Red Crescent has appealed to the UN to intervene, but no such luck, nor does the military relent. IP’s, who are under U.S. control, have looted Fallujah General Hospital. The military stopped the Red Crescent at the gates of the city and are not allowing them in. They allowed some bodies to be buried, but others are being eaten by dogs and cats in the streets, as reported by refugees just out of the city, as well as residents still trapped there.

...Asma Khamis al-Muhannadi, a doctor who witnessed the US and Iraqi National Guard raid the general hospital said, “We were tied up and beaten despite being unarmed and having only our medical instruments.” She said the hospital was targeted by bombs and rockets during the initial siege of Fallujah, and troops dragged patients from their beds and pushed them against the wall. Al-Muhannadi went on to say that all of them were put under intense inspection and, “Two female doctors were forced to totally undress.” She continued on, “I was with a woman in labor,” she said, “The umbilical cord had not yet been cut. At that time, a US soldier shouted at one of the national guards to arrest me and tie my hands while I was helping the mother to deliver. I will never forget this incident in my life.”

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000120.php#more">Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

[Lilli]

1. link correction

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000120.php

i'm speechless...

[JackieO]

2. thank you

:(

[alittlelark]

3. I don't have any words for that

I don't know if I ever will....I clicked the Falluja in Pictures link in a thread 5 or so hours ago, and had to go for a drive.

[JackieO]

4. me either

I just feel sick... don't know what to do

[alittlelark]

5. Going for a drive helped me.

But should we really allow ourselves to be spared the emotional toll of war?

[JackieO]

6. just enough to function...

...or I'm no good for nothing.

I can't ignore it, can't dwell on it... :shrug:

I have to do zen magic tricks with my mind all day just to not explode.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

19. Here's some words: The Dogs of War

Ancient phrase, ancient phenomenon. Owners die, dogs go stray, and cooked meat is everywhere. :puke:

[burrowowl]

7. Thanks for link eom

[MountainLaurel]

8. The blood will never wash off

Our hands. :cry:

[arwalden]

9. Ha! That'll Teach Them To Knock Over Our Twin Towers!

They were all TERRORISTS. They must have deserved it. Why would GOD let it happen if they didn't deserve it? GOD is on our side. GOD tells Bush what to do and how to do it. These people are GODLESS heathens. What do we care? 9-11 changed everything.

Christianism Rules!

[SlavesandBulldozers]

12. um, i sense sarcasm in that post,

but if you knew that the chimp knows "how these people work" you would
just trust him, he knows what he's doing and its hard work, but freedom and freedom are on the line, and he will not wilt and he will not waiver and freedom cannot let freedom go away cause they are a free people who long for liberty. Ya see in their hearts they want freedom? You cant see that? Freedom is not God's gift to just the Fallujans who love freedom, freedom is God's gift to everyone - and chimp is just a vessel from which God pours freedom on top of the earth.

Get a brain.

[arwalden]

15. Oh You...

... just had to go and take away the mystery. (Sigh. Oh well.) :-)

Sometimes it's much more effective when the reader isn't sure if I'm being sarcastic or not. Then they have to THINK about it just a while longer.

Still... it's pretty frightening to realize that there are millions of "Americans" who think like that.

[SudieJD]

10. The US Soldiers Are No Better...

then the Arab's in the "beheading" videos. Scum!

Sudie in MN

[American Tragedy]

11. I want you all to pay attention to the last sentence in JackieO's post.

"I will never forget this incident in my life."

You see, terrorism is like the Hydra of Greek mythology. Heracles would slice off one head, and three more heads would instantly emerge from the wound.

And that is the cycle of violence and retaliation. Al-Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents aren't finite; you can't destroy them all. When you kill one, you inspire others to follow.

[jdj]

16. if we were being attacked, and

we got pissed and fought back, would we be called "insurgents" to?

I can't find this country, "Insurgi", anywhere on the map.

[JackieO]

18. like this guy says...

"Every decent, sane human being on this planet is an insurgent."

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/111304Chin/111304chin.html

[spanone]

13. Didn't you hear? Allawi said THERE ARE NO CIVILIAN CASUALTIES

He drinks the same kool-aid bush* does.

[RBHam]

14. It's a massacre...

plain and simple.

[lpbk2713]

17. Through most of the major wars our country has been involved in

over the years it was always a comfort to think of ourselves as the "good guys". In the light of such barbarism and barring any impartial witnesses it is apparent this is no longer so. We have become the oppressive bullies of the world. And I don't like being perceived as such.

It's ironic that is was the fundies who put Shit-for-Brains over the top in the election.......... Compassionate Conservatism?? ....... MY ASS!!

[ballcap1776]

20. kick