Falluja: They're eating the flowers they were supposed the toss at us.

[elehhhhna]

The doctors described the situation to me inside Fallujah. There are no safe buildings--all the houses are scarred by bullet holes and bomb damage. We are facing a humanitarian crisis. People have no shelter.

The media is also ignoring the 15,000 refugees living on the outskirts of the city. They have no shelter, and it is winter. There is also an outbreak of typhoid among the refugees.

They have no supplies of food. They were eating the flowers, but now they have nothing.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=18982&mode=nested&order=0

[Stanchetalarooni]

1. Didn't this kind of thing happen all across America back in the 1800's

I can still hear the echo of George Armstrong Custer's last official command to his troops.....LET'S ROLL!

[peacebird]

2. winter in the desert, with no food and no shelter....

and the military kicked the Red Crescent out of the area as well.

i feel sick. i am so tired of feeling sick and disgusted, but every day another atrocity gets piled on. i feel crushed under the weight of them all.

somehow today my usual retort (Hey - at least GAYS can't get married) just isn't helping me....

[elehhhhna]

3. fantasizing a mass exodus to Amsterdam helps.