Ball of Confusion

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http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17195

"Oh, Great Googamooga, can't you hear me talking to you
just a ball of confusion, oh yeah
that's what the world is today, hey"
– The Temptations, "Ball of Confusion"

"With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are crying..."
– The Cranberries, "Zombie"

On Wednesday, November 12, U.S. forces resumed their bombing campaign in Baghdad. The target was a warehouse supposedly used by insurgents, and the blasts "set off explosions that reverberated through the Iraqi capital," according to the Associated Press. Following recent US strikes in Tikrit, the Baghdad bombing was aimed at "a known meeting, planning, storage and rendezvous point for belligerent elements currently conducting attacks on coalition forces and infrastructure," the Pentagon said in a statement. Now that bombing has resumed, do you suppose President Bush will retrace his steps back to the deck of USS Abraham Lincoln and declare that the battle has been re-engaged?

The resumption of US bombing may have been what the top American military commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, meant when a day or so earlier he spoke of a "turning point" in the war. According to The New York Times, Lt. Gen. Sanchez "outlined a new get-tough approach to combat operations in areas north and west of Baghdad, strongholds for loyalists of Saddam Hussein."

Lt. Gen. Sanchez made his remarks before news broke of a truck bombing at the headquarters of Italy's paramilitary police in the southern city of Nasiriyah, which killed 31, including 18 Italians, and wounded dozens more.

(By the way, the Pentagon would like to assure you that its bombing raids are precision strikes and no civilians are hurt or killed. And, if there is a little collateral damage along the way, the Pentagon also wants you to know that it's not in the business of keeping a count of those killed. Unlike the Pentagon, however, a recent report by The Project on Defense Alternatives made it its business to investigate the Iraqi body count. The PDA's report "estimated that 13,000 Iraqis, including as many as 4,300 non-combatants, were killed during the major combat phase of the war in Iraq."

What's goin' on?

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[Karenina]

1. What's goin' on?

No response. The warehouse was a textile factory, U.S. Command Officers are foaming-at-the-mouth cult freaks and a shitload of human beings are dying daily... Brought to you courtesy of some MUCH-TOO-RICH and destructive folks who have their heads up their asses.

[NNN0LHI]

2. "What's goin' on?" No one knows "What's goin' on". Thats the problem n/t