Clap harder, damn you!
Jul. 13th, 2006 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockFucking christ sometimes I think it would be awfully nice to be a wingnut who can hand wave off all the hideous shit coming out of Iraq every damn day:
There was also an attack yesterday on Ghazaliya though we haven't heard what the casualties are. People are saying it's Sadr's militia, the Mahdi army, behind the killings. The news the world hears about Iraq and the situation in the country itself are wholly different. People are being driven out of their homes and areas by force and killed in the streets, and the Americans, Iranians and the Puppets talk of national conferences and progress.
It's like Baghdad is no longer one city, it's a dozen different smaller cities each infected with its own form of violence. It's gotten so that I dread sleeping because the morning always brings so much bad news. The television shows the images and the radio stations broadcast it. The newspapers show images of corpses and angry words jump out at you from their pages, "civil war… death… killing… bombing… rape…"...
...Why don't the Americans just go home? They've done enough damage and we hear talk of how things will fall apart in Iraq if they 'cut and run', but the fact is that they aren't doing anything right now. How much worse can it get? People are being killed in the streets and in their own homes- what's being done about it? Nothing. It's convenient for them- Iraqis can kill each other and they can sit by and watch the bloodshed- unless they want to join in with murder and rape.
Buses, planes and taxis leaving the country for Syria and Jordan are booked solid until the end of the summer. People are picking up and leaving en masse and most of them are planning to remain outside of the country. Life here has become unbearable because it's no longer a 'life' like people live abroad. It's simply a matter of survival, making it from one day to the next in one piece and coping with the loss of loved ones and friends...
And what does the newly elected and much touted government of Iraq have to say? Glad you asked:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's parliament speaker Thursday accused "Jews" of financing acts of violence in Iraq in order to discredit Islamists who control the parliament and government so they can install their "agents" in power.
Mahmoud al-Mashhadani hinted that the Americans and Israelis did not want to see officials of Sunni and Shi'ite parties running the country because "this is not their agenda."
"They will say that we brought you in a democratic way to the government but you are sectarian people. One of you is killing the other and you don't deserve to become leaders because you are war lords," al-Mashhadani told reporters after a parliament meeting....
"Some people say 'we saw you beheading, kidnappings and killing. In the end we even started kidnapping women who are our honor,"' al-Mashhadani said. "These acts are not the work of Iraqis. I am sure that he who does this is a Jew and the son of a Jew."
"I can tell you about these Jewish, Israelis and Zionists who are using Iraqi money and oil to frustrate the Islamic movement in Iraq and come with the agent and cheap project." ...
By "agents," he appeared to be referring to secular politicians who do not identify themselves with religious or ethnic communities.
Yeah, everything is just fuckin' fine over there. How about them newly painted schools?
Update: via Lance Mannion's blog:
In a recent comment on Brad DeLong's blog, comparing the rejection of Trotsky's "means-end" argument with rejection of the ex-Trotskyite neo-cons, Scott Martens sums it up nicely:
"If the installation of peace, democracy, human rights and international law and order requires the destruction of international law, a plethora of lies, arbitrary imprisonment and torture and open-ended war, then those means constitute strong grounds for scepticism towards the stated ends."
And by the way, Saddam isn't gone yet.
Posted by: Ken Muldrew
There was also an attack yesterday on Ghazaliya though we haven't heard what the casualties are. People are saying it's Sadr's militia, the Mahdi army, behind the killings. The news the world hears about Iraq and the situation in the country itself are wholly different. People are being driven out of their homes and areas by force and killed in the streets, and the Americans, Iranians and the Puppets talk of national conferences and progress.
It's like Baghdad is no longer one city, it's a dozen different smaller cities each infected with its own form of violence. It's gotten so that I dread sleeping because the morning always brings so much bad news. The television shows the images and the radio stations broadcast it. The newspapers show images of corpses and angry words jump out at you from their pages, "civil war… death… killing… bombing… rape…"...
...Why don't the Americans just go home? They've done enough damage and we hear talk of how things will fall apart in Iraq if they 'cut and run', but the fact is that they aren't doing anything right now. How much worse can it get? People are being killed in the streets and in their own homes- what's being done about it? Nothing. It's convenient for them- Iraqis can kill each other and they can sit by and watch the bloodshed- unless they want to join in with murder and rape.
Buses, planes and taxis leaving the country for Syria and Jordan are booked solid until the end of the summer. People are picking up and leaving en masse and most of them are planning to remain outside of the country. Life here has become unbearable because it's no longer a 'life' like people live abroad. It's simply a matter of survival, making it from one day to the next in one piece and coping with the loss of loved ones and friends...
And what does the newly elected and much touted government of Iraq have to say? Glad you asked:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's parliament speaker Thursday accused "Jews" of financing acts of violence in Iraq in order to discredit Islamists who control the parliament and government so they can install their "agents" in power.
Mahmoud al-Mashhadani hinted that the Americans and Israelis did not want to see officials of Sunni and Shi'ite parties running the country because "this is not their agenda."
"They will say that we brought you in a democratic way to the government but you are sectarian people. One of you is killing the other and you don't deserve to become leaders because you are war lords," al-Mashhadani told reporters after a parliament meeting....
"Some people say 'we saw you beheading, kidnappings and killing. In the end we even started kidnapping women who are our honor,"' al-Mashhadani said. "These acts are not the work of Iraqis. I am sure that he who does this is a Jew and the son of a Jew."
"I can tell you about these Jewish, Israelis and Zionists who are using Iraqi money and oil to frustrate the Islamic movement in Iraq and come with the agent and cheap project." ...
By "agents," he appeared to be referring to secular politicians who do not identify themselves with religious or ethnic communities.
Yeah, everything is just fuckin' fine over there. How about them newly painted schools?
Update: via Lance Mannion's blog:
In a recent comment on Brad DeLong's blog, comparing the rejection of Trotsky's "means-end" argument with rejection of the ex-Trotskyite neo-cons, Scott Martens sums it up nicely:
"If the installation of peace, democracy, human rights and international law and order requires the destruction of international law, a plethora of lies, arbitrary imprisonment and torture and open-ended war, then those means constitute strong grounds for scepticism towards the stated ends."
And by the way, Saddam isn't gone yet.
Posted by: Ken Muldrew
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Date: 2006-07-13 11:11 pm (UTC)Now the neo-cons and Pentagon types are trying to figure out how to salvage this mess. They can’t move back into Saudi, they can’t invade Iran and the cannot stabilize Iraq. They don’t realize how they fucked up even their own designs. ‘Gee. How did that bullet wind up in my foot?’
“Iraq's parliament speaker Thursday accused "Jews" of financing acts of violence in Iraq in order to discredit Islamists who control the parliament and government so they can install their "agents" in power.”
I’ve been hearing this fascist talk more and more, both domestically and internationally. It doesn’t surprise me but it should be a major wake-up call. I guess I shouldn’t expect this one after all the other wake-up calls that have gone by.
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Date: 2006-07-13 11:29 pm (UTC)