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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Coming Soon: Death Squads in Iraq

Posted by Mickey Z on 01/13 at 02:46 PM

  1. I pretty much disagree with Mlle. Merchant.  It’s precisely for the things we DON’T know our Solons in Washington do that “they” should not ever forgive us.

    You know full well why “they” hate us: You and I hate “us” for the same reasons.  Most chilling thing in article:

    “A US military official, who agreed with this assessment, told Newsweek: ‘The Sunni population is paying no price for the support it is giving to the terrorists. From their point of view, it is cost-free. We have to change that equation.’”

    And just who asked us to butt in in the first place?  Why are billions of taxpayer dollars going to this effort?  I care nothing at all for the Iraqi people, not a jot or tittle of anything other than the vaguest sympathy I extend to all living beings, including factory-farmed yummy dinner animals; I certainly don’t want any American to go without healthcare because we’re shipping billions to a place that will suck up every dollar and return zero to the relevant taxpayers except body bags.

    We get to the same place, I suppose, but by very different roads.

    Posted by Richard  on  from The great Red State of Texas, blech 01/13  at  03:23 PM

  2. Joe from Maine sent me the following response and asked me to post it:

    Why do they hate us?...this question is particular interesting to me at this
    time, Mickey. I have sent some commentaries over the Maine Peace and Justice
    email community. I asked the question, “are we who we would prefer others to
    be”?

    I have come together at activist meetings, the common link, politics or some
    social issue. Yet, I see people not interested in saying hello to anyone.
    People not willing to engage, bonding more closely as humans.

    With the emergency proportions of our current dilemma, I have no idea how to
    help people come out from behind their ‘invisible barriers’ of distrust,
    skepticism, fear that is owned like a second skin.

    As long as people allow the authorities to ‘own’ them through manipulations,
    I am very pessimistic about many things and about activists. It seems
    americans never learn, or gain insight into what makes them tick, and their
    relations to others, holding on to old attitudes, universal responses, not
    conscious decisions. A new paradigm cannot occur if we practice old
    behavior/thoughts, recreating what we don’t want.

    Posted by Mickey Z.  on  from 01/13  at  04:19 PM

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