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As
I listen to the reports of the situation in Fallujah coming out
of Washington DC, by Bush, Rumsfeld, Gen Richard Myers and the members of the US
press who act as the Bush Cabal’s propagandists, I am brought
to tears. You see, I have been reading the international press
and many blogs that come out of Iraq, and what I read from them
is very contradictory to what the American public is being
exposed to.
The article
I read in IslamOnline, written by Sara Khorshid and titled
“Pacify Fallujah,” is right on the money from the opening
paragraph. The US has no policy in Iraq other than beat the
Iraqis down into the ground to the point that the Iraqi people
become impotent in terms of taking charge of their own affairs
and country. And in the meantime, the US forces and the
mercenaries employed by the US military will continue to savage
the people of Iraq. Gen Richard Myers will be right there attempting to convince us all
that the United Sates does not murder innocent women and
children, that women and children are being murdered in Fallujah
because the “bad” guys are using them as “human
shields.” What a crock of *&%$! They tried to use that
when this invasion started last year... it didn’t wash then,
it does not wash now!
Not only does the
United States have way to many 18-24 year old kids pulling
triggers but the number of mercenaries shooting people is
outrageous to say the least. Surrounding an entire city, cutting
off all entrances and exits to that city, cutting off the supply
of water and electricity, shooting at ambulances, literally
creating a “free fire zone” in an entire populated city,
using B-52s to carpet bomb the city, and the list goes on –
these are not the actions of a “free and democratic” country
that worries about the human condition... these are the actions
of a country that cares about nothing but its own selfish
self-interest, period.
The way I see what the
United States is doing in Fallujah alone reminds me of reading
about the way Genghis Kahn would take over a city/country: he
would have his army surround it and would send an emissary into
the city to tell its inhabitants to surrender to the Kahn or be
“razed,” become non-existent and disappear as if they never
existed. Corporal punishment at its most extreme. That is how I
view the events unfolding in Iraq and Fallujah today. And it just kills me to the very depths of my soul.
I grew up believing in
a country that for all intense and purposes no longer exists. I
know not in what country I now live... it is not the one I was
willing to serve in uniform and serve two years fighting another
war for. That country believed in the “rule of law” for all,
not just a few, and that law did not change on a daily basis to
suit the needs of those in charge; that country did not believe
in assassinations as a way of “controlling the beast”; that
country would never use mercenaries to do the dirty work under
the radar of the American public and the US Congress as it does
now; that country would not allow snipers to shoot and kill
women and children doing nothing more that attempting to flee an
area of extreme death and destruction; that country would not
deliberately create situations to allow US forces to respond
with maximum force, killing everyone in sight (Rumsfeld’s plan
to spark “terrorist” activity through forcing them to act,
triggering retaliation – like he needs an excuse or a reason).
The country that I grew
up in and believed in would have investigated the attack and
killing of the 17 innocent Iraq citizens in April of last year
in the same city the United States is now in
the process of making “disappear.” My country would not have
shut down a newspaper by force just because it was a voice of
opposition to an occupation. My country would not have used the
anger that followed as an excuse to shoot some more people. My
country would not use snipers to blow the faces off of women
that do nothing more than walk out the door to their home. My
country would not indiscriminately be dropping cluster bombs
anywhere, let alone heavily-populated cities, with the full
knowledge those bombs will ultimately kill innocents in great
numbers. My country would not allow suffering because of lack of
medicine, but would provide such relief.
But the country I find
myself in does those things and, as all know, much, much, much
more. But this is just a letter of agreement to the analysis in
Sara Khorshid’s article. It is also the letter of an American
(and a disabled Vietnam veteran) that is ashamed, to say the
least, at what this country is doing in and to Iraq and the
Iraqi people. To them I offer my deepest, heartfelt apology for
what is happening to them and their country at the hands of
mine, and I promise that I, as an individual American citizen,
will devote what life I have left in an attempt to be of some
help to end this madness. Not only for the sake of the Iraqi
people, but for the very survival of my own country... at least
for the survival of the country that I once believed in.
Jack
Dalton
Portland, Or
www.ommp.org
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