River was on a tear yesterday, the one year anniversary of the attack on her country.
The War on Terror...
I'm feeling irritable and angry today. It's exactly a year since the war on Iraq began and it seems to be weighing heavily on everyone.
We talk alot about our anger and dispair but this is someone who is living with it every day. Our Government and the right wing hacks love to tell us how well things are going and complain that the true story is not getting out.
Let's see what someone on the ground who we "liberated" has to say.
A year later and our electricity is intermittent, at best, there constantly seems to be a fuel shortage and the streets aren't safe. When we walk down those streets, on rare occasions, the faces are haggard and creased with concern... concern over family members under detention, homes raided by Americans, hungry mouths to feed, and family members to keep safe from abduction, rape and death.
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We are consistantly told by the proponents of the war that we are on our way to a stable country and the beginnings of Democracy in the middle east. Yet River does not seem to agree with this view.
We're trying to fight against the extremism that seems to be upon us like a black wave; we're wondering, on an hourly basis, how long it will take for some semblance of normality to creep back into our lives; we're hoping and praying against civil war...
...We're watching sardonically as an Iranian cleric in the south turns a once secular country into America's worst nightmare- a carbon copy of Iran. We're watching as the lies unravel slowly in front of the world- the WMD farce and the Al-Qaeda mockery
Of course there are signs that Iraq is becomming more like the current incarnation of Democracy in America.
We're watching with disbelief as American troops roam the streets of our towns and cities and break violently into our homes... we're watching with anger as the completely useless Puppet Council sits giving out fat contracts to foreigners and getting richer by the day- the same people who cared so little for their country, that they begged Bush and his cronies to wage a war that cost thousands of lives and is certain to cost thousands more
Read the whole post. While I am sure there are views contradictory to hers, it is a view that must be taken into account.
Baghdad Burning