No this isn't about the end of the world series popular in la la land.
It's about some people in Iraq that may or may not be alive, trapped in rubble and waiting for help that isn't coming, and apparently never was.
The record for finding a survivor trapped in a collapse, due to an earthquake, is 14 days.
It's only been a week since truck bombings killed over three hundred and left over two hundred unaccounted for in Qahtaniya and Adnaniya. If anyone was actively engaged in trying to recover survivors from the carnage, there might still be time to save someone.
If anyone would just begin to look for survivors there might still be time.
As sad and horrifying as the truth is, they will be left to die.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...
Colonel Najim Abdullah, the governor of Tal Afar, said there were insufficient resources to continue searching for people among the ruins of Qahtaniya and Adnaniya, two villages devastated by multiple truck bombings last Tuesday.
Up to 200 people are still thought to be unaccounted for, taking the death toll past 500. The victims were mainly members of the Yazidi minority sect, which has made its home around the Sinjar mountains, close to the border with Syria.
"We do not have the real potential to tackle the problem," said Abdullah. "If we are not even able to provide residents with ration cards, how can we save them now under the rubble?"
Well....
Am I crazy to think you should at least try? Do you think that Mr. Najim Abdullah would write another letter to his friends the Americans and ask for their help to extricate victims, if the victims were Sunnis like himself, instead of Kurds?
A letter like this:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...
Sure, I mistrust anyone that seems to be aligned with the Bush administration, be they Iraqi or American or whatever. Is it a leap to say that the religion these trapped people follow condemn them to remain in the rubble?
Of course, those ultimately responsible are far removed from the scene, and probably don't think too much on this tragedy.
George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the enablers of Congress.
Hope your enjoying your vacations, don't trouble your beautiful minds with this non issue. If anyone is alive, they'll be dead soon, and in the enormous scope of horror you have created this will be merely a footnote.
My ugly mind on the other hand, will never be able to understand this.