Topic is all about and meant to be expressing the anger of of the war.
Say whatever.
No matter what is said, to me is still horror as I imagine myself and my child living it.
Unholy.
self serving.
AAG, this war against Iraq is immoral and recent statements by US officials and WMD experts have only proven what millions of ordinary citizens have been stating all along that their was NO JUSTIFICATION for war in the first place. Some of the horrors of this war were witnessed by two Iraqi women, article shown below.
IRAQI WOMEN DESCRIBE HORRORS OF WAR Peace Women Nov 2003
November 2003 – (Contra Costa Times) Two Iraqi women who lived through the U.S.-led war on their country are touring the Bay Area this week to describe to anyone who will listen the horrors they have seen and to demand that U.S. troops immediately go home.
Relaxing in a Berkeley cafe Wednesday after a full day of media interviews, Baghdad residents Amal Khedairy and Nermin Mufti were still livid as they remembered friends and relatives recently killed by U.S. troops or kidnapped by Iraqi outlaws. They also bitterly recounted the daily indignities they have suffered living in a city filled with nervous U.S. soldiers who have closed off main traffic arteries and filled the streets with tanks. They expressed less dismay over bombings carried out by those fighting U.S. forces.
“‘Angry’ is a very small word for how I feel,” Mufti said with intense eyes emphasizing her point. “What would you do if I came over from Iraq and knocked down your door and took away your loved ones? You would fight back.” Their tour – part of a three-month trip in the United States – was organized by the nonprofit U.S. group Fellowship of Reconciliation to promote dialogue between ordinary Americans and Iraqis and to challenge what the women said were misconceptions Americans have about Iraqis.
Earlier this month, the two professional, middle-aged women met with U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, in Washington and have spoken to peace activists, students and religious groups, among others. They appeared at Mills College in Oakland on Wednesday and at the First Congregational Church of Oakland on Thursday.
Although dialogue was the stated goal of their trip, their still-simmering anger at the United States was unmistakable. During the war, an anguished Khedairy appeared on the front page of the New York Times after the arts and cultural center that she founded and ran in Baghdad was destroyed by U.S. bombs. Mufti is a journalist who writes for Iraqi publications. Khedairy, who attended college in the United Kingdom, said she has found Americans generous and curious about the situation in Iraq, and the two women stressed they were furious at the U.S. government, not its people. This is their first trip to the United States.
However, Khedairy could not conceal the raw emotion she felt underneath the soothing words. “How could (Americans) allow their Congress to vote for war?” she asked. “No, I don’t understand. You have everything. Why send your boys to do this massacre? At least, think of your boys.” She described the outbreak of the war and the massive U.S. bombing campaign watched by television viewers worldwide as “like hell opening its gates almost.” “We could hear the cluster bombs falling,” she said. “We could only sit and listen. What else could we do?”
Last week, Bush administration officials argued that the U.S.-led attack on Iraq was part of a worldwide attempt to spread democracy, dropping past emphasis on what they said was deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s dangerous arsenal of unconventional weapons. None of those weapons has yet been found. Mufti, a single mother raising a 20-year-old son, wasn’t buying the administration’s argument.
“You think President Bush loved Iraq in this way and liberated me from Saddam?” she asked. “This war was for the rich people here.” She said Saddam was “horrible” but “he provided security.” “Saddam was Iraqi, and you could manage him,” Mufti said. “He was finished anyway. He was on his way out.”
She described the wave of attacks against U.S. and European soldiers as a “genuine Iraqi resistance,” not solely the work of Baath Party loyalists as U.S. officials have portrayed it. She added, however, that her country had become a place where “every account against the United States is being settled now” by foreign fighters.The two women said the United States should relinquish authority over Iraq to the United Nations and pull its troops out.
This war will not end until the American people kick out the war mongers from power...