OWNERS OF THE WAR ARE WINNERS
serwad
By Judith Moriarty
noahs...@adelphia.net
6-12-6
This morning, listening to C-Span, I was sickened at the inhumane
remarks made by callers from across the country (both parties). I would
estimate that 90% of the people had no problem with the recent massacre of
civilians in Haditha. It was apparent, listening to their comments that few
had bothered to read the initial accounts of this massacre. There was the
usual lionizing of the military fighting for peace, justice and the
American way.
Haditha: A roadside bomb went off at 7:15 a.m. as local families
were preparing for the day. They had the bad luck of living adjacent to this
incident which killed a Marine. Immediately afterwards, Marines stormed the
house directly across from the attack, shooting as they approached though
there was no gunfire from any of the homes.
A video shot by a local journalism student shows the bloody
aftermath of what happened. Inside this home (the first one) was a 76 year
old blind man in a wheelchair and his 66 year old wife and nine of their
sons, daughters- in laws and grandchildren. The Corner's report obtained
by NBC News reported that the wheelchair bound, blind mean was shot in the
stomach and head. The wife and five other relatives were killed by multiple
gunshot wounds.
Ten year old Iman, who survived, told news reporters "The Americans
came into the room where my father was praying and shot him. They went to my
grandmother and killed her, too," Iman says. During this raid the house
caught fire when a propane tank in the kitchen blew up. Marines then moved
next door. Nine people were inside, and eight were killed, five of them
children. Twelve year old Safa says she hid under the bed. "They came in and
shot all of us", she says, "I pretended I was dead".
Marines then moved to a third location a taxi parked by the side
of the road. In it, were four university students and a driver. A witness
watching from a nearby rooftop says Marines took the five men out of the car
and executed them. The driver was screaming in English, "Please!, please!"
but they shot him in the body.
At approximately 10:30 a.m., Marines stormed the house of Eid Ahmed,
where they separated his four sons from the women and children before
killing the men. Nine year old Khalid was in the house. "This is my
father!" he screamed, "God will take my revenge!" Note: And we wonder how
terrorists are made (JM)
If not for the story in Time magazine, months after this event, it
is doubtful it would have come to light. The first reports from the Marines,
were that these civilians had died when the roadside bomb went off.
Afterwards the story changed. It was then reported that they were being
fired upon from these homes and fired back. Investigations proved that
this didn't happen, as the bullet holes were all within the homes, and not
on the outer walls.
Citizens calling into C-Span were as cold blooded, as those who
participated in this alleged attack on civilians. They casually, some
vindictively stated; "This is war, things like this happen, everybody is
the enemy, including women and children, our troops have to protect
themselves." The tragic thing is, this event happened to get news coverage,
most don't, including whole families shot up at road blocks and the massacre
at Fallujah (no media coverage) where males from 15 -65 were not permitted
to leave the city.
Thousands of Iraqi citizens in Fallujah died in the midst of napalm,
bombing and phosphorous weaponry. Bodies were found charred and melted; with
the newest annihilating inventiveness of civilized man! With the Geneva
Convention mocked by top officials, as being "archaic", the way has been
paved for all kinds of mayhem. The torture, humiliation, and deaths at Abu
Ghraib, were for the most part, reported by the American media, as nothing
more than hazing! In this situation only a few grunts were held
accountable! Whatever the horror story, over and over, we are given the "bad
apple theory". It seems apparent, that in this impossible madhouse of
slaughter, this barrel of apples is now fermenting. While there are
(obvious) sociopaths in ALL walks of life; from politicians to your local
minister, the theater of war is a Disney world of delight for these
soulless ones, permitted to kill legally?
Marine General, Smedley Butler, a 34 year veteran of wars, stated
upon his retirement, "All war is a racket". He went on to explain that he
until he was out of the service; he never had an individual thought, but
just followed orders. One can never excuse indiscriminate slaughter, but you
can understand how it can happen. Men removed from the 'civilized' world;
and thrust into a desert land thousands of miles from home, certainly don't
have the option of quitting or calling their representative! Like any
organized group of people; be it doctors, lawyers, politicians, police, the
workplace or the military there's an unspoken code that the group mind
rules! Rare is the person (sad to say) who will step outside this cult like
obedience, should anything untoward occur. People basically have a herd
instinct, fearful of facing the wrath, vindictiveness, and isolation of
being set apart from the group. Many may not participate and be quite
outraged at some of the things they witness but they remain silent
nevertheless and therefore accomplices. The military (and police) are
especially close knit groups with a special bonding taking place. They
depend on each other for their very lives. The whistleblower is seen as a
'traitor'. Society bears this out, when time and time again, you read of the
person who reported such and such a wrong in the
workplace/government/medical etc; being fired from their jobs and black
balled!
Muslim cleric Abdul Al Kabaissi stated, "The situation has
reached a level when the U.S. soldier becomes a professional killer, who
kills with premeditation and deliberation". It is simply comedic theater,
to watch politicians or these paid 'expert' talking heads, who spend the
days of their lives, in protected gilded environments, giving their talking
points on the inhumanities of war. War, plain and simple, turns ordinary
people into barbarians it's the nature of the beast; when death and melted
flesh are daily events! FEAR has the soldier shooting, killing and
destroying all who threaten his existence! You don't experience this fly
fishing, on a private hunting preserve, bike riding in Crawford, or slurping
it up, in some Georgetown restaurant! Hell, someone drops a hammer in the
Capitol, and the Suits go scurrying like rats deserting a ship.
None of the callers to C-Span, it appeared, were able to relate to
the terrible ordeal that the Iraqi people are being subjected to. They are
not safe in their homes preparing breakfast, not safe on their farms (Ali
had his arms blown off), not safe in the Mosque or marketplace. Food, fuel,
and electricity are in short supply in the scorching desert heat. Their
culture was destroyed, on the first days of 'Shock and Awe', when museums,
schools, and libraries were allowed to be looted of their antiquities or
destroyed. Rumsfeld remarked "Stuff happens". With an attitude like that in
leadership is it any wonder that this surreal landscape, of a Salvador
Dali painting, resembles a maniacal video arcade with no exit door! Every
moment is a Dante's Inferno.
The answer to the massacre at Haditha; is to institute seminars on
ethics! Is it any wonder that thousands returning from war are mentally
unhinged? How do you train youth from impoverished America (the elite don't
do war ask Cheney), to kill in the morning and then teach 'ethical'
killing in the afternoon? I fear we're creating a generation of
schizophrenics! Many returning from this bloodlust are supposed to return
to their, once upon a time suburban or rural environments, and live happily
ever after! Only thing is, once men and women have been in the midst of
war they are forever changed. War opens a dark chamber in the recesses of
man's psyche of the 'Silent Scream' that goes on forever.
It is my opinion that many give no thought to the war at all. I've
met them. When I have attempted to broach it with them, all I hear is "they
should kill all those rag heads and turn the place to glass nuke'em
that's what we should do". I once thought that if the war was brought closer
to home outside the media propaganda, that there would be an outcry of one
accord, to stop all war. I thought, if only they were witness to the
children, shredded and traumatized in the name of democracy they would care.
I don't think that way anymore. Ownership of an ideology no matter how
perverse; blinds men to truth. They adherents to war, and all its 'glory';
own the crazed youth shooting up Iraqi homes, the dogs set on terrified
prisoners (caught up in village sweeps), the terror stricken children, the
weapons that melt flesh from bone, the blind man in his wheelchair (not
seeing his end coming), the pulverized cities, the poisoned land/water
(depleted uranium), the grotesquely deformed babies, the limbless soldier,
grasping his tarnished medals, the multitudes of gravestones, the echo of
taps, on a mountain top in Vermont, and the empty tortured eyes of the
conqueror and conquered ones unable to speak of that which is ever before
them.
patriot
!!!!!!!
glugg
serwad wrote:
> The Owners Of War
> By Judith Moriarty
> noahs...@adelphia.net
> 6-12-6
>
>
> This morning, listening to C-Span, I was sickened at the inhumane
> remarks made by callers from across the country (both parties). I would
> estimate that 90% of the people had no problem with the recent massacre of
> civilians in Haditha.
During WW2 Americans were angry and used all sorts of acts of
hate and racist language against the Japanese and Germans.
The people were in war mode as we are now. This is the killing time.
Justice will be achieved when the moslem regrets 9/11.
serwad
"glugg" <glug...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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JUSTICE WILL BE ACHIEVED WHEN THEY PUT THOSE THEY ARE HOLDING ON TRIAL AND
WE ALL LEARN THE TRUTH. YOU DO NOT KNOW THE TRUTH, AND I DO NOT BELIEVE YOUR
TRUTH!
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