Obama in an electioneering speech says his administration is determined to help servicemen, veterans and their families with their economic and health care needs as conflicts overseas end or wind down and they return to the nation they have served. Got the health care reference in ok but he forgot to mention the civilian families, numbering hundreds of thousands, who suffered from the US-led invasion. Did he pledge any help to those Iraqi families whose children have been born deformed as a result of Depleted Uranium in Fallujah?
Clifton - King of the South. King of the Bayous. King of the Zydeco. Listen.
Clifton Chenier – Let the Good Times Roll
“The caller spoke with an Iraqi accent and told me that Mazen was in Iraq and that he sent his best regards. I stoically listened and left the matter in God’s hands. I then informed the interior ministry about my son being in Iraq and the phone call,” he told the daily.
The father said that for the next ten months, he received written missives from Mazen and his friends and that he heard news about him intermittently.
From the news, he pieced his son’s life in Iraq and learned that he got married and had two children.
“Then, there was nothing from or about Mazen and one day his brother-in-law told us that the Iraqi authorities arrested him on charges of terrorism,” he said. MORE
Hey, US suburbia. Those Blackhawks are coming to a town near you. Feel safer?
Police and medical officials said Monday the gunmen shot dead Brig. Gen. Abdul-Muhsen Khazal in the Sunni town of Taji, just north of the capital.
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| FALL OF ICARUS - BREUGHEL |
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well, they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
Iraq was neither implicated in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, nor was it threatening to attack any neighbouring country. In October 2004, the CIA's Iraq Survey Group reported with finality that while Saddam Hussein had harboured ambitions to get weapons of mass destruction, the Iraqi programs to build them had decayed completely. UN sanctions had helped to dismantle them and UN inspections had given an accurate assessment of Saddam's WMD non-capability.
Against this backdrop, Australia needs to conduct an honest and independent inquiry to establish why the country was taken to war in 2003.
His name is Frank Wuterich. He said he would do the same again including the killing of children. Movie in the pipeline - Heroes of Haditha? Kathryn Bigelow could make it.
Marine convicted of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians honoured in Conn. | CTVNews:
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| Frank Wuterich Did This |
Au Maroc, on aime dire que la monarchie ne fait pas débat. Pourtant cet archaïsme humiliant pour les hommes fait presque unanimité, même les monarchistes les plus purs le trouvent indigne. Il suffit de l’évoquer entre amis et en famille et les langues se délient. Un signe qui ne trompe pas, lorsque la rumeur de l’annulation de la cérémonie se répandit, beaucoup sont « sortis du placard » exprimant leur soulagement de l’abolition de cet archaïsme venu d’un autre siècle.
Manos Duras. Mambomania. Premiero Congalero Del Mundo.Barrettoooooooooo........
Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima' - Middle East - World - The Independent:
If 'Iraq' is on the front of Tony Blair's gravestone, 'Fallujah' will be on the back of it.
The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;—
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,
Whose charms were broken if revealed.
And days may pass in gay confusion,
And nights in rosy riot fly,
While, lost in Fame’s or Wealth’s illusion,
The memory of the Past may die.
But there are hours of lonely musing,
Such as in evening silence come,
When, soft as birds their pinions closing,
The heart’s best feelings gather home.
Then in our souls there seems to languish
A tender grief that is not woe;
And thoughts that once wrung groans of anguish
Now cause but some mild tears to flow.
And feelings, once as strong as passions,
Float softly back—a faded dream;
Our own sharp griefs and wild sensations,
The tale of others’ sufferings seem.
Oh! when the heart is freshly bleeding,
How longs it for that time to be,
When, through the mist of years receding,47
Poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë
Its woes but live in reverie!
And it can dwell on moonlight glimmer,
On evening shade and loneliness;
And, while the sky grows dim and dimmer,
Feel no untold and strange distress—
Only a deeper impulse given
By lonely hour and darkened room,
To solemn thoughts that soar to heaven
Seeking a life and world to come.
Iran described Israel as 'a tumour' today. This will be reported as anti-semitism or some such nonsense in the MSM later. But I know where they are coming from. A report yesterday indicated that most Israelis don't want Netanyahu's warmongering. Amply supported by the US and the assorted lackeys who we won't name (Hi, Hague. Hi, Gillard).
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