There is always this heavy fear I feel when talking politics..The hardest is when it comes to the relation between east and west. But still..Here I go again.
Perhaps pepole, specially in the west, thought now Iraq should enjoy democracy thanks to americans, and freedom , prosperity etc..
Why is Iraq such a bloodpool than? Is it the Iraqis ? Did I say pool?..Ocean is more accurate!..
Seriously I went crazy and yelled, when watching the news with my father not so long ago: "There will be no Iraqis left soon if they go on..I am serious!..Even the devil would have more mercy!"
The issue is complicated. Before the wars and sanctions Iraq did'nt seem at all so far away from it's neigbours Syria, Jordan and others ..There was a mix of pepole living in peace, women unveiled walking next to veiled women, happy children playing on the streets, educated , honest and simple pepole living their lives in peace fighting their bigger and smaller problems (just like other countries). Then came the wars, the sanctions...the horror...no food, no medicine, hard isolation, the horrible effects of nuclear/ chemical weapons used on iraqians that caused, according to a lot of reports, death to approx 0.5 -2 million iraqi children under 6 years..A lot of cancer diseases. And as the situation got worse, dictators fear the uprising of pepole, and the more ruthless they become..
After all that unimaginable disasters, now Iraq seem to be so far away from it's neighbours. Not alot of similarities now any more between us and them. Instead of developping this region seem to stand still some times, or let's say developp slowlier than the rest of the rest of the world, as reports from UN for example said recently. But Iraq..has undeveloppt. Developped backwards.
I remember when the latest war on Iraq started. I did'nt follow the news a lot at that time. I remember on the first days I was abroad. I rememer how disgusted I felt when a student told me he saw some other students gather in front of the news on tv with chips and soda, like it was a movie ...That was too cold! Then I remember by chance reading in a small local foreign newspapper a small article, almost in the end, where an Iraqi, who have been living abroad since many years, explained what he saw when he went there. He said two american soldiers shot down the two guards of a museum, opened it and next thing you knew priceless historical objects were gone. Some Iraqis participated in the robbery and others just stood by watching in disgust.
I could'nt beleive it!!! I just turned it over and over in my head..
And now this..
Today, specially in the western world a church is a holy place, even if the police know a dangerous criminal is hiding there they can't just automaticlly storm it..
I wonder if the western media would have been so quiet if this had happen in a churche? Specially in a non-iraqian churche mabe?
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American Heroes... I'm feeling sick- literally.I can't forget the tape shown on Aljazeera news.
The mosque strewn with bodies of Iraqis- not still with prayer or meditation, but prostrate with death- Some seemingly bloated… an old man with a younger one leaning upon him… legs, feet, hands, blood everywhere… The dusty sun filtering in through the windows… the stillness of the horrid place. Then the stillness is broken- in walk some marines, guns pointed at the bodies... the mosque resonates with harsh American voices arguing over a body- was he dead, was he alive? I watched, tense, wondering what they would do- I expected the usual Marines treatment- that a heavy, booted foot would kick the man perhaps to see if he groaned. But it didn't work that way- the crack of gunfire suddenly explodes in the mosque as the Marine fires at the seemingly dead man and then come the words, "He's dead now."
"He's dead now." He said it calmly, matter-of-factly, in a sort of sing-song voice that made my blood run cold… and the Marines around him didn't care. They just roamed around the mosque and began to drag around the corpses because, apparently, this was nothing to them. This was probably a commonplace incident."
"My little cousin flinched and dropped her spoon, face frozen with shock, eyes wide with disbelief, glued to the television screen, "Is he dead? Did they kill him?" I swallowed hard, trying to gulp away the lump lodged in my throat and watched as my cousin buried his face in his hands, ashamed to look at his daughter.
"What was I supposed to tell them?" He asked, an hour later, after we had sent his two daughters to help their grandmother in the kitchen. "What am I supposed to tell them- 'Yes darling, they killed him- the Americans killed a wounded man; they are occupying our country, killing people and we are sitting here eating, drinking and watching tv'?" He shook his head, "How much more do they have to see? What is left for them to see?"
They killed a wounded man. It's hard to believe. They killed a man who was completely helpless- like he was some sort of diseased animal. I had read the articles and heard the stories of this happening before- wounded civilians being thrown on the side of the road or shot in cold blood- but to see it happening on television is something else- it makes me crazy with anger.
And what will happen now? A criminal investigation against a single Marine who did the shooting? Just like what happened with the Abu Ghraib atrocities? A couple of people will be blamed and the whole thing will be buried under the rubble of idiotic military psychologists, defense analysts, Pentagon officials and spokespeople and it will be forgotten. In the end, all anyone will remember is that a single Marine shot and killed a single Iraqi 'insurgent' and it won't matter anymore."
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http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_riverbendblog_archive.html)
But don't let this be just vague words..It's more, so see more:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=255312 Ofcourse I hoped there will be justice. My opinion of justice was certainly not this:
| اسقاط التهمة عن عريف امريكي اجهز علي جريح عراقي في الفلوجة علي التلفزيون 2005/05/05  |
| واشنطن ـ اف ب: قالت شبكة ان بي سي الامريكية للتلفزة ان الاتهامات اسقطت عن عسكري امريكي ظهر في شريط مصور وهو يجهز علي جريح عراقي ممدد علي الارض في احد مساجد مدينة الفلوجة في تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 2004 اذ اعتبرت قيادته انه كان في موقع الدفاع عن النفس. | |
Translation: The American net NBC said accusations on an American soldier who appeared on a recorded tape killing a wounded Iraqi lieing on the floor in a mosque in Falluja in nov. 2004 were dropped because his leadership assumed that he was in a position of self defence.
This is not the end of it quiet yet. A couple of days ago I read on Aljazeera.net about an explosion in Iraq killing more than 22 iraqians, among other violent events from that place, that an extremist organisation had done, and they also called for vengence to the wounded man in the mosque.
Too bad because of technicall problems I could'nt copie and save that news.
But any way..The way I see it..Sure a violent terrorist scares and disguts me. But I saw clearly where they came from here : The politics of the same powerfull country that turned the world upside down in th name of fighting terrorism.