A great piece of writing...
"Felicity Arbuthnot: April 9th"
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?” -- Mohandas K. Ghandi, 'Non-Violence and Peace and War', 1948.
Iraqis have had yet another western insult imposed upon them: the fifth anniversary of “liberation” and the shameful, staged toppling of the statue of President Saddam Hussein, the face covered by an American flag, by a US marine. A flag, the world was told, which had been rescued from the Twin Towers. Like the alleged hijacker's passport ( the latter presumably chucked from the 'plane before impact) the flag too, survived an inferno that melted steel. The Pentagon PR machine must have burned a lot of midnight oil dreaming up that rubbish. The statue's fall began the systematic destruction and erasure of the history of Mesopotamia and our humanity, ancient and modern.
Whilst government and media, predominantly American and British, feel the need to mark this sixty month holocaust, every day is an April 9th for Iraqis.
Lives, homes, families smashed, fallen, fragmented, ruined. Overnight, Iraqis became the new Palestinians, the world's new diaspora, fleeing internally and externally, with just what they could carry or load into a vehicle and for many, their travel documents worthless - and if not worthless, unwelcomed by most countries. Just Syria and Jordan took in their neighbours, as those who had burned their house down both refused to reimburse either them, or the good Samaritans who had helped them. For Palestinians who had lived in Iraq, some since Israel's foundation and their flight under near-identical circumstances sixty years ago, the terror returned and they again became stateless, many trapped in no man's lands on the Syrian and Jordanian borders, or slaughtered in their homes or the makeshift camps to which they had fled.
Ironically, April 9th is also the sixtieth anniversary of the Israeli's slaughter of the villagers of Deir Yassin in Palestine, which was: “Bit by bit, submerged in to a hell of screams, exploding grenades, the stench of blood, gunpowder and smoke. The assailants killed, looted and finally, they raped.”(1) The bloody carnage rained on the families of Deir Yassin was code named “Operation Unity”; that rained on Iraq's entirety, in a mirror image, was “Operation Iraqi Freedom”.
Also see: Deir Yassin Revisited
As Israel embarks on its sixtieth birthday celebrations, an Iraqi friend, a globally acknowledged oil expert, sought by companies and governments, worldwide, telephoned. “You must stop saying that the Iraq invasion was primarily driven by its oil”, he said. “There were three paramount reasons for the invasion: ‘Israel, Israel and Israel’ .”
That Iraq had oil and water in abundance, was a vital, but secondary bonus, in his opinion. Saddam Hussein's unwavering support for Palestine was the paramount driving force, he believed. Support by the Iraqis for Palestine, goes back to Israel's inception, where they fought with the Palestinians. As the current intifada raged, prior to the invasion, it was said every house in Baghdad had at least one son who planned to fight the Israelis in Palestine. Saddam Hussein gave money in the support of families who had lost a bread winner, become a suicide bomber. Shocking to most western heads, but who was it who queried the difference “between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber”?
Israel, it is well recorded, trained American troops ahead of the Iraq invasion and Israeli tactics became near instantly recognisable: social divisions, house demolitions, trashings, thefts, destruction of municipal and governmental offices and finally, whole communities divided by walls, walled in where all had co-existed for generations. It is now equally well recorded how many Israelis in Iraq are wearing American army uniforms.
Like Palestine, families are scattered to the global winds. Random calls to Iraqi friends and acquaintances were eye watering. Their family homes lie empty, destroyed or taken over - generations of love lavished on them in ruins, precious inherited items lost forever...."
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I don't know about you, readers, but there go the waterworks again for me!
That's BUSH'S "LIBERATION," huh?
How would you feel, shit-stink 'murkn if someone came here and did that to you -- all over a crockshit of LIES?!?!!!!!!
AmeriKa is Iz-ray-HELL now!!!
