Our war on the Iraqi People

From Baghdad Burning:

Friday, December 29, 2006

End of Another Year…

“You know your country is in trouble when:

1. The UN has to open a special branch just to keep track of the chaos and bloodshed, UNAMI.
2. Above mentioned branch cannot be run from your country.
3. The politicians who worked to put your country in this sorry state can no longer be found inside of, or anywhere near, its borders.
4. The only thing the US and Iran can agree about is the deteriorating state of your nation.
5. An 8-year war and 13-year blockade are looking like the country’s ‘Golden Years’.
6. Your country is purportedly ‘selling’ 2 million barrels of oil a day, but you are standing in line for 4 hours for black market gasoline for the generator.
7. For every 5 hours of no electricity, you get one hour of public electricity and then the government announces it’s going to cut back on providing that hour.
8. Politicians who supported the war spend tv time debating whether it is ‘sectarian bloodshed’ or ‘civil war’.
9. People consider themselves lucky if they can actually identify the corpse of the relative that’s been missing for two weeks.

“A day in the life of the average Iraqi has been reduced to identifying corpses, avoiding car bombs and attempting to keep track of which family members have been detained, which ones have been exiled and which ones have been abducted.”

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And we Americans are responsible for it.

Our oil companies steal an entire nation’s oil, while our pilots and soldiers rape, torture, terrorize and mass-murder that nation’s people, and our criminal-psychopath leaders and the crooked corporate media say we’re only trying to bring them “democracy”.

If America was a single person, that person would be locked up in a padded cell, in a prison for the criminally insane.

See also:

Your taxes at work: the daily slaughter of Iraqi families – men, women and children

American high-tech cruelty: new weapons of war for use against civilian people in Iraq — and America

War-criminal U.S. military may have already used neutron bombs in Iraq

9-11, Oil, and the Real “Axis of Evil”

Iraqi Oil Belongs to the Iraqi People

Stealing Iraq’s oil

Tweedle-dumb attacks Tweedle-D over war

Time magazine’s cover-up of American state terrorism in Iraq

American War Crimes Caught on Video

A Tribute to Iraqi Children

Video of American Marines shooting unarmed civilian people

ABC “News” Undercounting Iraqi Dead

Iraqi Apocalypse

Your tax dollars at work: torture and genocide

Are you paying for murder?