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Arab Press: Get Out, America!'
By Tariq A. Al-Maeena, close_encounters@gawab.com What a schmuck! Get out, America! So many Iraqis echo these words today, as images of death and destruction flash on our television screens. Innocent lives being taken out daily by the indiscriminate bombings by US forces of densely populated neighborhoods. Lives lost of men, women, and children who had been traded one tyranny by another. (Note, not one word about Islamic terrorists.) And death by US forces is being meted out in all areas of Iraq. In the north, in the center, and in the south, and all in the name of fighting 'terrorists'. With the death toll rising every day, an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 civilians have lost their lives in Iraq since you began your adventure, America. A greater number have been crippled or maimed. Far more than those innocent victims gassed by Saddam. Not to mention the numbers of your own sons whose lives have been pitifully lost in this barbaric quest. ("barbaric quest"? this little dishrag must mean al-Qaida quest to bring death & chaos.) This invasion was justified on three false pretexts. Failing to provide evidence that Saddam as an accomplice to the Sept. 11 events, you then brought forth the threat of weapons of mass destruction. And when the truth proving you wrong came out, you switched to another line. That you would restore democracy to Iraq. (Kerry must be able to use some of this.) Saddam did not possess weapons that threatened you. (PLEASE) And he could have been taken out eventually or covertly. But in defiance of international rules of law, and bolstered by the presence of stooges you shamelessly call a 'coalition', you chose instead to demonstrate your shock and awe prowess. Your pundits for this murderous adventure did all they could to create the atmosphere of fear and panic among your people, lying and deceiving them with false dossiers and data. And then there were tales. Tales of how welcome your conquering heroes would be. Greeted openly by a people living for so long under the brutality of a vicious dictator. "Garlands of flowers", if my memory serves me right. Instead, the world witnessed your brutality and your greed. The censorship of the free press by the Pentagon of your initial incursions was carefully tailored to keep your people in the dark. There were no scenes of mangled bodies of women and children in your media. Your Rumsfields', Wolfowitzes' and Rices' must have rubbed their hands in glee. And your people were led to believe you were doing the right thing. It has been over a year and a half, and today you still continue the lie. That all is well in Iraq, and that the resistance is small and isolated to miniature bands of "terrorists". The Iraqi that you supposedly went in to free has suddenly turned into a terrorist makes me pause to wonder why? Is it because you took out his family when you bombed a market square? Or dropped bombs on schools and hospitals? Or how about the shelling of their places of worship? Or wiping out wedding parties out in their entirety? Or the heinous treatment of those you captured and threw in prison without due course of law? Parading the leader of the regime you propped up to lend you credence and justification may sit well with your electorate. And may help ease their conscience. But not with the people of Iraq. This leader will say all you want to hear. After all, you put him in power. The blood of the innocent today heavily taints your hands. You have shamed and made a mockery of the meaning of democracy. Do the right thing for a change, America. Listen to the words of the common Iraqi. Get out! a-HOLE! Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-09-25 |
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