“Liberating” Iraqis, Limb by Limb, Life by Life, Home by Home, Gene by Gene by Felicity Arbuthnot

[polly7]

March 29th, 2013

People leapt into the Euphrates river to put out their burning flesh – it continued to burn in the water. Dead were described as “caramelized”. Other bodies were described as melting, disintegrating, but their clothing staying intact, by doctors who have seen much in Iraq in 1991 and since, but never this.

“All forms of nature were wiped out”, stated the (pro-American) Iraqi Health Minister, Dr. ash-Shaykhli.

The United Nations – responsible for the deaths of over half a million children, resulting from its strangulating embargo on Iraq, in little over the first five years, to 1996 and whose then Secretary General, Kofi Annan, took until September 2004 to admit that the invasion was “illegal”, designated “The 20th March 2013 the first ever International Day of Happiness” (Assembly Resolution A/RES/66/281.)

It is also World Sparrow Day, “designated to raise awareness of the threats to sparrow and of other birds, to their populations.” They should start in Iraq. Whilst there, perhaps they might also take in Representatives of the relevant United Nations Committees and give a thought to raising awareness of the threats to the endangered Iraqis and their population.

Felicity Arbuthnot is a journalist with special knowledge of Iraq. Author, with Nikki van der Gaag, of Baghdad in the Great City series for World Almanac books, she has also been Senior Researcher for two Award winning documentaries on Iraq, John Pilger's Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq and Denis Halliday Returns for RTE (Ireland.) Read other articles by Felicity.

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/03/liberating-iraqis-limb-by-limb-life-by-life-home-by-home-gene-by-gene/

[idwiyo]

1. K&R

[Brigid]

2. Two Viet Nam-era memes come to mind:

1. Destroying a village in order to save it.

2. Let me win your hearts and minds -- or I'll burn your village down.

God, I feel like a German who voted against Hitler sometimes.