Please Honor The Deaths of Innocents in Haditha & Abu Sifa

[IndyOp]

By learning about the FULL EXTENT of horrors inflicted on innoncents around the world by the US government, CIA, military, and corporations. There have been over 250 military and CIA interventions since World War II! After 9/11 I wanted to know 'why they hate us' and 'Time' magazine did not answer my questions.

I read and watched videos and faced what Reverend King faced during the Vietnam War: “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- is my own government.” Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence

IF WE KNOW the TRUTH, the TRUTH WILL SET US FREE!

Ishaqi - Abu Sifa - Children of Abraham - Death in the Desert

WARNING! Photos that the BBC said were too graphic to show are IN this Flash presentation:
Ishaqi - Abu Sifa - Children of Abraham - Death in the Desert

Here is a description of several of the photos:

We know from photographic evidence that the corpses of two men, four shrouded figures (women, according to the villagers), and five children - all of them apparently under the age of five, one as young as seven months, were pulled from the rubble of the house and laid out for burial beneath the bright, blank desert sky.

We know that the U.S.-backed Iraqi police said that an autopsy performed on the bodies found that "all the victims had gunshot wounds to the head." We know that the U.S.-backed Iraqi police said they found "spent American-issue cartridges in the rubble."

We know that two Iraqi police officials, Major Ali Ahmed and Colonel Farouq Hussein - both employed by the U.S.-backed Iraqi government - told Reuteres that the 11 occupants of the house, including the five children, had been bound and shot in the head before the house was blown up.

We know from the photographs that one child, the youngest, the baby, has a graping wound in his forehead. We can see that one other child, a girl with a pink ribbon in her hair, is lying on her side and has blood oozing from the back of her head. The faces of the other children are turned upwards toward the sun; if they were shot, they were shot in the back of the head and their wounds are not evident. But we can see that their bodies, though covered with dust from the rubble are otherwise whole; they were evidently not crushed in the collapse of the house. They died in some other fashion.

We know from the photographs that two of the children - two girls, still in their pajamas - are lying with their dead eyes open. We can see that the light and tenderness that animate the eyes of every young child have vanished; nothing remains but the brute start of nothingness into nothingness. We can see that the other three children have their eyes closed; two are limp, but the baby has one stiffened arm raised to his cheek, as if trying to ward off the blow that gashed and pulped his face so terribly.

The problem is not Haditha.

The problem is not Abu Sifa.

The problem is not Abu Ghraib.

The problem is not Iraq.

The problem is not George W Bush.

THE PROBLEM IS ONGOING USE of the US Military for control of markets and resources.

Real Shock & Awe: After 15 Years War, Sanctions 1,000,000 Iraqis Dead

Killing Hope. Over 250 Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
...by William Blum (ex-CIA)

If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out ... invasions ... bombings ... overthrowing governments ... suppressing movements for social change ... assassinating political leaders ... perverting elections ... manipulating labor unions ...manufacturing "news" ... death squads ...torture ... biological warfare ...depleted uranium ... drug trafficking ...mercenaries ...

It's not a pretty picture.
It is enough to give imperialism a bad name.

Read the full details in:
Killing Hope - Over 250 Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum

"Far and away the best book on the topic." Noam Chomsky

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. China - 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Tse-tung just paranoid?
2. Italy - 1947-1948: Free elections, Hollywood style
3. Greece - 1947 to early 1950s: From cradle of democracy to client state
4. The Philippines - 1940s and 1950s: America's oldest colony
5. Korea - 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be?
6. Albania - 1949-1953: The proper English spy
7. Eastern Europe - 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor
8. Germany - 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism
9. Iran - 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings
10. Guatemala - 1953-1954: While the world watched
11. Costa Rica - Mid-1950s: Trying to topple an ally - Part 1
12. Syria - 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government
13. Middle East - 1957-1958: The Eisenhower Doctrine claims another backyard for America
14. Indonesia - 1957-1958: War and pornography
15. Western Europe - 1950s and 1960s: Fronts within fronts within fronts
16. British Guiana - 1953-1964: The CIA's international labor mafia
17. Soviet Union - Late 1940s to 1960s: From spy planes to book publishing
18. Italy - 1950s to 1970s: Supporting the Cardinal's orphans and techno-fascism
19. Vietnam - 1950-1973: The Hearts and Minds Circus
20. Cambodia - 1955-1973: Prince Sihanouk walks the high-wire of neutralism
21. Laos - 1957-1973: L'Armée Clandestine
22. Haiti - 1959-1963: The Marines land, again
23. Guatemala - 1960: One good coup deserves another
24. France/Algeria - 1960s: L'état, c'est la CIA
25. Ecuador - 1960-1963: A text book of dirty tricks
26. The Congo - 1960-1964: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba
27. Brazil - 1961-1964: Introducing the marvelous new world of death squads
28. Peru - 1960-1965: Fort Bragg moves to the jungle
29. Dominican Republic - 1960-1966: Saving democracy by getting rid of democracy
30. Cuba - 1959 to 1980s: The unforgivable revolution
31. Indonesia - 1965: Liquidating President Sukarno ... and 500,000 others
East Timor - 1975: And 200,000 more
32. Ghana - 1966: Kwame Nkrumah steps out of line
33. Uruguay - 1964-1970: Torture -- as American as apple pie
34. Chile - 1964-1973: A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead
35. Greece - 1964-1974: "Fuck your Parliament and your Constitution," said
the President of the United States
36. Bolivia - 1964-1975: Tracking down Che Guevara in the land of coup d'etat
37. Guatemala - 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized "final solution"
38. Costa Rica - 1970-1971: Trying to topple an ally -- Part 2
39. Iraq - 1972-1975: Covert action should not be confused with missionary work
40. Australia - 1973-1975: Another free election bites the dust
41. Angola - 1975 to 1980s: The Great Powers Poker Game
42. Zaire - 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage made in heaven
43. Jamaica - 1976-1980: Kissinger's ultimatum
44. Seychelles - 1979-1981: Yet another area of great strategic importance
45. Grenada - 1979-1984: Lying -- one of the few growth industries in Washington
46. Morocco - 1983: A video nasty
47. Suriname - 1982-1984: Once again, the Cuban bogeyman
48. Libya - 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan meets his match
49. Nicaragua - 1981-1990: Destabilization in slow motion
50. Panama - 1969-1991: Double-crossing our drug supplier
51. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991: Teaching communists what democracy is all about
52. Iraq - 1990-1991: Desert holocaust
53. Afghanistan - 1979-1992: America's Jihad
54. El Salvador - 1980-1994: Human rights, Washington style
55. Haiti - 1986-1994: Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?
56. The American Empire - 1992 to present

Appendix I: This is How the Money Goes Round
Appendix II: Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-1945
Appendix III: U. S. Government Assassination Plots

Watch this Google video: "What I've Learned About US Foreign Policy - The War Against the Third World" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3453261789658676035&pl=true

If you think I am bashing individuals who have served in the military who have taken part in these actions, think again. I've members of my family who've "served" for all the right reasons and who've been used and abused.

Please Honor The Deaths of Innocents in Haditha & Abu Sifa by learning and talking about the long, long history of US military and CIA actions. THEN TALK TRUTH TO "power."

[Kurovski]

1. K&R. Our history is a shocker.

Way too many assumptions about ourselves (America) is one of the reasons they continue.

We are too often in denial about our nation's ability to partake in evil.

[IndyOp]

4. Thank you. We hold onto the myths and therefore do not see clearly and

do not act responsibly. If we are not willing to recognize evil when it happens, as often as it happens, we cannot stop it.

:(

[jeff30997]

2. Yep.The US Government is the worst calamity to strike the world...

Since Nazi Germany.

[IndyOp]

5. I hate to bring it up...

But the Nazi's could've never risen without funding from super-wealthy Americans.

“Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951” - Federal Documents
By John Buchanan and Stacey Michael
from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7, 2003

After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.

Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.

Bush's partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.

[jeff30997]

8. Thanks for the info.I knew a little bit about that but...

Now I'm even more enraged about those mobsters!:grr:

[tinfoil tiaras]

10. Sick.

I've come to know in recent history that Americans weren't on the right side of the tracks, but all the way back then...weren't we supposed to be fighting them? Not giving them money? WTF.

:cry: and to think of all the people that would have been alive today if the Americans didn't give the Nazis money... :cry:

[Minstrel Boy]

3. Yes, yes, and yes.

What sets Bush and company apart is that their masks dropped. Their crimes exist on a continuum that stretches back generations.

Anti-Flag's song "Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man":

Recruited by the NSA, my orders to talk smooth and straight
If heads of state try to say "No", I lovingly told them "Fuck you!"
The jackals lose when I cannot get through
There is a windfall of profit to get to
You better deal or we're gonna take you down

And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes
The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move
And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes
The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move
So dance with me

Arbenz, Mossadeq, Allende, Roldos, Torrijos, Aristide
Elected democratically, all snuffed out by the CIA
The truth will cause your heart to seize
Shed light on the true enemy

And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes
The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move
And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes
The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move

What have we done? (You don't know)
Until you care (You never will)
What have we done? (You don't know)
Until you care (You never will)

The crimes, the murder, unjust, unheard of
The crimes, the murder, what have we done?

And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes
The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move
And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes
The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move
So dance with me

[IndyOp]

7. Wow. That song is INCREDIBLE. Thanks. (n/t)

[Minstrel Boy]

9. Here's another

from their new album, For Blood and Empire:

"The Project For A New American Century"

It's a gut check of what you believe!

A Global Pax Americana
Neo-con, neo-fascist blue print - USA hegemony
Charlatan war hawks, untried, untrue
Celebrate and exploit tragedy
To steal away control

And it's a gut check of what you believe
Will you stand up for democracy?
or a New American Century?
Endless...
Endless violence, endless hatred
Endless empire tyranny
Will you make a stand for human dignity?
Or never ending hate?

It's a think tank, psycho and crazed
War profiteering membership - a world catastrophe
They've got a war plan that counts on you
to kill for their corporate empire
while they sit at home

And it's a gut check of what you believe
Will you stand up for democracy?
or a New American Century?
Endless...
Endless violence, endless hatred
Endless empire tyranny
Will you make a stand for human dignity?

Are you going to...Fight Back!
Time to prove what you really believe
We gotta FIGHT BACK!
Until we win it all
We gotta FIGHT BACK!
Will you heed the call?
The Neo-Fascist race to war
The PNAC plan to rule the world

It's a gut check of what you believe
Will you stand up for democracy?
or a New American Century?

Are you going to...

And it's a gut check of what you believe
Will you stand up for democracy?
or a New American Century?
Endless...
Endless violence, endless hatred
Endless empire tyranny
Will you make a stand for human dignity?

Will you? Or never ending hate?

And here's the video for an earlier song of theirs, "Turncoat":

TURNCOAT! KILLER! LIAR! THIEF!
Criminal with protection of the law!

Go!

States lies dressed up as evening news
We're tired of lies we want the truth
Broadcast by corpses courting you
We're tired of lies we want the truth
Most people they will never know
We're tired of lies we want the truth
With your or against you?
Then I am against you because you're a...

TURNCOAT! KILLER! LIAR! THIEF!
Criminal with protection of the law

TURNCOAT! KILLER! LIAR! THIEF!
Criminal with protection of the law

In your corner
Makes me wanna
Douse myself in gasoline!
Civil servants fall in line for you
Too brainwashed to see the truth
You use anyone you can!

TURNCOAT! KILLER! LIAR! THIEF!
Criminal with protection of the law

TURNCOAT! KILLER! LIAR! THIEF!
Criminal with protection of the

KILLER!

LIAR!

A TURNCOAT!

and a

THIEF!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. People who read history "hate America".

For real 'Murkins, history ended with those nice Pilgrims sharing cornbread with the poor savages they came to save.

[tinfoil tiaras]

11. K&R'ed...defenently.

That video was one of the most moving things I've seen in a long time...

We must never forget the Massacre that occured in our names. :cry:

[mom cat]

12. Thank you for these invaluable resources!

[Pachamama]

13. The Truth won't set us free...

....it will make us hang our heads in shame after getting sick to our stomachs about what has been done in our name....

:puke:

Scary, ain't it what our Nation has done....even scarier is the fact that the majority of Americans have no clue....and the scariest: That most don't even care!

[IndyOp]

14. Yes, we hang our heads and weep and rage and rend our garments

and then, true repentence and changing our ways will set us free, IMO.

[Pachamama]

19. Here's to Americans repenting and changing our ways!

Namaste IndyOp....

Meanwhile we weep and rage.... :cry: :grr: :cry: :grr:

I just want to know what I can do....I'm so tired of the outrage and crying....and while I have already filled out my CA Absentee ballot which I plan on dropping by the Registrar of Voters office personally, while I donate to candidates such as my Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and others, while I donate to organizations like the ACLU and others who are fighting the good fight, I ask myself, what else can I do? :shrug: I'm ready to take to the street with a pitch fork I'm so mad!

[tinfoil tiaras]

17. No one cares about anything anymore

and it depresses me more and more everyday... :cry:
No one cares that all these horrible things are being done in the names of every single citizen of this country.
No one cares that our rights are being slowly and stealthily taken away.

America-a place where more people vote for the next American Idol than for president.

Very sad indeed :cry:

[motocicleta]

15. The worst part of this for motocicleta:

This comes as no surprise to me. I have not been unaware.

The worst part: I just feel terribly helpless. Even when I try to talk about these things, my friends, family, colleagues, co-workers - they just turn away. It is too much for most people to even respond. I'm not arguing for hopelessness, I just have such a hard time having any myself.

[DearAbby]

16. I will stand with you

and honor these dead. And a recomendation.
Thank you.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

18. Kicked and Recommended and I only have one word to add

wow

[Kurovski]

20. Kick.(nt)

[LibertyorDeath]

21. Brilliant post...

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