Riverbend's "Bad Day..."

[kpete]

Baghdad Burning
Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Bad Day...
...........

There’s an ethnic cleansing in progress and it’s impossible to deny. People are being killed according to their ID card. Extremists on both sides are making life impossible. Some of them work for ‘Zarqawi’, and the others work for the Iraqi Ministry of Interior. We hear about Shia being killed in the ‘Sunni triangle’ and corpses of Sunnis named ‘Omar’ (a Sunni name) arriving by the dozen at the Baghdad morgue. I never thought I’d actually miss the car bombs. At least a car bomb is indiscriminate. It doesn’t seek you out because you’re Sunni or Shia.

We still don’t have ministers in the key ministries- defense and interior. Iraq is falling apart and Maliki and his team are still bickering over who should get more power- who is more qualified to oppress Iraqis with the help of foreign occupiers? On top of all of this, rumor has it that the Iraqi parliament have a ‘vacation’ coming up during July and August. They’re so exhausted with the arguing, and struggling for power, they need to take a couple of months off to rest. They’ll leave their well-guarded homes behind for a couple of months, and spend some time abroad with their families (who can’t live in Iraq anymore- they’re too precious for that).

Where does one go to avoid the death and destruction? Are the Americans happy with this progress? Does Bush still insist we’re progressing?

Emily Dickinson wrote, “hope is a thing with feathers”. If what she wrote is true, then hope has flown far- very far- from Iraq…

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#114954848489173468

[Spazito]

1. "Where does one go to avoid the death and destruction?"

Riverbend's posts make is very real. Thanks for posting, kpete.

[ninkasi]

2. I feel so bad for her

and for all of the other innocent Iraqis who have had their world smashed to ruins because of an arrogant, corrupt, odious pretend-president and his neocon accessories in crime. Is the life she leads now a life that Bush would claim is better because we invaded her country? I have followed her blog, and have seen what her family and friends have endured.

If she ever reads DU, I hope that she realizes that the wanton destruction of her country is not in my name. I was against the war, and remain against it today. All Bush knows how to do is to destroy whatever he touches, then wander away looking for something else to screw up while somebody else cleans up his mess.

[Suich]

3. For the night crew:

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