Baghdad Burning

[alfredo]

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Saturday, June 10, 2006

Zarqawi...
So 'Zarqawi' is finally dead. It was an interesting piece of news that greeted us yesterday morning (or was it the day before? I've lost track of time…). I didn't bother with the pictures and film they showed of him because I, personally, have been saturated with images of broken, bleeding bodies.

The reactions have been different. There's a general consensus amongst family and friends that he won't be missed, whoever he is. There is also doubt- who was he really? Did he even exist? Was he truly the huge terror the Americans made him out to be? When did he actually die? People swear he was dead back in 2003… The timing is extremely suspicious: just when people were getting really fed up with the useless Iraqi government, Zarqawi is killed and Maliki is hailed the victorious leader of the occupied world! (And no- Iraqis aren't celebrating in the streets- worries over electricity, water, death squads, tests, corpses and extremists in high places prevail right now.)

I've been listening to reactions- mostly from pro-war politicians and the naïveté they reveal is astounding. Maliki (the current Iraqi PM) was almost giddy as he made the news public (he had even gone the extra mile and shaved!). Do they really believe it will end the resistance against occupation? As long as foreign troops are in Iraq, resistance or 'insurgency' will continue- why is that SO difficult to understand? How is that concept a foreign one?

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[dave502d]

1. I think you are right. n/t

[Doctor_J]

2. Naivete?

Shirley, you jest. They know full well this will do nothing to end the violence. They're not naive - they're dishonest.

[karlrschneider]

3. Aw, shit...what would she know?...she only LIVES there.

:eyes:

[rocktivity]

4. Something happened with Karl Rove that made me unhappy today

but I've suddenly forgotten what it was...

...it was "A New Day for Iraqis" on April 9, 2003. And it was "A New Day for Iraqis" when they killed Oday and Qusay. Another "New Day for Iraqis" when they caught Saddam. More "New Day" when they drafted the constitution...

Zarqawi...was an American creation...His influence was greatly exaggerated, but he was the justification for every single family they killed through military strikes and troops...(T)hey have freedom to do what they want. The slaughter in Haditha months ago proved that...

"They don't need him anymore," our elderly neighbor waved the news away like he was shooing flies, "They have fifty Zarqawis in government."

CUE THE VONAGE THEME!

:woohoo:
rocknation

[alfredo]

5. If you have time read on down the page.

She really lays it out.