By Dahr Jamail
"At least 20 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq in May, the most since last September, along with more than 50 wounded. Iraqi casualties are, as usual - and in both categories - at least ten times that number.
Attacks against US forces are once again on the rise in places like Baghdad and Fallujah, where the Iraqi resistance was fiercest before so many of them joined the Sahwa (Sons of Iraq, also referred to as Awakening Councils), and began taking payments from the US military in exchange for halting attacks against the occupiers and agreeing to join the fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq. In early April I wrote a column for this website that illustrated how ongoing Iraqi government and US military attacks against the Sahwa, coupled with broken promises of the Sahwa being incorporated into the government security apparatus or given civilian jobs, would likely lead to an exodus from the Sahwa and a return to the resistance." (more)
Monday, June 1, 2009
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"Better known for Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, Twain was quite anti-war. I certainly was never instructed to read Twain's "The War Prayer," part of which sardonically reads:
ReplyDelete<blockquote>"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle - be Thou near them! With them - in spirit - we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it - for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen."</blockquote>
This is the slaughter and suffering that is being caused by the US occupation of Iraq. This is the death and suffering that is causing the Iraqi Resistance to once again form, gain strength, and prepare to resume full operations."
We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love,
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Ha ha ha!
Great texte! I shudder thinking that sweden 75 moron used to quote (actually not quoting just name dropping) him ad nauseum..
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ReplyDelete"I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." --Vice President Dick Cheney, on the Iraq insurgency, June 20, 2005
ReplyDelete"It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam’s security forces and his army. Hard to imagine." –Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, testifying before the House Budget Committee prior to the Iraq war, Feb. 27, 2003
ReplyDelete<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“Your campaign promises were built on change and the time for it has come, and we say with that the time has come- the destruction that the previous administration caused for our country from killings, displacement, civil war and racism- has damaged your reputation as American people and it damaged elements of a nation that did not attack you by your own recognition and therefore we ask for change and do not listen to those who tell you that a withdrawal from Iraq is a defeat. We say to you that a withdrawal will mean a triumph of reason and logic.” </span>
ReplyDelete<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN;">- </span><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;">Political Council of the Iraqi Resistance (PCIR)</span><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;">http://antiimpmedia.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/pcir-to-obama/</span>
Really interesting site you have linked to, r.s.
ReplyDeleteBaghdad sniper? Jihad Army?
ooohh....vza, he linked to a resistance site! How shameful, why could he not link to the myriad of trash sites you espouse? Its a terrible indeed... :)
ReplyDeleteA myriad of sites I espouse? Uh. Just what were those sites, again? I forget, since I do not recall espousing any sites,
ReplyDeleteReally, I thought the site was rather over the top with some of that flowery language and glorification of the snipers. I especially like the cheesecake photo on one page,... the handsome, brooding fighter in the sleeveless T-shirt posed with his trusty symbol of... er..manhood. Resistance pin-ups! Wow! The glorious resistance channels Madison Avenue! I love it!!!!!!
I am curious as to whether it is for real or just a bunch of wannabes.
Oh you're sites vza, well that is easy - you never found a piece of propaganda for imperialism that you did not love...lol We will see how the "wannabes" do in the second round :)
ReplyDeleteThe Jihadi boys and the rest of the not so noble resistance have done NOTHING good for the Iraqi people. Anyone can respect an honest to goodness resistance fighter who actually fights for his people and his land. So far. I have not read about any such group fighting in Iraq.
ReplyDelete<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;">"President Obama, After listening to your speech on the 27th of February 2009, in which you declared your general and public understanding of the ongoing war against our people, and gave your military and the honorable people of the United States brief points on your intentions in our country, we felt the spirit of the speech that your predecessor President JFK gave on the 20th of January 1961, on his inaugural address. In this speech, he offered a turbulent world, a way out of tensions and paid with his own blood for challenging the interests of those in your consecutive governments who hold the true keys to power. Those who would do anything to preserve their interests, wealth, & power to create wars & conflict.</span>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;">If you need to talk to honest Iraqis, then you know very well, where to find them. John F Kennedy also said" “Let us never negotiate out of fear, but never fear to negotiate” </span>
"resistance have done NOTHING good for the Iraqi people."
ReplyDelete<span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;">They did everything good, not only for the Iraqi people but for the whole region, by rendering useless all imperialist agendas. </span>
Where are all of these imperialist agenda fighters when it comes to Saudi Arabia? Why haven't they flocked there to dismantle the imperialist lackeys instead of blowing people up at markets in Iraq? If they are willing to throw their lives against the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan why not tackle Israel which is supposedly, according to one jihadi pundit, the wound on the soul of Islam?
ReplyDeleteSorry, I am not convinced of the glorious resistance's altruistic purpose in making the world safe from imperialist agendas.
And something tells me the web site antiimperialist fighters are probably living comfortable lives in the West. Oh, the sacrfices they make for their cause!
<p style=""><span style=" color: black; font-family: Verdana;">They are locales vza not people that “flocked there.” </span>
ReplyDelete<span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast- mso-bidi- mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">
ReplyDelete<p style=""><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;">They are locals vza not people that “flocked there.”</span><span style=" color: black; font-family: Verdana;"></span>
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Then why on earth are they blowing up their own people?
ReplyDelete"So far. I have not read about any such group fighting in Iraq." Vza
ReplyDeleteExactly. That is because you fool nobody with your cheap comments and constant inuendo. Your a dime a dozen
<p style=""><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;">"Then why on earth are they blowing up their own people?"</span>
ReplyDelete<p style=""><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;">You know I don’t believe that.</span><span style=" color: black; font-family: Verdana;"></span>
<p style=""><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;">You know I don’t believe that.</span><span style=" color: black; font-family: Verdana;"></span>
ReplyDeleteSo you think the U.S. is blowing up all those people just to promote, what, civil war? Or to manufactire a reason to keep soldiers there?
ReplyDeleteSo you think the U.S. is blowing up all those people just to promote, what, civil war? Or to manufacture a reason to keep soldiers there?
ReplyDeleteOh I would never, ever try to fool you, v. =-O
ReplyDeleteYOU'RE far too clever.
At this juncture, who cares vza
ReplyDeleteIraqi resistance. @ amazing videos
ReplyDeletehttp://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4SUNA_enUS314US259&q=Iraqi+resistance&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=JpglSq2DF4iSswOFmqWOBg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4SUNA_enUS314US259&q=Iraqi+resistance&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=JpglSq2DF4iSswOFmqWOBg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4SUNA_enUS314US259&q=Iraqi+resistance&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=JpglSq2DF4iSswOFmqWOBg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title&start=10
I get a big kick how they label it "propaganda" in some instances, like every drop that comes out of this "global media" is not propaganda
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