Riverbend will leave Iraq........

it's so sad and hard to contemplate what it must be like to face leaving one's home after enduring a living hell for 4 long years......a living hell courtesy of our own republican administration, lock-step congress and a willing "news" media who whore for them......i am sickened that my tax dollars have been used to tear so many lives apart......for what????? we hear about victory and winning and fighting "them" there so we don't have to fight "them" here...what does victory or winning look like?????....this i scream at my tv when some shill says it and, of course, they never answer that question.......and for the most part america goes on about it's business in relative safety, overconsumption, and self-righteousness.......
i love my home and my community and i can not imagine what it would be like to risk a dangerous escape after surviving 4 years of danger every day....

and what is up with these rethugs and their walls?????? when all else fails they want to build a wall.....i sure hope enough people will wake up and realize "us and them" is a recipe for the survival of no one.....
my heart is with River and her family and all Iraqis who have been terrorized by these greedy, criminal thugs who have seized control of our county........

america it's way past time to pull over and get directions.......

oh, and don't forget america....freedom is on the march.....the new feudal age is planned for all.....did you think the corporatists had something else in mind for you and yours????........
if we don't care what happens to humans everywhere, no one will survive.........

Thursday, April 26, 2007
The Great Wall of Segregation...

…Which is the wall the current Iraqi government is building (with the support and guidance of the Americans). It's a wall that is intended to separate and isolate what is now considered the largest 'Sunni' area in Baghdad- let no one say the Americans are not building anything. According to plans the Iraqi puppets and Americans cooked up, it will 'protect' A'adhamiya, a residential/mercantile area that the current Iraqi government and their death squads couldn't empty of Sunnis.
........I always hear the Iraqi pro-war crowd interviewed on television from foreign capitals (they can only appear on television from the safety of foreign capitals because I defy anyone to be publicly pro-war in Iraq). They refuse to believe that their religiously inclined, sectarian political parties fueled this whole Sunni/Shia conflict. They refuse to acknowledge that this situation is a direct result of the war and occupation. They go on and on about Iraq's history and how Sunnis and Shia were always in conflict and I hate that. I hate that a handful of expats who haven't been to the country in decades pretend to know more about it than people actually living there.I remember Baghdad before the war- one could live anywhere. We didn't know what our neighbors were- we didn't care. No one asked about religion or sect. No one bothered with what was considered a trivial topic: are you Sunni or Shia? You only asked something like that if you were uncouth and backward. Our lives revolve around it now. Our existence depends on hiding it or highlighting it-
depending on the group of masked men who stop you or raid your home in the
middle of the night.

.........It's difficult to decide which is more frightening- car bombs and militias, or having to leave everything you know and love, to some unspecified place for a future where nothing is certain.

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