What’s on her face is the blood of her two dead sons.What she’s holding is their shoes.
They were killed on February 23rd 2006 in the violence following the bombing in Samarra.
Just go. Take your soldiers, your mercenaries, your “advisors,” your murderers, your troops who steal while they’re searching Iraqi homes, your troops who suffer “gay panic” and kill their teenaged Iraqi partners, take your corrupt incompetent Halliburton subsidiary that can’t even provide water to American troops that’s free of faecal organisms, take your Baptist missionaries, take your torturers, your “other government agencies” and GO.
mfi
Indexed under: Salah ad Din (Governorate), Samarra, Women and Children
Bill Moyers lays it out in spades: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022406A.shtml
The Phoenix will rise. (something about that in Ireland I can’t remember)
Mark,
This is a masterful piece.
If anyone, anywhere reading this ever wondered what “less is more” means — thanks to you, they should now understand completely.
Even the stones [should] cry out.