Take a good look at the photo of this woman taken yesterday Friday May 26th, 2006. She’s running franticallly to the Al-Kindi hospital in Baghdad’s Al-Nahda district. As she runs she’s screaming that her sons have been killed undergone the last stage of progressive pre-emption in yesterday’s bombing of a market there.
Now take look at the second photograph also taken taken yesterday Friday May 26th, 2006. This man is at the Al-Kindi hospital’s morgue. He’s searching unsuccessfully for a member of his family at al-Kindi missing probably terminally progressively pre-empted after the same bombing.
The bomb was placed under a car at an outdoor market in the al-Nahda area of Baghdad. Reports vary as to how many were killed and how many were injured. Al-Nahda’s a bit of a dump really. The name means “renewal” or more accurately “renaissance”, and as you might expect with such a name it’s one of Baghdad’s poorer quarters. It’s largely inhabited by Shia Iraqis and if you want to get the bus to one of the cities in the Shia south. The Nahda bus station is the one to go to. If you go there you’ll see that the station is for poor people, mothers with young children, unemployed labourers, and now grandparents bringing their grandchildren to the relative safety of the cities in the Shia south.
Meanwhile Tony Blair, the poodle regnant of all colonialist hearts, who has loyally repeated one Cheney inspired lie after another, (and made up quite a few of his own) brings us this message from his master:
So Tony how will you be spending your weekend? I already know how this woman and this man will be spending theirs. Tony forget “The World” for a moment. How long do you think it’ll be before Iraqis forget your role in sending so many of them to the morgue to search frantically for the bodies of the people whom they love as part of carving their homeland up?
OK Tone come over here for a moment. Tony, HEEL! That’s a good boy. Have a biscuit. Tony you daft little poodle-brain you…. Are you really so stupid as to believe that all those … you know brown people … don’t know what you mean when you talk about “progressive pre-emption?”
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MFI, Sometimes the sadness of Iraq just overwhelms me. As usual, you have put your finger on the salient meme here. Bush and Blair are going to say, “Let’s move on!” And, the goddamn American populace will agree. But, this isn’t Vietnam. There were no car bombs or suicide bombers in Vietnam. There were no Sunni and Shia in Vietnam. This is far, far worse. I don’t think that we are going to be allowed to forget it. In the meantime….
Sadly Doc I have to agree to with you on all counts - and in particular about the very nasty shock the US population are going to get when the Iraqis remind them by forcefully moving on rather a lot of American soldiers.
Ha,ha,ha,forgive and forget indeed.No chance.
Believe me anonymous we sing from the same sheet here. Those who commit attrocities do not deserve peace of mind. Empires (or hegemonies if you prefer that word) always start to whinge “oh why can’t we just get along” round about the time they start to feel the pain of the victims of their agression fighting back. And there’ll always be some who are deleuded enough to listen to that. The truth as you well know is that for as long, and only as long, as they feel and remember feeling that pain, imperialists will at least emulate civilised behaviour. Nor does it matter where the imperialist/colonialist/hegemonist comes from in their behaviour and what they respond to at home and abroad they’re identical.
Mark, Your last paragraph gave me a wry smile. a few weeks ago I added the following comment to another’s blog:
“It is a shame mxxxh is not returning. I do really want to know why the US and my country invaded Iraq. I am sure his explanation would be inciteful…. er, insightful.
( Actually. I know why we did. ” Walk. Heel. Sit. Roll over. Gooood puppy. Have a biscuit.”)”
LOL DfromAustralia in return for that sorely needed giggle I promise never to set my legions of exceptionally ferocious savage dropbears on your trail :-)