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Scenes From An Iraki Childhood (American "Regrets" Edition)

The Americans bombarded a civilian apartment block at No: 139 60th street, Al Saha in Dora (South Baghdad) on Friday morning. They started at around 1 a.m. continuing for several hours. Aswat Al Iraq’s official source said that they killed eight people and wounded seven others. Residents told Aswat Al Iraq that the Americans killed ten and wounded ten others. All of the dead and wounded were civilians. While an official at Al-Yarmouk hospital told AFP that 13 people — seven men, two women and four children — were killed and 10 men and a woman were wounded in the air strike. He said all the casualties were civilians. The American military said they “regretted” if women and children were killed. That’s the headline that AFP gave their report.

US regrets if women and children killed in Baghdad raid

Reporting the same American bombing of a civilian district Reuters (Arabic)  say that their television report showed clips from Al Yarmouk of two men and three boys who had been wounded in the American attack and that doctors had amputated the left leg of one of the boys. — The boy you see in the first photograph in this article.

There is no question of “if” here.

The Americans have once again deliberately bombed a civilian area from the air knowing, and not caring, that they were going to kill and maim women and children.

There is no “if” about these dead children.

There is no “if” about the dead women.

There is no “if” about these dead men.

And there is no “if” about who killed them. The Americans killed them.

As usual when they kill Iraki civilians the Americans displayed their contempt for the civilians whom they kill and maim by not bothering to put out even a preliminary a statement about it until well after the event.

The American forces in Irak care nothing for the lives of civilians, women, children, the elderly, “men of military age” — which as far as the Americans are concerned means any child over the age of 12. They care nothing.

For the Americans the people of Irak are a resource to be exploited just like our oil except that we are worth less than our oil. The only thing they require of us is obedience that we must be made to understand that it is the American who is holding the whip and that he has every intention of using it.

The only thing these sand niggers understand is force and I’m about to introduce them to it.

It is the American way of war to make war against the civilians of the country they are trying to subjugate.

Their failed “surge” was never intended to bring peace to Baghdad. And it hasn’t. What it has done is to turn vast swathes of the city into gigantic open air prisons where the Americans can do as they want.

The Americans routinely bomb civilian homes Sadr City, Shula, Dora, al Fadil, the list goes on and on and on. Since January hundreds of civilians have been slaughtered by criminal cowards in American uniforms using American weapons sent here by the American government and nobody in the green zone government dares say a thing to them about it. They dare not say a thing about it because they survive at the will and pleasure of  American gunmen and they know it.

And always when they do finally get around to making a statement they tell the tired old stupid American lie that they were fighting Al-Qaeda. In that part of Dora? I can only suppose that a large part of the American Army’s publicity machine is actually some sort of care institution for the feeble-minded. And that these feeble-minded buffoons think that everybody is as stupid as they are.

Then comes the second tired old American lie. That they “regret” the deaths of the civilians they shot down. They do not. Sometimes the mask slips and the viciousness and the evil of the Americans in Irak shows its true colours:

The only thing these sand niggers understand is force and I’m about to introduce them to it.

They do not regret the civilian deaths they cause any more than those who send out the suicide bombers regret the women and children cut down in their innocent blood that they have caused. They feel not the slightest regret. My dictionary defines the word regret as follows:

“a feeling of sadness about something sad or wrong or about a mistake that you have made, and a wish that it could have been different and better:”

The only thing the Americans regret is that more than four years since they first invaded our country that we still resist their detestable presence.

Irak is my home not yours Americans are not welcome here.

Mohammed Ibn Laith.