Scenes From An Iraki Childhood May 6th 2008 Father And Son
Posted by Editors on May 7, 2008 – 12:24 am
Jassim Ugla tends his son Sa’ad after he was wounded in an air strike in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 6, 2008. At least four civilians were killed overnight in Sadr City, hospital officials said Tuesday. Some 21 people were injured at the same time in Sadr City, which has seen fierce fighting between the Mahdi Army militia and U.S. and Iraqi troops.
(Text and phot0AP)
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American Assault on Sadr City, American attacks on civilians, American War Crimes, Children, Sadr City, Scenes From An Iraki Childhood
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May 7th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Re: US Occupation of Iraq
Subject: US Pre-Election Murder Campaign
Dear US Representatives & Senators,
The US intentionally kills, injures and starves Sadr City civilians to punish and deter their support for the Sadrist trend and the Mahdi Army.
The US/GZG puppet military offensive against Sadrist/Mahdi Army nationalists in Sadr City has killed 1000 civilians and injured 2600 in April ‘08 and three times that number in southern Iraq since May 25, 2008.
Overwhelming firepower savagely applied in occupied cities forseeably and inevitably causes high civilian casualties. Such results, both forseeable and inevitable, are therefore intentional and intentionally killing civilians is a grossly repulsive criminal violation of the US Code (18 USC 2441).
Battering Iraqi civilians will only increase Sadrist and Mahdi Army supporters and attract the uncommitted. At the same time, such abhorrent crimes diminish US moral authority, weaken support, alienate allies and corrode national security. They increase the probability of retaliatory defensive attacks on Americans like those of 9/11.
I object to using my taxes to murder Iraqis resisting the theft of their oil.
Please use your good offices to end this primitively brutal, shameful and counterproductive practice. Thank you.
Very truly yours,
May 7th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Thanks Pvt.
I just sent to Rep. Tom Feeney, Senators Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez.