Sunday, October 10, 2010

The nightmare, the Iraq invasion's atrocities, unearthing the unthinkable...

I have a deeply held belief that the duty of a commentator is, to the best of one's ability, to record, to shine light in often dark places, to act as a voice for those whose own voice, fears, plights might not be heard or known. To write about the emotions one sometimes feels when doing it, is an anathema and anyway a redundancy. The purpose is to attempt to draw attention to wrongs, not to whinge about the effects they can have - and any way, a private life should be just that. If politicians wish to strip themselves of their dignity and allude to everything from their sex life, to using private grief to gain sympathy votes, those with a shred of self-respect do not wish to emulate them. Here, I am breaking my taboo, for a reason.

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Seemingly genocides these days are only committed by Africans or Eastern Europeans, not those great bastions of democracy, U.S., U.K., and the "only democracy in the Middle East", ally Israel. The Israeli Defence Force, trained U.S., troops for the two week November 2004, Fallujah pogrom. (2) "If it moves, shoot it", was the order of the day. As two world wars, as Korea, Vietnam, the face of liberation never changes.

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The U.S., and U.K., whose leaders have trumpeted the dangers of the latest "new Hitler" in the countries they planned to decimate, have outdone the Nazis. Enough. Full story...

Don't miss: 
  1. The Picture... 
  2. The video they don't want you to see...
  3. CNN censors Iraq story of boy shot in the head...
  4. Fallujah's health fallout 'worse' than Hiroshima, Nagasaki... 

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