Why the US will never ever prevail in Iraq - [View All]

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Iraq: The Devastation

Dahr Jamail


snip - In December 2003, for instance, a man in Baghdad, speaking of the Abu Ghraib atrocities, said to me, "Why do they use these actions? Even Saddam Hussein did not do that! This is not good behavior. They are not coming to liberate Iraq!" And by then the bleak jokes of the beleaguered had already begun to circulate. In the dark humor that has become so popular in Baghdad these days, one recently released Abu Ghraib detainee I interviewed said, "The Americans brought electricity to my ass before they brought it to my house!"

Sadiq Zoman is fairly typical of what I've seen. Taken from his home in Kirkuk in July, 2003, he was held in a military detention facility near Tikrit before being dropped off comatose at the Salahadin General Hospital by U.S. forces one month later. While the medical report accompanying him, signed by Lt. Col. Michael Hodges, stated that Mr. Zoman was comatose due to a heart attack brought on by heat stroke, it failed to mention that his head had been bludgeoned, or to note the electrical burn marks that scorched his penis and the bottoms of his feet, or the bruises and whip-like marks up and down his body.

personal remarks regarding this commentary..... please read the entire article. President Bush states that the insurgents are fighting against freedom....well if this is the sort of freedom you are talking about Mr. Bush, then I would fight to. And to Americans, please do not be dissillusioned into thinking that an election in Iraq will change the outcome. It will not stop until every foreigner or enabler of US colonial power has been evicted from Iraq. It is over. The US cannot win. And what will death squads do other than further erode the US at home and abroad. Get out now. Please end the strife and allow these people to determine their own future.