Back to Fallujah: Tents on Rubbles

Eman Ahmed KHAMMAS, BRussells Tribunal




We heard about the same problem in Amiriya complex, 25 kilometers west of Falloja. In the Complex Local Council hall there were 5 families, living in separated tents. Two babies were just born in the camp. The families were told to leave the hall or else they are going to be arrested.

"What are you going to do now?" I asked the men.

"Run away, we can do nothing else. We have no money to rebuild our completely destroyed houses, they are not convenient to live in at all, and we do not want to be arrested" said Nadim, who spent 9 years in Iran as POW.







The Head of the Compensation Committee reveals in numbers the Fallujah Tragedy

Dr. Hafidh al-Dulaimi, the head of “the Commission for the Compensation of Fallujah citizens” has reported the following destruction that has been inflicted on Fallujah as a result of the American attack on it:
- 7000 totally destroyed, or nearly totally destroyed, homes in all districts of Fallujah.
- 8400 stores, workshops, clinics, warehouses, etc.. destroyed.
- 65 mosques and religious sanctuaries have been either totally demolished and leveled with the ground or whose minarets and inner halls have been demolished.
- 59 kindergartens, primary schools, secondary schools and technical colleges have been destroyed.
- 13 government buildings have been leveled.
- Destruction of the two electricity substations, the three water purification plants, the two railroad stations and heavy damages to the sewage and rain drainage subsystems throughout the city.
- The total destruction of a bridge to the West of the city.
- The death of 100,000 domestic and wild animals due to chemical and/or gaseous munitions.
- The burning and destruction of four libraries that housed hundreds perhaps thousands of ancient Islamic manuscripts and books.
- The targeted destruction (which appears to be intentional) of the historical nearby site at Saqlawia and the castle of Abu al-Abbas al-Safah.
Dr. al-Dulaimi has asked all relevant international organization to visit and document the destruction to Fallujah.........

The Head of the Compensation Committee reveals in numbers the Fallujah Tragedy March 21, 2005 (< http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=59994 >Islam Memo news item in Arbic)

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m10630

under them.

Saturday November 6, 2004
The Guardian

US forces were last night awaiting final orders to storm Falluja, the resistance stronghold, in what is expected to be the bloodiest assault since the invasion of Iraq last year.
As the US stepped up air raids, blocked roads into the city, and issued loudspeaker warnings to the population to leave, the interim Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi, indicated that time had almost run out.

Speaking in Brussels after a European Union meeting, he said: "We intend to liberate the people and to bring the rule of law to Falluja. The window really is closing for a peaceful settlement."

But concern is growing that a bombardment of Falluja from the air and ground will result in a high civilian death toll. Although most of the population has already fled, there are estimated to be still tens of thousands of civilians left.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1345049,00.html


Some 10,000 GIs Ring Fallujah's Outskirts

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - More than 10,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines have taken positions around Fallujah for an expected assault, as U.S. jets pummeled insurgent targets Friday and troops blocked key roads. Iraq (news - web sites)'s prime minister warned the "window is closing" to avert an offensive.


Insurgents struck back, killing one U.S. soldier and wounding five in a rocket attack. Clashes were reported at other checkpoints around the city and in the east and north of Fallujah late in the day.

For the past three nights, long convoys of American soldiers from Baghdad and Baqouba have rolled onto a dust-blown base on the outskirts of Fallujah, a city that has become the symbol of Iraqi resistance. U.S. commanders here have been coordinating plans either to fight their way into the city or isolate it from the rest of Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland.

If they fight, American troops will face an estimated 3,000 insurgents dug in behind defenses and booby traps. Military planners believe there are about 1,200 hardcore insurgents in Fallujah — at least half of them Iraqis. They are bolstered by insurgent cells with up to 2,000 fighters in the surrounding towns and countryside.


much more
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=962213

imperial japanese army...


Japanese aircraft bombed south Shanghai Station Aug.28,1937.
About 200 people in the waiting room were dead or wounded by the bombing. A crying baby was left alone after the bombing. - Life Oct. 4, 1937

though even they didn't destroy the whole city - not to mention their hospitals :puke:

peace

doesn't report on the leveling of Fallujah or the casualties only that the U.S. has been succesful in pacifying this city. I guess the U.S. got it's revenge for the hanging of dead mercs.

there's been a lot of chatter among those who command and those who bomb. According to 'sources', Zarqawi has called for an increase in their 'work'.

So horrible. How will they ever get their lives back thanks to der feher? Oh man. :cry:

on my last post. The 'work' is to be in retaliation for Fallujah, against the US and its interests, not against Fallujahns.

That has to be one of the most pathetic propaganda attempts ever concieved.

of a man and his mother in Fallujah? The man was trying to get his elderly mother out of harm's way as U.S. troops moved in, and both were shot!

We all need (maybe not need) to see the images of the horror so as to come to terms w/reality of these war crimes. It is all so appalling and we get only the sanitized version in the MSM. Problem is those who see the photos are already against the war and occupation and those who need to see them rarely do.

Peace

A man and his mom trying to escape. He was carrying her.

Didn't make it through the vortex.

I'm currently working on a montage of images to put out along with info on what has been happening to Iraqi people, particularly the annihilation of falluja

I wish our country could take a look at what we have wrought in Falluja.

I only see it in my browser?

You want some heartbreaking pics, go here...

to view "Greetings from Fallujah"


http://itsacrime.proboards42.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&num=1110584868

in a strange way. Didn't work but the link did. there is more I'd like to say about this "exhibit" that I plan to take out in public spaces. We must all become the media in whatever way we can. People can be touched and moved to action.

Just what in the fuck are they supposed to do? I mean really...this is so shameful.

The children and the elderly will begin to die first. Cholera and other disease will go through the refugee camps. If word really starts to filter out, maybe US forces will bomb them under the pretense that their are 'terrorist cells' in them. :(

Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?"

He said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"

And the LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground."

I hope they take him up on this

" Dr. al-Dulaimi has asked all relevant international organization to visit and document the destruction to Fallujah"

that Sgrena was about to interview Fallujah refugees when she was kidnapped.

Of course, other people say she staged the whole thing.

But, it's something to think about...

by the most corrupt group of people to ever hold the reigns of power in America.

The World knows exactly what is happening to AmeriKa

the average American who thinks Fox News keeps them informed with their 'fair and balanced' crap.

And worried about "saving" Terri Schavio. Someone should print horrific photos out of these people and pass them around to the fundies and ask them who's saving them. :grr:

don'tcha know all the fundies ever say is "well, people get killed in war, blah blah blah."

They have the luxury of sitting in their nice warm home and going to well stocked stores in their SUVs, and honestly think the only difference between the US and other countries is the language.

Well, unless it's the Middle East. Over there, the whole place is a bunch of guys squatting in front of bombed out rubble, and 'bad guys' who live like kings, who have to be taken out.

I forgot to mention that Islam is the 'devils' religion' and they all have to be converted with cluster bombs, napalm and mustard gas!

But we're 'liberating' the oppressed masses of Iraq, but we need to nuke Iraq.

I'm confused. I'm going to go lie down...

The World Knows

In our collective conscious I think we all know and hence the denial, the opiates (TV), the distractions and the fear.

Peace

Been enjoying your insightful posts.

Latest development of that story, by the way, is that American authorities have barred the Italians from inspecting her car...

WITH U.S. FORCES NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - The number of dead and wounded from the expected battle to retake insurgent-controlled Fallujah probably will reach levels not seen since Vietnam, a senior surgeon at the Marine camp outside Fallujah said Thursday.


Navy Cmdr. Lach Noyes said the hospital here is preparing to handle 25 severely injured soldiers a day, not counting walking wounded and the dead. The hospital has added two operating rooms, doubled its supplies, added a mortuary and stocked up on blood reserves. Doctors have set up a system of ambulance vehicles that will rush to the camp's gate to receive the dead and wounded so units can return to battle quickly.

More...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=958779

Maybe she could have reported about this Frederik

:hi:

this explains the large numbers of dead and dying children, whose parents appear relatively unharmed, in the pics coming out.

I'm so sorry if I'm posting too much here. It's just that this particular subject makes me so EXTREMELY angry, and I think everyone should know about it and get Bush out of the White House!!!

Billions, if not Trillions of American dollars going to total destruction of life and they call this "spreading Democracy?"

I call it "spreading their wickedness."

should include the intrusion of Gov. into private lives of hospice patients and wonton distruction of entire towns because a few mercenaries were strung up!

in America.....

Something is dreadfully wrong here... if life was so precious, we should stop the fuckin war and Bring our boys HOME.

and let tyhem live in the White House, too. :wow:

half a brain left and, uh, uh, it, uh, shows.

Preachin to the choir sadly. *sigh* I wish there was something we could do.

I knew it was bad...but not this bad... these pictures must come out. The troupes need to be allowed to testify and none of them should be held accountable only their supervisors and superiors and the whole Bush administration

are those in the Bush administration. They are the one's who started this crap and made this happen. Even the generals are just following orders. *sigh* If only we can do this.

Bookmark thread. Find a computer with color copier attachment. print a few images. Take images to copy shop have them blown up so you can put them on a sign. Go to a public place with your sign(s) and leaflets. Wake people up.

Become the media. You are not powerless.

Peace and simplicity

show rusholes the photo of kilimamjaro. ask about that "big pile of quarters" we refer to as the debt. 7.7 tril and growing. http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

I'll say it again and over and over, I knew this was going to happen to the community in April of 2003. It has been so sad to see it played out.

American Marines attack Fallujah

American troops have begun attacking the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the operation which required the Black Watch to be redeployed.

On Thursday, just days after the regiment moved from its base in Basra, three soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing. The operation came on the day Prince Charles visited troops' families in Wiltshire.

During the night American Marines, backed up by troops of the Iraqi Army, began their operation.

The city of Fallujah is said to be the home of the insurgents behind the recent wave of kidnappings, beheadings and suicide bombings.

Colonel Gary Brandl of the United States Marine Corps commented:
"The enemy has a face. It is Satan's. He is in Fallujah, and we are going to destroy him."

**SNIP**

God in heaven - Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoset = translation: "Kill them all. God will know his own."

Dante Zappala, a soldier's brother, said: "Violence breeds more violence, like the Black Watch saw this week. This will result in more tragic deaths."

Mahmood Al-Sabbagh, an Iraqi Refugee commented: "Fallujah will be like Glasgow if there were invaders here, as if Hitler had come here in World War II. It is exactly the same."

much more
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=964926

I remember anarchy1999

This is LBN . "VIDEO GAME GENERATION" getting ready to wipe out
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=959952

Marines revved up, but on hold, at Fallujah
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=959845

it was all done on credit . . . doubly disgusting . . .

...semester of school to make up for what they missed.

:eyes:

Don

kick

Hope this isn't bad form, if so let me know. More to the point, hope Fri. eve people could see these photos.

Thanks DU Mods and DUmanoids.

Peace and Simplicity

http://ericblumrich.com/year.html 3 minute video


Legion

Enveloped in a sentiment,
a sound that rushes over me.
Engage an impulse to pretend
I have a faith as pure.
Not forgetting what it means to dream.
Indulging everything.
Entertaining thoughts that I've the strength
of those I yearn to be.
Cheers and tribute greet the saviours.
Reckless thoughts survive.
Anachronistic and impulsive.

And what will happen?
Will I dream?
I am too scared to close my eyes.
For a second please hold me.
None can change in me these things that I believe.
But I don't know what happens now.
I am too scared to close my eyes.

© VNV Nation



The people of Falluja appeal to the UN

...

The city was very quiet and peaceful when its people ran it. We didn't witness any disorder in the city. The civil administration was going well given its limited recourses. We simply didn't welcome the occupation forces. This is our right according to the UN Charter, international law and the norms of humanity...

It is very urgent that your Excellency, along with the world leaders, intervenes in a speedy manner to prevent a new massacre.

We have tried to reach your representatives in Iraq, so as to ask them to be more active in this regard, but as you know they are living in the Green Zone where we cannot contact them. We want the UN to be involved in the situation in Falluja so as to avoid a new massacre.

We have tried to reach you through different channels and by asking our friends to convey this letter to your office in New York or Geneva with the hope that it will reach you. At the same time we appeal to you to urge the UN agencies in Iraq to take an active role in protecting civilians and preventing the new massacre which the Americans and the puppet government are planning to start soon in Falluja as well as many parts of our country.

more
http://www.workers.org/ww/2004/falluja1104.php

Fresh from seeing that video, and it's only a video, and I, am I no more than a voyeur in the little shop of horrors. How to stop the madness of the madmen and technocrats.

So, so sad.

They did NOTHING to harm our soil or our people.

Terrible.

:cry:

About the truth of the usage of limited nuclear explosives, Dr. Al-Sheikhly said: what I have seen during our research in Fallujah made me to believe about all what had been mentioned about that battle, and I never exclude their usage of nuclear and chemical materials, hence, all natural forms and diversities have been obliterated and finished in that city. We have seen tens if not hundreds of wild dogs, cats and birds died because of those gases.

Dr. Al-Sheikhly pledged in the press conference which was attended by 20 Iraqi and Arab journalists that he will send the results of the studies conducted in Fallujah to the responsible authorities whether it were Iraqi or international bodies. The press conference was also attended by the news correspondents of the Iraqi Al-Sharqia television station, the Iraqi government satellite television station, the Al-Somaria channel, the Iraqi Al-Sabah news paper as well as journalist representing other television and foreign news papers such as the Washington Post, the American Nightrider and the Islam Memo.

This proclamation is considered the most important and most serious declaration so far following the end of the military operations in Fallujah which lasted for about four months or less. The Islam memo was the first to point out the use by the occupation forces of gases and other burning chemical agents during the first day of the onslaught on Fallujah.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=10643&hd=0&size=1&l=x

BAIT REFUSED

In the wake of the sorry events of 2000, only a fool would not have expected an election-stealing repeat attempt in 2004. When the Bush administration began preparing an assault on Fallujah timed to begin within days of the November '04 vote, the motive was transparent.

If Kerry took the bait, he would be pilloried for undermining the commander-in-chief with the nation at war, by daring to question the election outcome. Not to mention leaving the United States vulnerable to an opportunistic attack by an Al-Queda leadership keen to exploit division in its imperial enemy.

Not taking the bait was a no-brainer. But first, no matter what the cost, Kerry supporters would have to be dissuaded from swallowing bait that the leadership knew bore only the taste of defeat.

And so, John Edwards strolled out to reassure supporters and launch the cover story about counting every vote. But Kerry would have to halt his supporters by quickly killing off the questions about the result -before they could begin. Kerry would choose his own timing. That's why the quick preemptive concession.

At the same time, John Kerry nailed the "sore loser" angle, and nailed it good. He was a paragon of graciousness. It was a faultless, if slightly incredible performance. Something jarred about it. Even grassroots Republicans sensed that, but never pondered the motive.

Before long, with the Internet in full stolen election mode, Kerry was mending fences with his activist supporters by means of his calculatedly ambiguous "whatever the outcome of this election" statement. Less noticed was Edwards similar gambit. A resounding "This fight's not over... because I'm not finished with this fight" rallying cry to his home state supporters

TEFLON KERRY:
MORE SLICK MOVES ON
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FRAUD

http://www.BreakForNews.com/articles/TeflonKerry.htm

*****

John Kerry realized that to launch a public campaign calling the vote into question would be disastrous. In fact, he likely realized he would we walking right into a Bush-set booby trap.

In particular, during our election coverage we talked about the pending battle of Fallujah, about the timing of it being an election ploy, about how it was following in the constant Bush pattern of creating a media event to sway the election, as he did last time by making the run up to the Iraq invasion come to a head exactly on election week.

Well, the battle in Fallujah began hitting the media hard in the week before the election, right on cue. Of course it was billed as the solution, the battle that – if you just keep Bush in office – will wipe out those insurgents and solve the problems over there. This was yet another obvious use of our nation’s troops by President Bush as if they were campaign volunteers rather than non-partisan volunteers to defend our nation.

But Fallujah, it turns out, seems to be even more than that. Fallujah, in effect, was the get away car for an election heist.

Following the fiasco in Florida in 2000, Gore was able to battle on for 30 days to try and get a fair accounting. All the while, the Bush camp claimed he should just stop and give up because his delaying of what they were saying was the inevitable end was threatening the nation’s security and stability. They said the stock market was suffering, the nation was unstable, and so Gore should just give up and accept the result as is.

This time, John Kerry had made clear he was prepared to fight 100 times as hard and long as Gore did if necessary. In fact, he had solicited fund just for that eventuality so he could battle all over the nation if necessary to ensure that every vote was properly counted.

Enter Fallujah. As we know – and saw on election night, as Bush’s people began calling Networks and demanding they call Ohio for their camp – the Bush team’s strategy was to try and force all questions to be closed ASAP. Last time, they weren’t prepared for that part. This time, they were.

Picture if John Kerry had chosen to call the election into question. Immediately, the Bush camp would talk about how 50,000 of our troops are just about to launch the biggest military operation since the invasion of Baghdad. And, just a couple of days after the election, it was launched.

You can imagine the arguments from the Bushies: “How could Senator Kerry undermine our security while our troops are in the midst of battle.” Fallujah was to be the pressure point that would, if not stop Kerry from uncovering all the dirt and getting a fair election count, would at least tarnish his name with much of the nation and, as importantly, create something for the right-wing dominated media to hammer away at him on, making it seem as if he is only caring about himself and not the nation.

It was quite a well-crafted plan. Completely amoral, but smart.

Unfortunately for them, John Kerry was smarter.

As Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, who has been about the only mainstream journalist to actually follow up on the many serious problems with regard to the integrity of the election, has pointed out, a concession speech, in effect, means nothing. It is not legally binding.

So, if you were thinking like a Bush goon, you would expect that either Kerry would stand up to the mischief that went on, not conceding in the meantime, and so your booby trap would work perfectly, or that he would just give up and let it go, as wimpy Democrats are prone to do.

But John Kerry chose a smarter course. Ask yourself the question, what if John Kerry were to do both, concede publicly but, at the same time, look into every instance of mischief, and see if in fact the election was fair or fixed.

This would be a no lose situation for him. The booby trap set up for him would become irrelevant, as he would have done the right thing for the nation, not putting it into turmoil while its troops are in battle.

INSIDE THE ELECTION FRAUD BATTLE

Think Kerry Is Not Involved In This Fight? Think Again. Also: Fallujah = Operation Distract From Fixed Election.

by Betsy R. Vasquez

http://www.moderateindependent.com/v2i21election.htm
*****

good compelation of Fallulah links here~~~

Filter Tips

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8301.htm
(~25 reports)

By Chris Floyd

03/18/05 "Moscow Times" - - U.S. President George W. Bush often complains about the "media filter" that distorts the true picture of his administration's accomplishments in Iraq. And he's right. For regardless of where you stand on Bush's policies in the region, it's undeniable that the political and commercial biases of the American press have consistently misrepresented the reality of the situation.

previous DU thread here~~~


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21st c. Horror ! most SHocking & AwFull DUthread in Quite a While!!

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I cannot be silent....,

Man at war with himself, Terrorizes, Tortures and Torches all
... living...Sacred Nature in Fallulah.

The capacity of man's inhumanity to man...knows no bounds.

This is a deep, deep wound, transgression upon the Human Family and The WorldSoul.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

*****

Our voices being heard out in public even if it is not a "public space" is necessary. Cyberspace can be a learning experience and DU is in particular an education of the rare form but it isn't real in the sense that it isn't tactile and fully integrated into the way we 'feel' in the world. others must learn what you know. Let's stop the madness. Tell them.

Your post was/is awesome and I made copy to add to my papers from which to cull as I piece together some things for public viewing.

see ya in the streets.

check that last link though, seems not to be working.


"Paddy's Lament"

Well it's by the hush, me boys, and sure that's to hold your noise
And listen to poor Paddy's sad narration
I was by hunger stressed, and in poverty distressed
So I took a thought I'd leave the Irish nation

Well I sold me ass and cow, my little pigs and sow
My little plot of land I soon did part with
And me sweetheart Bid McGee, I'm afraid I'll never see
For I left her there that morning broken-hearted

Here's you boys, now take my advice
To America I'll have ye's not be going
There is nothing here but war, where the murderin' cannons roar
And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin

Well meself and a hundred more, to America sailed o'er
Our fortunes to be making we were thinkin'
When we got to Yankee land, they put guns into our hands
"Paddy, you must go and fight for Lincoln"

Here's you boys, now take my advice
To America I'll have ye's not be going
There is nothing here but war, where the murderin' cannons roar
And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin

General Meagher to us he said, if you get shot or lose your head
Every murdered soul of youse will get a pension
Well in the war lost me leg, they gave me a wooden peg
And by soul it is the truth to you I mention

Here's you boys, now take my advice
To America I'll have ye's not be going
There is nothing here but war, where the murderin' cannons roar
And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin

Well I think meself in luck, if I get fed on Indianbuck
And old Ireland is the country I delight in
To the devil, I would say, it's curse Americay
For the truth I.ve had enough of your hard fightin

Here's you boys, now take my advice
To America I'll have ye's not be going
There is nothing here but war, where the murderin' cannons roar
And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin
I wish I was at home
I wish I was at home
I wish I was at home
I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin

SINEAD

U.S. Used Banned Weapons In Fallujah-Health Ministry

3/3/05 GD board

@

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would make great postcards to send to the broadcasters in this country talking about the rebuilding of Iraq. CNBC with their series on the rebuilding effort showing the progress should show these. They could call it an urban renewal demolition.

I've been making all my postcards like this for years.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to the Hague!

I shudder to think of the world these children are experiencing every moment ofthe day. From America we cannot imagine the suffering.

Peace to all brothers and sisters

i'm not sure being born was such a good happening
WHAT ARE THESE big people DOING?








CRY ! for the fire...by The Residents

Directional Protector Spirit


COURAGE WISDOM VISION

chlamor

To whoever sees what you do not see
Who are you, what are you to rule over people?

At the foot of the Bodhi tree,
beautifully seated, peaceful, and smiling,
the living source of understanding and compassion,
to the Buddha I go for refuge.
The path of mindful living,
leading to healing, joy, and enlightenment,
the way of peace,
to the Dharma I go for refuge.

The loving and supportive community of practice,
realizing harmony, awareness, and liberation,
to the Sangha I go for refuge.

I am aware that the Three Gems are within my heart.
I vow to realize them.
I vow to practice mindful breathing and smiling,
looking deeply into things.
I vow to understand living beings and their suffering,
to cultivate compassion and loving kindness,
and to practice joy and equanimity.

I vow to offer joy to one person in the morning
and to help relieve the grief of one person in the afternoon.
I vow to live simply and sanely,
content with just a few possessions,
and to keep my body healthy.
I vow to let go of all worry and anxiety in order to be light and free.

I am aware that I owe so much to may parents, teachers, friends, and all beings.
I vow to be worthy of their trust,
to practice wholeheartedly,
so that understanding and compassion will flower,
and I can help living beings
be free from their suffering.

May the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha support my efforts.

Thich Nhat Hanh

3 million? 4 million?



Laos, Hmong Bill Passes U.S. Congress: Urges Stalinist Regime to Address Crisis and Reform
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=536547


But all is well because Christ has died for our sins :shrug:


Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia!
Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia!


Love's redeeming work is done, Alleluia!
Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia!
Christ has opened paradise, Alleluia!


Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!
Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!
Once he died our souls to save, Alleluia!
Where's thy victory, boasting grave? Alleluia!


Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia!
Following our exalted Head, Alleluia!
Made like him, like him we rise, Alleluia!
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!

Jesus

They used to call him Jesus
Long time ago
They're still calling him Jesus
Don't you know
They crossed the wood and hanged him
A long time ago
They still misunderstand him
Those who don't know
And in the evening his love will lead the blind
In every secret corner there in your mind

They called him Gautama Buddha
Oh long time ago
He turned the world to order
Don't you know
He used to sit knowing
Oh long time ago
Where you and me were going
And in the evening his love will lead the blind

to a few chosen "friends". peace.

The US forces' press service said the military extended its condolences for the incident, but added that "the military must take appropriate action against possible threats" because of the prevalence of car bombs.

The incident was witnessed by Chris Hondros, a photographer, who recorded it in a series of dramatic pictures. They show how troops shot dead the driver and one passenger - husband and wife, apparently, but unnamed in the photograph captions.

The five children in the rear of the car survived, with only one being slightly injured by a bullet. The military said it was investigating what happened.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7784.htm

If any come acroos this tonight I hope you'll go to general politics and look at Texas Lawyers post on falluja from whence this quote came. It's amazing how much attention has been diverted to the Schiavo-Christian-Strategy-Political Game thing. Our minds have been defined.



The city itself has been devastated. Most houses have been seriously
damaged, with about 65% of them totally destroyed. Evidence of
depleted uranium (DU) shells is everywhere. This leaves radioactive
contamination behind which has a half-life of 4.5 billion years.
(See note1). Unexploded ordinance is a common sight. Many residents
who were there speak of chemical weapons, napalm, cluster bombs and
phosphorous used by the Americans. These are all illegal weapons and
considered war crimes by the international community. Many of the
houses were fired, meaning that the troops burned them down after
searching them. Many houses with white flags and markings
stating "Family Here" were destroyed.