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Does Anyone Remember Any More?
Can anyone recall the "official" reason for the US Army to stay in Iraq? I'm not refering to the real reason which everyone now knows is about oil and a futile attempt to protect the US$ as the world's reserve currency. I thought the official reason was all about remaining in Iraq until the intersect violence subsides.
Ben Heine/ MWC NEWS
But today I have received a message from a young girl called Sara who lives in Baghdad which states that an American tank sat idly by, unable to enter the rubble filled streets, while her familiy was threatened by militia. The question is I suppose, was the US Army supposed to be protecting her and her family or were they in fact actually protecting the murderous thugs whilst they carried out their business?
This was the e-mail
"My family was attacked while sleeping by militia men and they were protected by an american tank, that could not proceed trampling on our small street, and it stayed at the end of the street like a looming ghost.
The militants said that we are hiding sunni terrorists, and they were intending to kill all of us, women before men.
Until my stunned mother remembered that her family was from shia and she brought her old tattered Id to show it to them, only in this moment they left us alone, but they left us trembling of fear, and we still chilling to remember that they were over here to kill us.
After this incident we tried to go back to Syria where we still have a new small house , but our notorious (iraqi luck) let us discover that all iraqi visa to Syria is cancelled ."
Michael Lee
Oxford UK
in a land unknown
at a time yet not arrived.
Thus, I was born
within the forest of beast and rock.
My heart
in void
started beating.
I abandoned the cradle of reiteration
in a land with no bird, no spring.
My first journey was a return
from the hope-abrading vistas of thorn and sand,
without having gone far
on the inexperienced feet of the fledgeling that was I.
My first journey
was a return.
The vast distance
taught no hope.
Trembling,
I stood on the feet of the novice that was I
facing the horizon ablaze.
I realized that there was no tidings
for in between stood a mirage.
The vast distance taught no hope.
I learnt that there was no tidings:
This boundless
was a prison so huge
that the soul
hid in tears
from shame of impotence.
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We still have troops there, it's been 11 years, and we were promised they would be home in a year.
Was it really nothing more than a creative diversion so that the UN leaders could continue to rob the coffers of the oil for food program (which some of the money went into building that funky looking trailer in Arkansas, Bill Clinton calls a library) from Iraq and to draw attention away from repeated failed UN resolutions against Iraq, and Waco TX, Joslin Elders, travelgate, white-water gate, Maddy Notsobrights face, "co-presidency", perjury, obstruction of justice, janet reno's beard, hillary's growing 5 gallon per cheek of cottage cheese butt, etc., etc.,
Britain has a bundle of US bases, 60 years ago they came, and they are there still. Not only that, the US military personnel do not have to answer to British justice if they break civil law.
They, the US have bases in about 50 countries, 730 of them.
They are harder to get rid of than the Mob.
Good luck to to that Iraq family, may they, and all Iraqis find peace, but that I believe will never happen as long as the US wants to control their oil, and the World at large.
Mike.
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