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RIVERBEND'S GIRL BLOG FROM BAGHDAD; QANA MASSACRE REACTION
Aug 3, 2006
Riverbend - Qana Massacre...
Baghdad Burning

 

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Qana Massacre...
Although the sun is blinding this time of year in our part of the world, the Middle East is seeing some of its darkest days…

I woke up this morning to scenes of carnage and destruction on the television and for the briefest of moments, I thought it was footage of Iraq. It took me a few seconds to realize it was actually Qana in Lebanon. The latest village to see Israeli air strikes. The images were beyond gruesome- body parts and corpses being hauled out from under tons of debris. Wailing relatives and friends, searching for loved ones… So far, according to humanitarian organizations, 34 were children. They killed them while they were sleeping inside their bomb shelters- much like the Amriya Shelter massacre in 1991.

We saw the corpses of the children on television, lifeless and twisted grotesquely, what remained of their faces frozen in expressions of pain and shock. I just sat there and cried in front of the television. I didn’t know I could still feel that sort of sorrow towards what has become a daily reality for Iraqis. It’s not Iraq but it might as well be: It’s civilians under lethal attack; it’s a country fighting occupation.

I’m so frustrated I can’t think straight. I’m full of rage against Israel, the US, Britain, Iran and most of Europe. The world is going to go to hell for standing by and allowing the massacre of innocents. For God’s sake, 34 children??? The UN is beyond useless. They’ve gone from a union of nations working for the good of the world (if they ever were even that), to a bunch of gravediggers. They’re only good for digging mangled bodies out of the ruins of buildings and helping to identify and put them into mass graves. They won’t stop a massacre- they won’t even speak out against it- they’ll just come by and help clean up the mess. Are the lives of Arabs worth so little? If this had happened in the US or UK or France or China, somebody would already have dropped a nuclear bomb… How is this happening?

Where is the Security Council??? Why haven’t they stopped Israel? Ehud Olmert recently told Condi that he needs 10 to 14 more days of bloodshed- and nothing is being done about it! Where are the useless Arab leaders? Can’t the pro-American, spineless emirs crawl out of their gold palaces long enough to condemn this taking of lives? Our presidents/leaders are only as influential as their oil barrels are deep.

And the world wonders how ‘terrorists’ are created! A 15-year-old Lebanese girl lost five of her siblings and her parents and home in the Qana bombing… Ehud Olmert might as well kill her now because if he thinks she’s going to grow up with anything but hate in her heart towards him and everything he represents, then he’s delusional.

Is this whole debacle the fine line between terrorism and protecting ones nation? If it’s a militia, insurgent or military resistance- then it’s terrorism (unless of course the militia, insurgent(s) and/or resistance are being funded exclusively by the CIA). If it’s the Israeli, American or British army, then it’s a pre-emptive strike, or a ‘war on terror’. No matter the loss of hundreds of innocent lives. No matter the children who died last night- they’re only Arabs, after all, right?

Right?


- posted by river @ 10:16 PM
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This is an authentic blog by a young woman, straight from Baghdad. A computer worker and working woman, she lost her job after the American Invasion and Occupation of Iraq; BECAUSE OF THE AMERICAN INVASION ENCOURAGING THE RELIGIOUS FAR RIGHT, it is NO LONGER SAFE for a woman to go out in the streets and to work away from home. Not to mention the many KIDNAPPINGS, RAPES AND MURDERS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS that the American Invasion, and ensuing uncontrolled chaos, is responsible for.

Therefore, Riverbend started this blog from her home shortly after the American invasion; she also has a book out, Baghdad Burning, which you can buy. You can go to her blog, the address is given here. Please go there and get the REAL story of what is happening in Iraq -- NOT the version that Bushco WANTS Americans to hear. It is not pretty. NOT U.S. troops "building schools" and giving out candy and Beanie Babies to adoring kids. Please read Riverbend!
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