Saturday, September 13, 2003 :::
Falluja residents were also mourning the death of a 3-year-old girl who witnesses said had been shot in the head by American soldiers during street fighting late Friday.
::: posted by Andrewski at 12:01 PM
Friday, September 12, 2003 :::
I fucking hate you, George W. Bush, you piece of shit not-really-elected Republican chickenhawk. You went AWOL for a year when you were in the National Guard, but you have no problem sending American troops to die daily in Iraq for your selfish, profitable war. These are our dead.
I can't stand this war that never ends. I can't stand that the U.S. has given an October 31 (Happy Halloween!) deadline to Iran to declare whatever they've got in terms of nuclear weapons programs. Didn't we do this with Iraq last year? You know, before the last war we had that killed 300 American soldiers and untold thousands of civilians?
Read this, goddamit! Read this, America!!
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and seven coalition troops wounded early Friday in small-arms fire that broke out while they were conducting a raid in Ramadi, a central Iraqi town 60 miles (96 kilometers) west of Baghdad, the coalition said. The soldiers were evacuated to a nearby medical facility, where they died from their wounds.
Doesn't this make you want to weep? Two years after The Day That Changed Everything Into A Nightmare Apocalypse With Fascist Overtones, we've got American soldiers being slaughtered on a daily basis. If they're not BEING slaughtered, they're doing the slaughtering, like the very recent incident where Iraqi police were fired on by U.S. troops. 10 people died in the incident.
"I am 100 percent sure this is American ammunition," he said, holding up spent shell casings.
Fallujah's mayor said the violence killed eight of the city's security personnel and left two others seriously wounded. One Iraqi policeman was killed and seven wounded, he said.
There is NO fucking accountability for Prince Bush and this massacre. I'm beginning to think that if we want to avoid another election debacle like the one that occured in 2000, there should be a violent revolt against the state. Who's with me?
Gotta go, I think the FBI is knocking on my door.
::: posted by Andrewski at 3:59 PM
Tuesday, September 09, 2003 :::
The American Broadcast Company has a very "American" look at various fluff pieces compiled on a website called "9/11: America Fights Back". One of these pieces examines the way teachers tried to talk to their students about 9/11. A great deal of this article is stuffed with emotions instead of actual fact or analysis, and the article never bothers to address the issue it claims to investigate: How *are* kids being taught about 9/11 in schools? It seems the simple-minded media, enamored with our simple-minded president, clings to the safe description of events as simply, "evil".
Ah, but what about the history books? They're still being written, it seems.
Textbook publishers face a daunting task in writing about 9/11 for posterity. That may explain why major publishers are taking different approaches to analyzing what happened, and why.
In The War on Terrorism — first published as a supplement and later included as a separate chapter in The Americans and Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction — McDougal Littell takes a cautious approach. The chapter for middle and high school students steers clear of suggesting what motivated the perpetrators or the U.S. response. "The goal … is the destruction of what they consider the forces of evil," it asserts.
By contrast, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill's The American Vision offers more explanation in its seven succinct pages. It begins by saying oil discoveries in the Middle East dating to the 1920s brought more contact with the West and great wealth to only a select few in the Arab world, "but most of the people remained poor."
Also in the news... Recall candidate Tom McClintock said on CNN that he hoped to remove the "regime" of Governor Davis. Very careful word games going on in the news... A Republican calls the Democratic-run state a "regime" with the same backhanded disdain that President Bush refers to Saddam. So it seems a political foe automatically qualifies to be a "regime", whether you are trying to make people afraid of Governor Davis or of the nation of Iraq. It is highly offensive that such fascist terms permeate media coverage and shape the way we understand the world! If you don't like your opponent, or have something to gain by their destruction, just label it a "regime"!
::: posted by Andrewski at 1:54 PM
