- "Even Saddam didn't do this." --Mohammed Ahmed,
outside Abu Ghraib's main gate, trying to visit his brother.
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- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1210545,00.html
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- Well ladies and gentlemen, if this Iraqi man's declaration
doesn't hit you in the gut you can count yourselves as among THE DESENSITIZED.
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- If it shocks and sickens you, then you really need to
open your eyes and ears! It also wouldn't hurt to read beyond your Governnent
approved newspapers and magazines. Also, beyond the Government's Corporate
pals bringing you raidio and TV's fair and balanced bullshit. Sorry if
my vulgarity offends you. But, I also know it is only offensive to THE
SHOCKED group, anyway.
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- I'm just an average U.S. citizen and if I can comprehend
what this man's statement says about our good old US of A government and
military, why is it that wiser men than I are not doing anything about
it? Well, let me clarify that with wiser and decent human beings!
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- What is keeping them silent? Oh, no, you say, they are
speaking out! Yes, some are, but who is listening to them? And of those
who are listening who is taking actions to solve the problems? Are we to
be surprised by a sudden emergence of these good patriots who have been
steadily working in the underground freedom fighters methods?
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- No, that's too much to hope for now. I'm not going to
regurgitate the latest disgusting revelations about Iraq or the insane
babblings of Bush because if you haven't heard about them you are probably
not going to finish reading this article either.
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- So I say to my fellow patriots, how much more desensitization
do you think we'll need before we have mass canibalism right here in our
land of the free? Frankly, I am neither desensitized nor shocked by the
deterioration of our country. And I expect that anyone with an interest
in history saw it coming as well.
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- What we are facing in this country very soon is not new.
It is only new to Americans who have lived their lives sheltered from harsh
realities that have always existed in countries around the world. The greatest
Empires all rose and they all fell. And, the various reasons for both were
also not new. We live in a reality that was set in motion as cycles. Until
the day the cycles stop, we will go on repeating the past. Oh, the names
and the faces and the labels will be different, but the basic plot will
always be the same.
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- So I leave you with this thought... When a liberated
countryman says that their vile former dictator did not do such atrocious
things to the citizens as the Americans are doing to them, you really need
to ask yourself "what is wrong with this picture?"
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