Sunday, January 14, 2007
This is your legacy, George - Part 4
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea 8:7
From Newsweek comes this article on the first fruits of what Our Dear Leader and the evil Vizier Cheney have sown.
From Newsweek comes this article on the first fruits of what Our Dear Leader and the evil Vizier Cheney have sown.
Ammar is 17 years old. A tall, thin boy with a beard just starting up, he has already seen far more of the dark side of life than anyone really should. As the grisly toll of Baghdad's death squads spiked last fall, he helped out in the room at his local mosque where bodies are ritually washed before they are buried. Some corpses had been burned with chemicals. Limbs had been cut off, eyes torn out. One day at the beginning of November, a neighbor of Ammar's, a college student and fellow Sunni, disappeared at an impromptu checkpoint set up by the Mahdi Army. When the neighbor's body finally turned up at the mosque for burial, Ammar saw that he had been beheaded. (He recognized his friend from the clothing.) "I ran into the garden and threw up," Ammar says. Then he vowed revenge.They may just be kids today, but they will grow up and they will remember. Nice job, George! This is your Iraqi "No Child Left Behind".
Sectarian warfare is reshaping Iraq in all sorts of malevolent ways day in and day out. But it is also forging the future by poisoning the next generation of Iraqis.
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