Thursday, February 15, 2007
At the morgue
From the Baghdad bureau of McClatchy comes this heart wrenching story of a trip to the morgue to pick up the remains of a family member killed in an explosion. A trip undertaken by the women who are the only ones who can safely travel there nowadays.
When we got there, we were given his remains. And remains they were. From the waist down was all they could give us. “We identified him by the cell phone in his pants’ pocket. If you want the rest, you will just have to look for yourselves. We don’t know what he looks like....And the Republicans want to drag out this misery as long as they can. For what purpose?
....We were asked what we were looking for, “ upper half” replied my companion, for I was rendered speechless. “Over there”. We looked for our boy’s broken body between tens of other boys’ remains’; with our bare hands sifting them and turning them.
We found him millennia later, took both parts home, and began the mourning ceremony.
Labels: Bush legacy, failure, Republicans
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This is just one death...there has been thousands of others. Our Congress needs to stop fiddling around with "non-binding" resolutions which is nothing more than sending Junior a message that they aren't really going to do anything about the horror he's created in the Middle East, and which he'll ignore the way he's ignored everything else that doesn't fit in with his plans.
Like a majority of Americans, I'm weary of rhetoric with no action. The old "If we leave, Iraq will fall into chaos" simply doesn't work. The chaos has been occurring for over three years now.
The idiocy behind the notion that we have the ability (or the right) to change a culture thousands of years older than our own, into a clone of America is insulting. The only freedom we've brought to the Iraqis is the freedom to be blown up, the freedom to make a choice between hiding in their homes or going out to attend to their business and possibly be blown to pieces, the freedom to flee their homes and their country and search for a safe haven while everything familiar, everything they hold dear is destroyed.
May God and the world someday forgive us for the horrors we've brought to the Iraqi people.
Like a majority of Americans, I'm weary of rhetoric with no action. The old "If we leave, Iraq will fall into chaos" simply doesn't work. The chaos has been occurring for over three years now.
The idiocy behind the notion that we have the ability (or the right) to change a culture thousands of years older than our own, into a clone of America is insulting. The only freedom we've brought to the Iraqis is the freedom to be blown up, the freedom to make a choice between hiding in their homes or going out to attend to their business and possibly be blown to pieces, the freedom to flee their homes and their country and search for a safe haven while everything familiar, everything they hold dear is destroyed.
May God and the world someday forgive us for the horrors we've brought to the Iraqi people.
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