WAR CRIMES in Fallujah

The NYT's Judith Miller calls for Americans to defend Corporate News Media's right to lie and blow the cover of a CIA agent. Howard Kurtz and Wolf Blitzer self-righteously assert Bush's fake reporter, Guckert-Gannon, is a victim of the mean lefty blogosphere. ABC's John Stossel points a finger to U.N. peacekeepers impregnating locals and abandoning them.

No one mentions George W. Bush's war crimes.

WHO WILL TELL THE PEOPLE?

Popping over to The Alarmist this a.m., I encountered a link which describes and depicts the aftermath of America's assault on the citizens of Fallujah.

“On 9 November American marines came to our house. My father and the neighbour went to the door to meet them. We were not fighters. We thought we had nothing to fear. I ran into the kitchen to put on my veil, since men were going to enter our house and it would be wrong for them to see me with my hair uncovered.

“This saved my life. As my father and neighbour approached the door, the Americans opened fire on them. They died instantly.

“Me and my 13 year old brother hid in the kitchen behind the fridge. The soldiers came into the house and caught my older sister. They beat her. Then they shot her. But they did not see me. Soon they left, but not before they had destroyed our furniture and stolen the money from my father’s pocket.”

Hudda told me how she comforted her dying sister by reading verses from the Koran. After four hours her sister died. For three days Hudda and her brother stayed with their murdered relatives. But they were thirsty and had only a few dates to eat. They feared the troops would return and decided to try to flee the city. But they were spotted by a US sniper.

Hudda was shot in the leg, her brother ran but was shot in the back and died instantly. “I prepared myself to die,” she told me. “But I was found by an American woman soldier, and she took me to hospital.” She was eventually reunited with the surviving members of her family.

For these Iraqis, pumped full of our bullets while trying to protect their families, there is no freedom or democracy. This is George W. Bush in action; the NeoCon Master Plan in which "freedom" and "democracy" take the form of hot lead from the barrel of gun paid for with our tax dollars.

I could elaborate, but I won't. I'm too sickened and too discouraged and too heartbroken at what my country has become.

related commentary at Arvin Hill: War Crimes... and Me