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Story Suffer Yet More Little Children updated 28/9/03
I am going to say something bloody obvious but I need to say it.
There is a report in today's online Guardian/Observer
that a major "terrorist" attack on British forces in southern
Iraq is "inevitable".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1051230,00.html
When the Nazis overran France and the rest of Europe in 1940, attacks against the occupying troops were known in the free world as resistance and were considered heroic. The Nazis referred to acts of resistance as terrorism.
Now we are the occupiers we too say terrorism when we mean resistance to occupation.
The same edition of the Guardian/Observer carries a report about killings of Iraqi civilians by US occupiers . A week ago a 14-year-old boy was shot dead, a few days a go a 2-year-old child, and yesterday a man, his wife, and her mother.
Now let's discuss terrorism and resistance. Bring along a rocket scientist of your choice.
September 28 '03
POLITICIAN TALKS
SENSE, SPEAKS TRUTH
World rocks on
axis
Today we have a new hero: Michael Meacher,
former environment minister, who in the Guardian announced clearly
that Bush let the September 11 attacks happen to provide him with
his pretext to launch the war against terror — which is no
more than a smokescreen to further the neo-conservative project of
world domination.
And this is exactly what I have been saying since that September 11. And this is what Gore Vidal has been saying. So now that's three of us saying it. Only another six billion voices and we have unanimity.
Read Meacher's article if you haven't already.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1036571,00.html
And here's something about the furore
that Meacher has caused
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1036591,00.html
Riverbend: Blogging from Baghdad
For an extraodinary insight into life and politics in occupied Iraq follow this link to the Riverbend Blog http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ The blogger is an anonymous 24-year-old Iraqi woman living in Baghdad who goes by her nom de blog Riverbend. She is articulate, funny and scathing: a natural born writer — and she has something to say. Most importantly she blows away that intellect-stunting feature of war: the fog of partisan reporting.
Once more: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
Thanks to Jerry for pointing me at this site.
September 5, 2003