Friday, July 16, 2004
Our Gift of Freedom
This story from the NY Times relates the scenes at recently opened passport offices in Iraq:
At one point, Iraqi policemen charged at the crowd, wielding batons. A couple of shots were fired in the air. The line, if it can be called that, disintegrated and the crowd retreated toward a barbed wire fence before lunging forward again.
Jobless, rattled, fed up, Iraqis are dreaming of getting out.
"Escape from Iraq" is how Muhammad Kadhum, 26, a college student, described his intentions. "I cannot live here in Iraq. I cannot feel like a man."
Zeinab Heart, 24, waiting in black in the already wilting midmorning heat for a chance to move to her husband's native Lebanon, lamented: "I want to get out. I want my children to live in a peaceful place."
And here is another story detailing Iraq's brain drain in Al Jazeera:
More than 1000 leading Iraqi professionals and intellectuals have been assassinated since last April, among them such prominent figures as Dr Muhammad al-Rawi, the president of Baghdad University.
The Al Jazeera unsupported claim that Israel may be behind the assassination of Iraqi intellectuals should be taken with a big grain of salt. The killing of large numbers of Doctors, Professors, Engineers and other intellectuals however, is well documented and not just by Al Jazeera. The question remains, who is intentionally wiping out these people and encouraging educated Iraqi's who can get out of the country to leave?
If things continue on the present path Iraq may well become a basket case. As in most places around the world where things go to hell in a hand basket it is the talented and able who leave first. This exodus accelerates the slide into chaos for those who remain and invites dictatorship. So much for the promise of "a shining example of peace and democracy in the Middle East".
This is one of the reasons why you don't start wars after only reading the Cliff Notes version of intelligence reports and ignoring the warnings of career intelligence officials, military leaders, foreign service officials, close allies of 50 years and common goddamn sense! The other reason is, it is pre-meditated murder on a vast scale. Add to this the fact that the justifications for the said war have been proven to be false and now you are in war crimes territory.
Impeach Bush!
This story from the NY Times relates the scenes at recently opened passport offices in Iraq:
At one point, Iraqi policemen charged at the crowd, wielding batons. A couple of shots were fired in the air. The line, if it can be called that, disintegrated and the crowd retreated toward a barbed wire fence before lunging forward again.
Jobless, rattled, fed up, Iraqis are dreaming of getting out.
"Escape from Iraq" is how Muhammad Kadhum, 26, a college student, described his intentions. "I cannot live here in Iraq. I cannot feel like a man."
Zeinab Heart, 24, waiting in black in the already wilting midmorning heat for a chance to move to her husband's native Lebanon, lamented: "I want to get out. I want my children to live in a peaceful place."
And here is another story detailing Iraq's brain drain in Al Jazeera:
More than 1000 leading Iraqi professionals and intellectuals have been assassinated since last April, among them such prominent figures as Dr Muhammad al-Rawi, the president of Baghdad University.
The Al Jazeera unsupported claim that Israel may be behind the assassination of Iraqi intellectuals should be taken with a big grain of salt. The killing of large numbers of Doctors, Professors, Engineers and other intellectuals however, is well documented and not just by Al Jazeera. The question remains, who is intentionally wiping out these people and encouraging educated Iraqi's who can get out of the country to leave?
If things continue on the present path Iraq may well become a basket case. As in most places around the world where things go to hell in a hand basket it is the talented and able who leave first. This exodus accelerates the slide into chaos for those who remain and invites dictatorship. So much for the promise of "a shining example of peace and democracy in the Middle East".
This is one of the reasons why you don't start wars after only reading the Cliff Notes version of intelligence reports and ignoring the warnings of career intelligence officials, military leaders, foreign service officials, close allies of 50 years and common goddamn sense! The other reason is, it is pre-meditated murder on a vast scale. Add to this the fact that the justifications for the said war have been proven to be false and now you are in war crimes territory.
Impeach Bush!
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