[PAA-Discuss] Another Outrage

Tue May 26 19:23:15 EDT 2009

I will ask all of you who voted for Barack Obama the same question Cindy
Sheehan asks at the end of her article:

WHERE'S THE CHANGE??!!!!

Read the article below and read it again for good measure and LEARN, PEOPLE.
STOP making the same mistakes over and over and over again by continuing to
believe there is one iota of difference between the Republicans and the
Democrats. THERE ISN'T! Stop voting until we get a government that is
operated by the workers, for the workers and of the workers and one that
isn't run on behalf of a foreign government: ISRAEL. 

You don't have any representation in government and you never will under
this system. Barack Obama is a fascist who supports the terrorist state of
Israel and who loves war and more war and death and destruction and he
doesn't give a shit about anything else except perhaps lining his own filthy
pockets and wielding power over everybody else. 

Stop ignoring the truth as it stares you squarely in the face. To those of
you who voted for Barack Obama, I hope you are ashamed of yourself because
you should be. You had a choice. You could've stayed at home and not voted
or you could've voted for Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader or one of the
Socialist Equality Party candidates. You chose not to and that will forever
be your shame. 

Kris

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22711.htm

Another Outrage

By Cindy Sheehan

May 26, 2009 " <http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/42995>
AfterDowningSt" -- Last week, after being bombarded with pseudo-patriotic
images of graveyards, gravestones and flags, I decided to begin posting
images of maimed and killed Iraqis, but especially children and transform
the mega-pseudo-patriotic Memorial Day to Remembrance of Victims of US
Empire Day.

I got a great response to this and my friend and videographer, Clifford
Roddy put together a short film called: finaledit, with the images I posted
and with images that he took at a national cemetery in Santa Fe, NM where we
were together for my Myth America book tour. I have a Cindy Sheehan You Tube
page so we posted it there.

The video was just yanked off of You Tube because it "violates the terms of
service" but even before it was yanked, it had a warning: "This video is
unsuitable for children."

The pictures of the dead and maimed Iraqi children were gruesome. War is
gruesome. War is never pretty but the Iraqi war has been "Sanitized for your
protection." It's not enough that adult males have been tortured but
thousands of women and children have also been imprisoned and cruelly
treated.

I think it's pretty gruesome that the US Military has held up to 6000
juveniles in its torture prisons in the Middle East and there has been rape
and torture reported to individuals as young as 10 years old! How can any
human being torture another human being, much less a child? These kinds of
stories remind me of the most horrendous slasher movies that I can think of,
but they are not the pretend product of twisted fantasy, but factual and
mind-blowingly real.

Former US Soldier, Steven Green, was recently given life in prison without
the possibility of parole for the 2007 rape, mutilation and murder of a
14-year-old girl in Mahmoudiya, Iraq. Not only was Green the ringleader in
the rape and murder; the squad also killed her family.

Unfortunately, even though Green was a "bad apple," the situation we find
ourselves in is an entire salad of rotten fruit and incidences like this one
are not uncommon, but rarely reported.

Once when I was in Amman, Jordan speaking with prominent Iraqis, a Sheikh
told me that US soldiers burst into his home, severely beating him and
raping his wife, all in the presence of his 14-year-old son. The Sheikh told
me that it was his son's fondest dream to kill US Soldiers. Can you imagine
this happening to your family? What if something like this happened in your
home? You're sitting around watching American Idol, or some crap like that,
and Iraqis break into your home and terrorize and brutalize your family? I
am sure you would all just chalk it up to "freedom and democracy" and be
happy to go about your miserable lives comforted by the fact that your
country was being occupied and destroyed for your own good.

During the US-UN-Clinton led sanctions against Iraq, the UN estimates that
over 500,000 children died from starvation, disease, or violence. 500,000
Iraqi children would be like 5,000,000 US children dying. Former UN
Ambassador under Clinton called that sacrifice for US Empire by the children
of Iraq "worth it." Over one million people have died in Iraq since Bush's
invasion in 2003 and most of that figure counts women and children.

I have spoken to men who were still in their teens who were sodomized with
broom handles in Guantanamo. I have seen the horrific photos of the US's
inhumanity to man and cannot forgive my country for the terror it has
unleashed on the world. I can't stand the fact that our government operates
with such craven cowardice and has harmed so many people while Americans
revel in blissful ignorance.

Young people who never get a chance to live their lives have their lives
snuffed out so corporations can profit and politicians can earn their John
Wayne, muy macho credentials and I wish that we could get a movement going
that would be as large and as angry about weddings parties being blown up in
Iraq-Af-Pak as they are about inequality in marriage rights here in the US.
Please don't email me with hostility because I wrote about marriage
equality: I am 100% for marriage equality, but I am also 100% for people
living to be able to be married whether they are gay or straight. Lives are
in the balance and our inaction is tipping the scale in the wrong direction.

I am sorry (sarcasm) that our video "violated" You Tube's terms of service,
but the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan not only violate my terms of
service, but international law.

--
"Where's the Change?"

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