tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post1695941599359350206..comments2024-02-15T21:24:23.524-08:00Comments on Today in The Endless War: War News for Friday, April 09, 2010Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-27342173498134403892010-04-10T11:18:17.117-07:002010-04-10T11:18:17.117-07:00Thewiz: enjoy your swim. After all, it will be the...Thewiz: enjoy your swim. After all, it will be the nearest you ever get to joining the Navy or Marines.Black Fridayhttp://dexter13noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-7237454211484942092010-04-10T00:56:47.708-07:002010-04-10T00:56:47.708-07:00photos under Yahoo News, soon to be posted on my b...photos under Yahoo News, soon to be posted on my blog Faces of Grief.Dancewaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733269960341895623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-41135125971055442212010-04-10T00:56:10.908-07:002010-04-10T00:56:10.908-07:00hey, just was looking at the photos of today's...hey, just was looking at the photos of today's massive rally - and found out the Iraqi people have something in common with the teabaggers: they can't spell English words correctly!<br /><br />Of course, the Iraqis have the excuse of not having English as their first language. Teabaggers cannot say that.<br /><br />They burned and walked on US, UK and Israeli flags, they also burned Obama, Gates, Biden, and Sharon in effigy. They put pictures of the faces of Obama, Gates and Biden on a fake tank. Their faces were bloody.<br /><br />And one of the signs they carried said: AMERICA IS THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD.<br /><br />They are definitely opposed to the ongoing US occupation of Iraq. <br /><br />And since 2 US soldiers were killed and five injured today - how come they weren't on their base?Dancewaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733269960341895623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-20021421366057348522010-04-09T22:58:16.955-07:002010-04-09T22:58:16.955-07:00Massive anti-occupation protests in Iraq today - t...Massive anti-occupation protests in Iraq today - they burned US,UK and Israeli flags. They hold these protests every year on April 9th since 2004. <br /><br />http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122858&sectionid=351020201<br /><br />http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/04/20104983512528239.htmlDancewaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733269960341895623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-51563107613166536742010-04-09T21:16:32.480-07:002010-04-09T21:16:32.480-07:00people and governments can buy weapons from all ov...people and governments can buy weapons from all over - and Saddam stopped being our 'friend' in 1990 when he invaded Kuwait.Dancewaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733269960341895623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-19807414741026771892010-04-09T21:15:16.946-07:002010-04-09T21:15:16.946-07:00Five years on ...
I was in Iraq in February 2003,...Five years on ...<br /><br />I was in Iraq in February 2003, just days before the start of the United States-led invasion which led to the downfall of Saddam Hussein.<br /><br />Before departing Baghdad, ahead of the first air strikes, I decided to track her down.<br /><br />She was living in the outskirts of the Iraqi capital with her family. And while the entire country was in turmoil over the impending bombing campaign, in the Hamza home, her family's primary concern was still Mariam's health.<br /><br />Despite a minor relapse, I found her in decent health.<br /><br />Sanctions meant the medicines she needed were tough to come by and her parents told me it was a full-time job getting Mariam's drugs from Jordan.<br /><br />Despite her blindness and other physical disabilities caused by leukaemia, Mariam still had a sunny disposition.<br /><br />She could not see me but acknowledged my presence with a beautiful smile that I will never forget.<br /><br />The bitterness I could sense among her family members about the circumstances surrounding her condition had evidently not rubbed off on her.<br /><br />She was one of the happiest children I had ever met, and the two hours or so we spent together were magical.<br /><br /><br /><br />Birth defects on the rise again<br /><br />Since that meeting in Baghdad, I have often thought of Mariam - a child who had survived against all odds. And I thought of her again last week as it emerged that hundreds more children are being born with horrendous disabilities following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.<br /><br />Doctors in the city of Fallujah are reporting high numbers of birth defects. Hospitals in the affected areas say they are treating several cases of abnormalities every day and the World Health Organisation is investigating claims that the sophisticated weapons used by US troops during the invasion are to blame.<br /><br />The incidence of heart defects among newborn babies in the area is said to be 13 times higher than in Europe. Doctors in the city are treating children suffering from paralysis and brain damage - and several newspapers published a photograph of a baby born with three heads.<br /><br />Women in Fallujah are now being discouraged from having babies.<br /><br />The Americans have funded many of the new hospitals in Iraq - and rightly so.<br /><br />But it remains to be seen what compensation, if any, will be forthcoming in light of the latest findings on birth defects.<br /><br />I find it tragic that 16 years after Mariam's birth, a whole new generation of similar cases are emerging. It seems no lessons were learnt from the tragic case of Mariam Hamza and we can only pray that the Obama administration does all it can to somehow ease the huge burden now facing hundreds, if not thousands, of Iraqi families.Dancewaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733269960341895623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-30573372218975220222010-04-09T21:15:07.017-07:002010-04-09T21:15:07.017-07:00A child who survived against all odds
16 years on...A child who survived against all odds<br /><br />16 years on, it seems no lessons were learnt from the tragic case of Mariam Hamza<br /><br /><br /><br />It's not often that a story which I have covered has reduced me to tears.<br /><br />Staring into a mass grave in Kosovo containing the charred remains of 50 Albanian men, women and children was one.<br /><br />Another was an interview with an Iraqi teacher whose wife and five daughters were boiled alive after missiles tore into water-filled tanks in the basement of a building where they were hiding.<br /><br />But my meeting with Mariam Hamza - a blind nine-year-old cancer victim - probably affected me more than any other.<br /><br />Mariam's father Hamza Abd had been an Iraqi soldier during the first Gulf War and had been exposed to fall-out from uranium-tipped missiles. As a result of the radioactive build-up in his system, his daughter had been born with leukaemia.<br /><br />Botched radiation treatment at the Saddam Children's Hospital in Baghdad had left her blind when she was just a toddler.<br /><br />In February 1998, when a British MP visiting Iraq stumbled upon her, she was close to death. Her story, highlighted by the British MP, touched hearts around the world and soon she became the poster child for campaign groups fighting United Nations sanctions against Iraq.<br /><br />In April of that same year, Mariam was flown to Glasglow for cancer treatment which saved her life. But after returning to Iraq six months later, Mariam dropped out of sight and little was known about her condition.Dancewaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733269960341895623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-74840171747563219182010-04-09T19:01:59.399-07:002010-04-09T19:01:59.399-07:00.
The Taliban received a small amount of aid to ....<br /><br /><br />The Taliban received a small amount of aid to help with a severe drought. And if Saddam was "our friend" then why was all the military equipment we destroyed there. . . tanks, helicopters, aircraft, artillery, ammo, heavy trucks, all from the Soviet Union or Cold war era Eastern Europe???<br /><br />Your pathetic. You let your own hatred hide the facts.<br /><br />Think I'll go for a swim. . . .<br /><br /><br />.thewizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16024414013645879049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-4148637206619803782010-04-09T16:51:45.401-07:002010-04-09T16:51:45.401-07:00yeah, thewiz will never be the one to actually fig...yeah, thewiz will never be the one to actually fight - too much of a wimp. He will not even take a serious look at reality, because he is such a bed-wetter.Dancewaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733269960341895623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-50170609593693865862010-04-09T16:51:01.938-07:002010-04-09T16:51:01.938-07:00Taliban were getting money from the USA in the sum...Taliban were getting money from the USA in the summer of 2001. And OBL was on the CIA payroll until.... who knows when.<br /><br />And Saddam was our friend until he invaded Kuwait. And he was responsible for two wars of aggression, but then, the USA does two (or more) wars of aggression every single decade.Dancewaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733269960341895623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-73715824754205339802010-04-09T12:29:00.215-07:002010-04-09T12:29:00.215-07:00Thewiz is a person who thinks that wars in Iraq an...Thewiz is a person who thinks that wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are worth "paying the price for". Just as long as he is not paying that price with his own flesh. "Worth fighting for" just as long as he does not have to get himself down to the recruiting office and pick up his tin hat and gun. But he would be prepared to fight to the last drop of somebody elses blood, trust me on that.Black Fridayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05950303583844489784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-22261201163277799872010-04-09T11:47:32.571-07:002010-04-09T11:47:32.571-07:00Way to go C, I knew you could do it.
As for Iraq...Way to go C, I knew you could do it. <br /><br />As for Iraq, the only way to contain Saddam was by surrounding him with large military forces. He proved that by invading two countries and attacking two more. He attacked Israel, hoping that the entire ME would then be engulfed in war. What a psycho. . . .he couldn't be left in power.<br /><br />Since Iraq has a very long border with SA, that necessitated troops in SA. So it was either ignore Saddam's aggressions or piss off OBL. Tough choice.<br /><br />OBL was actually angered that the Saudi Royal Family went to the US for help and turned down his offer to bring in his fighters from A'stan. The Saudis didn't trust his rag-tag bunch of zealots and didn't want them in country. They knew once there, they would never leave. OBL didn't like being rejected as he was such a hero after ejecting the Soviets out of A'stan. It was his huge ego that was damaged.thewizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16024414013645879049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-82278190761475159842010-04-09T11:20:25.793-07:002010-04-09T11:20:25.793-07:00I guess those "RADICAL ISLAMISTS" are to...I guess those "RADICAL ISLAMISTS" are too dumb to figure out that Russia does not play western music and movies, but Sweden, Norway, and Finland DO.<br /><br />They are so dumb they remind me of someone else who is really, really dumb and ALSO thinks killing off innocent people (as long as they are MUSLIM innocent people) is an okay thing..... They remind me of thewiz!!!<br /><br /><br />swimming, swimming, in oceans of innocent blood......Dancewaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733269960341895623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-26738619921644390242010-04-09T11:18:12.473-07:002010-04-09T11:18:12.473-07:00THEY HATE RUSSIA FOR THEIR FREEDOMS TOO!!!
HA HA...THEY HATE RUSSIA FOR THEIR FREEDOMS TOO!!!<br /><br /><br />HA HA HA HA HA!!!!<br /><br />And it has nothing to do with occupying their countries, destroying their infrastructure or killing their innocent babies!!!<br /><br />Those two suicide bombers in Russia were WIDOWS from Russian aggression, but the REAL reason those widows blew themselves up was western music and movies and sexual behavior.<br /><br />We all know that Russia only plays western music and movies!!!!<br /><br />Funny how they hate Russia for those western music and movies but not Sweden, Norway or Finland.Dancewaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733269960341895623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-35878587322862830662010-04-09T11:11:29.260-07:002010-04-09T11:11:29.260-07:00All that may be true Wiz, but it has nothing to do...All that may be true Wiz, but it has nothing to do with 9/11 and certainly is not a good reason to for example, invade Iraq.Cervanteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-31564686291467889022010-04-09T10:18:33.335-07:002010-04-09T10:18:33.335-07:00Their concern is with the Islamic heartland, Abso...<i>Their concern is with the Islamic heartland,</i> Absolutely. And our freedoms are encroaching on their society and power structure. The younger generations dress like us, play our music, and want our freedoms. The Islamic heartland is under pressure and they know it. And to deny that is dishonest.<br /><br />I don't know if your lying to me or to yourself. But anyone that looks at the Muslim world knows that this clash of civilizations has been ongoing for decades and is accelerated by modern communications and increased trade between the two societies. <br /><br />The world is changing and they are trying to isolate themselves from these changes.thewizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16024414013645879049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-37927563685400077072010-04-09T09:24:07.208-07:002010-04-09T09:24:07.208-07:00wiz,
you are full of shit mate.
Osama Bin Laden!!h...wiz,<br />you are full of shit mate.<br />Osama Bin Laden!!hahaha,<br /><br />I´ve only one thing to say and that is WTC7Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-9802496966887243542010-04-09T07:04:07.134-07:002010-04-09T07:04:07.134-07:00It has no merit whatsoever. They wouldn't giv...It has no merit whatsoever. They wouldn't give a shit what we do if the U.S. wasn't a major military, diplomatic and financial presence in the Middle East. They wouldn't want to live in a liberal society, but that isn't why they attacked U.S. interests. Their concern is with the Islamic heartland, not North America.Cervanteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8812043282272915800.post-48900432017250575162010-04-09T07:00:10.268-07:002010-04-09T07:00:10.268-07:00.
C- Sorry but I didn't shift any premise; I....<br /><br />C- Sorry but I didn't shift any premise; I stated right from the getgo that "they" was defined as radical Islamists. There, "they" is more than just el Queda, it includes all Islamic terror groups.<br /><br />Furthermore, I stated that OBL's hatred for the US predated our positioning of troops in SA. You are ignoring that fact because it harms your position.<br /><br />And even if that is the beginning of divide between western society and the Muslim world, which it is not, that still doesn't exclude other factors from being aggravating circumstances.<br /><br />Are you trying to claim that the encroachment of western morals, or lack thereof, is of no consequences to fundamentalist Muslims? Do you want to claim that open sexual and gay behaviors, western clothing, music, and movies have no affect on the radical religious zealots? Are you really trying to claim that the name "the Great Satan" has nothing to do with our perceived lack of morals?<br /><br />Come on, admit, "they hate us for our freedoms" has some merit. It won't hurt that bad. Only a little. Promise.<br /><br />.thewizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16024414013645879049noreply@blogger.com