sexta-feira, julho 15, 2005

 

Imagine

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071005X.shtml
Has any western government kept a single second of silence for the
countless iraquis who have been slaughtered so far by the war criminals who went
there
to bring "democracy" and "freedom"?
Are we, westerners, "ubermensch"?
How much civilian iraqui blood has been
shed for each of our own casualties?

From the whole article, my highlight goes to these 2 paragraphs.

The most shocking was given by Dahr Jamail, one of the best un-embedded
reporters working in Iraq. He described how the hospitals of besieged
Fallujah had been subjected to an American tactic of collective
punishment, with US marines assaulting staff and stopping the wounded
entering, and American snipers firing at the doors and windows, and
medicines and emergency blood prevented from reaching them. Children,
the elderly, were shot dead in front of their families, in cold blood.

Imagine for a moment the same appalling state of affairs imposed on
the London hospitals that received the victims of Thursday's bombing.
Unimaginable? Well, it happens, in our name, regardless of whether the
BBC reports it, which is rare. When will someone ask about this at one
of the staged "press conferences" at which Blair is allowed to emote
for the cameras stuff about "our values outlast [ing] theirs"? Silence
is not journalism. In Fallujah, they know "our values" only too well.




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