by AlicetheCurious » Wed May 31, 2006 4:36 am
Just a game?<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The Americans flattened the city nevertheless, raining down munitions of all kinds and sizes, including 2,000-pound and 5,000-pound bombs, on the remaining residents of the city.<br><br>The Iraqi Red Crescent Society, the national equivalent of the Red Cross, estimated that 6,000 people died during that assault; by December 5 the Americans had ordered the Red Crescent to leave the city altogether. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The city hospital was the first building to be destroyed in the bombing, and there are highly credible accounts reporting that napalm was used on the civilian population even though the use of napalm was banned by the United Nations in 1980 and every country in the world, with the single exception of the U.S., has complied with that ban.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Other cities were soon to be subjected to similar atrocities.<br><br>Everyone knew that all this was going to happen, and no one was able to stop it. In a letter sent on October 14 to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Falluja Shura Council, which administers the city, had pleaded: <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"In Falluja, [the Americans] have created a new vague target: al-Zarqawi. Almost a year has elapsed since they created this new pretext and whenever they destroy houses, mosques, restaurants, and kill children and women, they say, `we have launched a successful operation against al-Zarqawi'. The people of Falluja assure you that this person, if he exists, is not in Falluja... and we have no links to any groups supporting such inhuman behaviour. We appeal to you to urge the U.N. [to prevent] the new massacre which the Americans and the puppet government are planning to start soon in Falluja, as well as many parts of the country."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Annan himself took the extraordinary step of writing to Bush and United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair not to undertake these attacks, as did the Association of Muslim Scholars, an organization of the Iraqi ulema representing 3,000 of the country's mosques. Even Ghazi al-Yawar, the interim President of the puppet regime in Iraq, had opposed the impending action: "I completely disagree with people who see a need to settle the Falluja question through military action .. . . It is like someone firing bullets at his horse's head because a fly lands on it; the horse dies and the fly flies away."<br><br>None of it helped, and the planned abomination went ahead anyway, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>barely 10 days after a scholarly study from Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health had sent waves of shock and anger throughout the Arab world when it publicly stated that some 100,000 Iraqi civilians, mostly women and children, had died since the American invasion began in March 2003.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The mentality that the Americans brought into their attack on the people of Falluja was well indicated by <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>the marine commanders who said on record that Falluja was a "house of Satan" and those other commanders who told their soldiers to "shoot everything that moves and everything that does not move"; to fire "two bullets in every body"; and to spray every home with machine-gun and tank fire before entering them.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.blackcommentator.com/123/123_american_descent.html">www.blackcommentator.com/...scent.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
