Hi there. This blog is by way of being an experiment. I've been posting news items for The Daily Grail website for a few months now, and thanks to Greg Taylor there for affording me the opportunity to exercise the little gray cells. However, there have been many many news stories that were not suitable for TDG that still got me worked up. Hopefully, I will be able to exorcise those stories here. The first story is a holdover from Daily Grail...
PICTURES OF FALLUJAH
Dear Friends,
I know we try to keep politics out of TDG, but in this case it is simply too important to ignore. Please have a look at these pictures. They are harrowing, they show injured soldiers, injured Iraquis, mutilated children - casualties caused by BOTH sides. I for one will not turn my head away. No matter each of our opinions on why the war began,we owe each and every one of these fellow human beings the honour of not looking away. If it were my brother wounded in uniform, or my child left without a limb after an artillery bombardment....either way, I cannot promise that I would still be unbiased. It is up to those of us who have not yet been through that polarising experience to counsel peace while we still may, before generations of hate rage unstemmed. For the sake of the children. Please.
Regards, C
To see the original comments on this item over at The Daily Grail click here.
2 comments:
Hi Dianne,
I happen to agree with you - however I also understand the point of view of the original commentor (AMI, I believe). Do you remember years ago how some psychologist did experiments where people were encouraged to give others electric shocks and told it was just part of the experiment? All the subjects except one participated fully, no matter how upset they became. In a situation where military conditioning has already taken hold, or where due to the peer pressure of other military wives the same conditioning is accepted, maybe going to jail or being out of a job really is worse than shelling innocent children? Obviously, the same holds true for the fundementalist insurgents who can carry out beheadings, although there I suspect the penalties for disobedience may be a bit harsher. I dont know that for sure mind you.
Regards, C
I think what happens with the soldiers is that a lot of them have not got jobs, cannot get jobs, are poorly educated and have no other real choice.The front line in Iraq as I saw on TV was a black battallion from the south.
They are not prepared for what they are going to see happen and what they are required to do.
Here's an example.....
I wrote just now on TDG about the soldiers killed at Gallipoli.Australia has never had a war of it's own, we have always fought other peoples' wars.
The Anzac attack at Gallipoli was in fact an invasion of Turkey for no reason other than Churchill's.
The young men in Australia, many poor,many from the country, many uneducated and out of work answered the Brisish call.
Posters were printed and put up in the cities.....
Come On Down to the Dardenelles!!!!
We'll teach those Huns a lesson...
It was like an invitation to a booze-up and the army couldn't get the men into uniforms quick enough.
The Turks held the men off as they landed, killing them as they jumped into the water, and most did not make land.
They dug trenches and died in them, the live using the dead as shields for weeks until the bodies rotted.
When boats with fresh soldiers arrived to replace the dead and wounded they were greeted with warnings from the survivors.
But the new men landed on the beach singing...eager for the fray, the news of the onslaught from the Turks being kept from Australia, and it was a long time before the truth was revealed.
Churchill, knowing the dreadful beating the Anzacs were taking held them there, hoping to keeps the Turks busy.It was an impossible situation.
To Churchill our men were colonials and expendable.
Ask the British Tommy how expendable Churchill found them.They were all numbers.
I don't think the young American soldiers going to Iraq quite realise what the war is going to be like.They maybe imagine it is like war games and the ones shot will be far away.
Killing someone who is looking at you and who is wanting to kill you is a very different proposition from shooting targets.
Churchill was a psychopath.....he had to be to not be at all affected by what he was doing.
It makes you think about who is ordering the war in Iraq.
shadows
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