Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 193

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1. 

   RubDMC on December 8, 2005 at 1:50 pm

   

   Click on the candle to copy the image into your own comment (you can leave it on my server), and/or rate this one – not for mojo, but to leave a small mark after taking this moment.

   ” I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
   from Dirge Without Music
   by Edna St. Vincent Millay

2. 

   ubikkibu on December 8, 2005 at 1:54 pm

   

   Please don’t support Democrats who won’t work to end our occupation of Iraq.

3. 

   Man Eegee on December 8, 2005 at 1:57 pm

   

   …that he will be able to return to his family safely.

4. 

   dada on December 8, 2005 at 2:00 pm

   

   Peace

5. 

   ask on December 8, 2005 at 2:10 pm

   
   Bus bombing kills 30 in Baghdad

6. 

   alohaleezy on December 8, 2005 at 3:01 pm

   Yet another family torn to shreads.

7. 

   Oui on December 8, 2005 at 3:18 pm

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   IT’S TIME TO CLEAN-UP CONGRESS IN 2006!

     «« click on pic to enlarge

   LEAVE Iraq to the Iraqis

   “Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
   For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”  

   ▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY

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   DuctapeFatwa on December 8, 2005 at 3:36 pm

   Dr. Walid Al-Obeidi, the director of Haditha General Hospital and Dr. Jamil Abdul Jabbar, the only surgeon in the Haditha area were arrested for a week, very badly beaten and threatened to face the same treatment in the future by the American troops.

   Dr.Walid said “they arrested me in my house in front of my family, covered my eyes, and tied my hands to the back on Oct 5 2005 morning, during the last attack on Haditha (360 kilometers west of Baghdad). They occupied the hospital for 8 days and made it their office. The first day they beat me on my eyes, nose, back, hands, legs…  My face was covered with blood .When they removed the tie I could not see. They investigated me until the afternoon. I realized later that I was arrested in the hospital store. Then they tied my hands to the front, and left me for two days. I was moved then to the pharmacy department. They accused me of treating terrorists, and asked for their names.

   I told them that I treat patients regardless of their identity, according to my oath as a doctor; even if they were national guards (which we actually I did) or American soldiers…

   Dr. Jamil, a surgeon for 20 years, was arrested and very badly beaten. When we met him, 22 days later, his face was still blue. His nose was broken, and a big opening in his head: “They beat me on my eyes and nose, kicked me with boots under my chin. One of them threatened me if I do not talk after he counts to three, he would shoot me. He began counting, after three he turned the gun upside down and hit me on the back of my head. For days I could not move or see. They threatened us of abusing our families. For some reason they took my picture while I was bleeding, I could hear the camera click”.

   Both doctors were threatened if they do not talk, they would receive the same treatment in the future. They were warned of passing any information of the arrest to the media. They were asked who wrote the hostile slogans against the American on the opposite wall of the hospital?…

   A young man, H.Khalaf, was lying on a trolley, soaked in blood. He was shot in his genitals by an American sniper while he was going home from the market just across the street. The shot injured his right thigh, his testes, and went out through his left thigh.

   “There was nothing, no shooting, no bombing, nothing” a neighbor who brought Khalaf to the hospital said. “We heard the shot, and he was lying there bleeding. We could not reach him. He crawled to the side street for few minutes”. The doctor does not know yet how bad the injury is. The bleeding was still running.

   In the ward another young man, Salah Hamid, was shot under the belt too. He was driving his taxi at 10 am on Monday Oct17, 2005 in the market place when he was shot by the American snipers. Salah was so angry that he cried and used obscene words (unacceptable in those areas). His car was completely ruined. The doctor explained that a large part of his intestine had to be cut.

   In the doctors’ hall, the windows, the curtains, the walls were covered with bullet shots….

   The hospital’s assistant director described how bad and difficult the situation is, the continuous bombing of houses and cars, the snipers who shoot indiscriminately any moving thing (two days ago they killed 6 donkeys), the besieged city, the closed highway “I do not understand why they cut the high way and let families go through the desert, they are searching everything and everybody! Now, on top of everything else, the oxegen tubes are not allowed in the hospital”…

   In the emergency ward, a girl of ten was lying on one trolley, and a young woman on another. They were still conscious. The girl, Yosr Jasim Mohammad Al-Ta’i, 10, (going to 5th grade, as she said proudly), was injured in her feet, back, and right ear, which were covered with blood.  She did not know that she is the only survivor of a family of 8. Her father, her mother Ibtisam Thiyab Othman, and five of her brothers and sister were buried dead under the rubbles when the American airplanes bombed Al-Ish village at 2 am…

   `Even during operations, doctors were shot at by US soldiers’

   “The Americans had cut the city’s access to the hospital, so we had to set up a field hospital. Those were terrible days. We had to amputate legs with nothing but heavily diluted local anaesthetics. We had to suture wounds with common thread and needles. During and right after the fourth night, the night of the cluster bombs, we were no longer doctors, but gatherers of limbs. We looked out for heads that could fit with other body parts. One man only had a collection of limbs as the last remembrance of his wife and children….

   nerdified link

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     alohaleezy on December 8, 2005 at 3:42 pm

     OMG! OMG! OMG!

     We MUST stop this madness. We are doing more harm than is imaginable.

9. 

   jimstaro on December 8, 2005 at 6:03 pm

   Now Says War Wouldn’t Have Happened, If Only———-!!! {Say What Woflie?}

   
   Light A Candle For
   Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
   and For Innocence Lost!

   Wolfowitz Says Iraq War Might Not Have Occurred if United States Knew Hussein Had No WMD

   What Iraqi Forces?
   Elizabeth Spiro Clark
   December 08, 2005

   No one is playing with a full deck of cards on the great “withdraw from Iraq” game. To the American public’s ear, “training Iraqi forces” means training forces under the control of the “Iraqi government” with the aim of turning over to them the job of fighting jihadists and the insurgency so the U.S. can withdraw. But this is not the reality behind the words.

   
   Iraq Constitution:  
   Article 111:
   Article 117:

   The Real Spirit Of The Season

   

   “I think it’s more important to put Christ back into our war planning than into our Christmas cards.”

   — Rev. Bob Edgar, a former Democratic congressman, in response to right-wingers who are angry that the presidential greeting card (pictured above) doesn’t mention Christmas.

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    shermanesqe on December 8, 2005 at 6:26 pm