this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war
we love and support our troops, just as we love and support the Iraqi people – without exception, or precondition, or judgment
we have no sympathy for the devil
image and poem below the fold
Men look through the glass window of a bakery after an attack by gunmen in Baghdad, November 16, 2006.
(Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud/Reuters)
A boy looks at blood, clothes and footwear belonging to bakers after an attack by gunmen in Baghdad, November 16, 2006.
(Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud/Reuters)
Relatives gather at the morgue at Kindi hospital to collect bodies of the victims of a bakery shooting in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006. Gunmen opened fire on a bakery, killing nine people.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Credo
by Andrew Zawacki
You say wind is only wind
& carries nothing nervous
in its teeth.
I do not believe it.
I have seen leaves desist
from moving
although the branches
move, & I
believe a cyclone has secrets
the weather is ignorant of.
I believe
in the violence of not knowing.
I’ve seen a river lose its course
& join itself again,
watched it court
a stream & coax the stream
into its current,
& I have seen
rivers, not unlike
you, that failed to find
their way back.
I believe the rapport
between water & sand, the advent
from mirror to face.
I believe in rain
to cover what mourns,
in hail that revives
& sleet that erodes, believe
whatever falls
is a figure of rain
& now I believe in torrents that take
everything down with them.
The sky calls it quits,
or so I believe,
when air, or earth, or air
has had enough.
I believe in disquiet,
the pressure it plies, believe a cloud
to govern the limits of night.
I say I,
but little is left to say it, much less
mean it–
& yet I do.
Let there be
no mistake:
I do not believe
things are reborn in fire.
They’re consumed by fire
& the fire has a life of its own.
The candle that DianeL first lit many months ago, and which has become such an important part of these diaries since, is still available here.
You can copy that image into your own comment (you can leave it on my server), craft your own image, and/or rate this one – not for mojo, but to leave a small mark after taking this moment – as a sign that you know, but do not approve, and are not resigned.
Would you say this is the beginning of the tet of this war?!
This is so disheartening. We must leave now!
On in earnest.
AP Just In: Shiites (militiamen) burn six Sunni worshippers alive and Iraqi solders did not intervene.
“BAGHDAD, Iraq – Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left Friday worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near Iraqi soldiers who did not intervene, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said.”
While we hold our vigil for peace, leaders continue to avoid the recognition that this is a civil war.
We won’t stop until the last gun is silenced.
‘US troops kill four’ on Iraq bus
Light A Candle For
Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
and For The Children – Innocence Lost,
And The Perpetual Conflict Future We Have Given Them!
“We’ll Buy A Flag…….”
We have a failed Federal Government! No oversite, checks and balances, investigations, opposition, now for over Six Long and Ugly Partison Years! Will the change in power, coming to the Peoples Congress change things, We’ll Be Watching! But there Must Be ‘Investigations’, in Many Area’s, but Especially as to this so called ‘War on Terrorism’, Iraq, War Profiteering……! Much Proof already in Public Domaine, if investigations lead to ‘Impeachment’ so be it, than Indictments of ALL Involved!!
peace