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
we acknowledge the power to act that is in us
cross-posted at MyLeftWing, BooMan Tribune, and my blog.
images and poem below the fold
The body of a bomb attack victim is brought to a hospital morgue in Baghdad January 16, 2007. A car bomb and a suicide bomber killed 60 people and wounded 110 more, including many students blown up as they waited for cars to take them home at the entrance to a university in Baghdad, police said.
REUTERS/Kareem Raheem (IRAQ)
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by Maurya Simon
Noon. I can connect nothing with nothing.
Perhaps even chaos is cause for celebration.
And perhaps the astrologers are right when they chart
one disaster, one propitious night, one happenstance
of glory to the next so they accrue like an alphabet
in the primer of each person’s life. I read my horoscope
each day, searching for the solitary clue, the sign
signaling my journey’s halt, when I might look up
at last into the stars, connect-the-dots–see, at once,
the bright Virgin standing steadfastly like a silver ship
docked among the midnight swarms, her left hand
beckoning
to me, as if nothing floats between us but the world.
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.
… there were so many victims that the wounded were
piled
up
alongside the dead
on wooden market carts.
peace
United for Peace
DC: 1.27.07
John McCain: The truth.
Light A Candle For
Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
and For The Children – Innocence Lost,
And The Perpetual Conflict Future We Have Given Them!
Gee I wonder why!
Resentment speaks volumes about U.S. standing in the Middle East
“What’s coming is worse than what is now,” columnist and editor Ghassan Tueni wrote in Beirut’s an-Nahar newspaper.
Slowly the mainstream are finally putting out what has been stated over and over outside of them for these past tragic years, Too Little and Way To Late, Damage Done and the Blowback nobody wants to see will be the Reality for many coming years!
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Forced To Recruit Convicts
Escalating the war in Iraq means the military will grant more “moral waivers” — permitting recruits with criminal records and emotional problems who would otherwise be unfit to serve.
And not only those with records, of which how serious, but those who would normally be found that are not as stable as a professional military would require. And as the article points out, what of the ones who once were but after this debacle, especially multiple tours, are no longer!
Someone posted this song yesterday, over at kos, and as a request said it should be sung by the whole crowd on Saturday. I liked it so much I put it to a Video Presentation, and Agree With The Request. Sorry didn’t see any written Lyrics at his site but you can download for free.
Erik Thorson is a songwriter and singer whose musical tastes and styles run from Country to Folk to Country-pop to Americana to Bluegrass to Blues and many places in between. This is basically American Roots music, with some extra electricity–Roots with juice!!.
His Site
He offers this song for free download.
The Man(?)Who Didn’t Go reminds us all that – Hypocrisy isn’t Free and Stupidity isn’t Free.
Good song.
To get the pics in a way to dedicate the first part to this little shit, and the second part to him and his 101st Kombat Keyboard Brigade, who just looooooooove him sooooooo much, thought I did pretty good in a sort of quicky vid, and you’re right it is a Good Song!!
Sources say case workers for wounded laid off
137 killed or found dead across Iraq