Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 197

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1. 

   RubDMC on December 12, 2005 at 8:51 am

   

   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

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   Oui on December 12, 2005 at 9:21 am

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   Iraq Economy Must Be Booming

   
   Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Newkirk of the 101st Airborne Division pays an Iraqi man who was accidentally shot during a raid on his home, in Beiji, Iraq. The U.S. Army's Civil Military Operations Center at Forward Operating Base Summerall in Beiji, Iraq, meets with Iraqis to compensate them for grievances every weekend.  AP Photo/Ryan Lenz

   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

3. 

   ask on December 12, 2005 at 9:21 am

   
   Abuse Alleged at Iraqi Detention Center

4. 

   alohaleezy on December 12, 2005 at 10:18 am

   And who’s child, Iraqi OR American shall we ask to be the last to die?

   OUT OF IRAQ NOW!

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   DuctapeFatwa on December 12, 2005 at 10:33 am

   While the Iraqi people are struggling to end the U.S. military Occupation and its associated violence, the fate of their food sources and agricultural heritage is being looted behind closed doors. Unless the colonisation of Iraq ends, the U.S. Occupation of Iraq will continue to have lasting and disastrous effects on Iraq’s economy and Iraq’s ability to feed its people.

   Iraq is home to the oldest agricultural traditions in the world. Historical, genetic and archaeological evidence, including radiocarbon dating of carbon-containing materials at the site, show that the Fertile Crescent, including modern Iraq, was the centre of domestication for a remarkable array of today’s primary agricultural crops and livestock animals. Wheat, barley, rye, lentils, sheep, goats, and pigs were all originally brought under human control around 8000 BCE. Iraq is where wild wheat was once originated and many of its cereal varieties have been exported and adapted worldwide. [1] The beginning of agriculture led inexorably to the development of human civilization. [2]…

   Prior to the U.S. war on Iraq, average annual harvests were 1.4 million tonnes for cereals, 400,000 tonnes for roots and tubers, and 38,000 tonnes for pulses. [3] The U.S. war and the US-Britain sponsored sanctions have devastated Iraq’s agricultural sector. Only half of the irrigable area is now properly utilised. Food shortages and malnutrition were less of problem before the war and the criminal sanctions.

   After the 1991 U.S. war, Iraq was denied its right to rebuild its war-shattered economy and infrastructure. U.S.-Britain used the criminal sanctions to destroy what was left of Iraq and kill its children. In plain language, the sanctions were used as a vehicle to terrorise Iraqi civilians…

   Just before announcing his departure from Iraq and handing “power” to the U.S.-installed band of discredited quislings (the so-called “transfer of [fake] sovereignty”), U.S. proconsul and head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), Paul Bremer issued “100 Orders” to transfer Iraq’s economy and legal ownership of Iraqi resources into the private hands of U.S. corporations. Then, to encourage the looting of Iraq’s wealth and increase the suffering of the Iraqi people, the Bush administration issued an “executive order” to indemnify not only the corporate looters from prosecution, but also provides protection to soldiers and private security guards committing crimes against Iraqis. A closer examination of these “100 Orders” and U.S. policy in Iraq shows that the war on Iraq had nothing to do with WMD, terrorism, “democracy” and “liberation,” but to colonise Iraq and enrich U.S. corporations at the expense of the Iraqi people.

   Order 81 deals specifically with Plant Variety Protection (PVP) because it is designed to protect the commercial interests of corporate seed companies. Its aim is to force Iraqi farmers to plant so-called “protected” crop varieties ‘defined as new, distinct uniform and stable’, and most likely genetically modified. This means Iraqi farmers will have one choice; to buy PVP registered seeds…

   Upon purchasing the patented seeds, farmers must sign the company’s technology agreement (Technology User Agreements). This agreement allows the company to control farmers’ practices and conduct property investigation. The farmer becomes the slave of the company. Like U.S. farmers, Iraqi farmers will be “harassed for doing what they have always done.” For example, Iraqi farmers can be sued by Monsanto, if their non-GMO crops are polluted by GMO crops planted in their vicinity. [5] The health and environmental consequences of GMO crops are still unknown. GMO-based agriculture definitely encourages monoculture and genetic pollution. Moreover, this will further increase the already polluted Iraqi environment as a result of tens of thousands of tons of ‘depleted’ uranium dust, napalm, chemical weapons, and phosphorous bombs.

   Farmers will also be required to buy fertilisers, herbicides and insecticides, against plants disease. Iraqi farmers will be required to pay royalties for the new seeds and they will be forbidden from saving seeds. In other words, Iraqi farmers will become agricultural producers for export, a recipe for the introduction of hunger in Iraq…

   The man who is in charge of dismantling Iraq’s agriculture is Daniel Amstutz, formerly an executive of the Cargill Corporation. Cargill is well known for having the reputation of being one the worst violators of the rights and independence of family farmers throughout the world…

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     LookingUp on December 13, 2005 at 5:35 am

     makes me furious. Simply furious.

6. 

   Man Eegee on December 12, 2005 at 12:33 pm

   

   …that together the world united under the flag of Peace.

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     alohaleezy on December 12, 2005 at 1:08 pm

     May I be in your dream?

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       Man Eegee on December 12, 2005 at 1:13 pm

       the way you are living your life, you are helping to make that dream a reality.

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         alohaleezy on December 12, 2005 at 1:39 pm

         I thank you Manny,but I have had you and many others here to set the example. May we all join together to bring about peace in the world.

7. 

   dada on December 12, 2005 at 1:18 pm

   

   Peace

8. 

   jimstaro on December 12, 2005 at 5:48 pm

   
   Light A Candle For
   Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
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   Associated Press Writer

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     Oui on December 13, 2005 at 2:16 am

     In the first day of early voting, about 250,000 Iraqis – soldiers, police, hospital patients and prisoners – cast ballots, according to election official Abdul-Hussein Hendawi.

     To install democracy where every vote counts.

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

     ▼▼▼ READ MY DIARY

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   supersoling on December 12, 2005 at 7:57 pm

   

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    shermanesqe on December 12, 2005 at 8:30 pm

    

11. 

    BrendaStewart on December 12, 2005 at 8:41 pm

    

    peace…..