Friday, March 14, 2008
No, Wolf, It's Not Just
The Economy, Stupid!
Sorry, Wolf. That's waaaay too easy for you and your colleagues to get away with.0 comments
While we're worrying about the heartbreak of making it from month to month, we're still responsible for hundreds of thousands of human beings who are worrying about making it from minute to minute.
Read/watch Arwa Damon's report for CNN. This is the world you and I have helped create:
'Signs of torture' you can't imagine"They took my husband away in front of me. I found his body in the morgue a few days later. He had multiple bullet wounds and his eyes had been gouged out," one woman tells me, forcefully twisting a tissue in her hands as if it somehow could ease her agony and erase the chilling memory.
She didn't want her story told, too afraid that she would meet the same fate as the man she loved.
Her husband's body bore the "signs of torture." How many times has that phrase been used? It's such a common phrase it's as if what really happened gets glossed over: skin scraped off their bodies, fingernails ripped out, horrifying screams of pain before death.
And from another woman, further on, this:The image of the man she loved, tall and proud, is of a doctor who moved his family back to Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein because he believed his country needed him. He was a father who doted on their 6-year-old autistic son.
Also etched into her memory is the image of his charred body, melted together with nine others, a twisted pile of black, scorched flesh.
Yet Nahla's voice is calm as she speaks, only breaking at the very end of our conversation, when the pain, buried so deep, rises to the surface. She couldn't suppress her gut-wrenching dry sobs.
I don't know how many times I have heard stories like hers after nearly five years of war here, and yet I still get chills. I can't stop being in awe—nor can I stop looking at these women in amazement. Life in Iraq has forced people to confront horror that would leave many of us paralyzed.
This is the legacy of George W. Bush.
May he spend eternity in a burning Hell.
May god have mercy on the rest of us who sat idly by, frustrated in our attempts to stop him.
posted by Gotham 5:04 PM
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