We are still fumbling in the dark

[Mutualcode at aol.com]

What medals do they issue for this type activity?

"They lay in lines, the car salesman who'd just lost his eye 
but whose feet were still dribbling blood, the motorcyclist 
who was shot by American troops near the Rashid Hotel, 
the 50-year-old female civil servant, her long dark hair spread 
over the towel she was lying on, her face, breasts, thighs, 
arms and feet pock-marked with shrapnel from an American 
cluster bomb. For the civilians of Baghdad, this is the real, 
immoral face of war, the direct result of America's clever little 
"probing missions" into Baghdad.

It looks very neat on television, the American marines on the 
banks of the Tigris, the oh-so-funny visit to the presidential 
palace, the videotape of Saddam Hussein's golden loo. But 
the innocent are bleeding and screaming with pain to bring 
us our exciting television pictures and to provide Messrs Bush 
and Blair with their boastful talk of victory...."

    continues at:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=395117

respectfully
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