liberation

[pynchonoid]

[...] "Destruction was everywhere. I saw people lying
dead in the streets, wounded were bleeding and there
was no one to come and help them. Even the civilians
who stayed in Fallujah were too afraid to go out," he
said.

"There was no medicine, water, no electricity nor food
for days."

By Tuesday afternoon, as U.S. forces and Iraqi rebels
engaged in fierce clashes in the heart of his
neighborhood, Hussein snapped.

"U.S. soldiers began to open fire on the houses, so I
decided that it was very dangerous to stay in my
house," he said.

Hussein said he panicked, seizing on a plan to escape
across the Euphrates River, which flows on the western
side of the city

"I wasn't really thinking," he said. "Suddenly, I just
had to get out. I didn't think there was any other
choice."

In the rush, Hussein left behind his camera lens and a
satellite telephone for transmitting his images. His
lens, marked with the distinctive AP logo, was
discovered two days later by U.S. Marines next to a
dead man's body in a house in Jolan.

AP colleagues in the Baghdad bureau, who by then had
not heard from Hussein in 48 hours, became even more
worried.

Hussein moved from house to house dodging gunfire and
reached the river.

"I decided to swim … but I changed my mind after
seeing U.S. helicopters firing on and killing people
who tried to cross the river."

[...] He watched horrified as a family of five was
shot dead as they tried to cross. Then, he "helped
bury a man by the river bank, with my own hands."
[...] 
<http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=251539>

The Guardian had a story today about wounded civilians
in the main Fallujah hospital being treated with
"nothing but bandages." 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1350926,00.html>

Bush said yesterday we are making great progress in
the war. 

"Go Bush! USA! USA!"

File under:  we had to destroy the village in order to
save it

The best part of the The Simpsons tonight was the
missile division of the company - Ovenfresh? - that
was sponsoring the bake-off, one of several divisions
mentioned, I think (I didn't tape the show) in the
Tube news story about it.  But I didn't notice Pynchon
mentioned in the writing credits, even though that
news story somebody posted the other day said Pynchon
helped write the jokes. 

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