Comments on: I’ll Tell You How You’d Feel! You’d Feel Like an Iraqi! http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=207 Helping to Bring the Truth to the People Sun, 19 May 2013 14:01:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Annamarie http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=207&cpage=1#comment-297 Annamarie Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:35:50 +0000 http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=207#comment-297 Right on, Eva! Tell it like it is! Peace, Annamarie Right on, Eva! Tell it like it is!

Peace, Annamarie

]]> By: Eva http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=207&cpage=1#comment-296 Eva Sun, 27 Nov 2005 03:59:17 +0000 http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=207#comment-296 Jesse, I could not agree with you more!! I used to ask people who supported the war, how would they feel if another country decided that they wanted to remove Bush and change our country as to how they saw fit. I used to ask them to imagine having a foreign army tanks driving up and down our streets, with their troops watching our every move - ready to shoot us at any given second if they suspected us of something. Mind you, all of this is supposedly done in the name of "freedom". Do you call this freedom - I don't!!! Imagine how we would act, maybe we would form little pockets of groups to try and fight off this foreign army. It sickens me that the people who support this invasion cannot see this. While this adminstration should be locked up and tortured the way our troops tortured prisoners in Abu Grahib, supporters of the war should be forced to live in Iraq as an Iraqi and see first hand what this country has created. Eva Jesse,
I could not agree with you more!!
I used to ask people who supported the war, how would they feel if another country decided that they wanted to remove Bush and change our country as to how they saw fit. I used to ask them to imagine having a foreign army tanks driving up and down our streets, with their troops watching our every move - ready to shoot us at any given second if they suspected us of something. Mind you, all of this is supposedly done in the name of “freedom”. Do you call this freedom - I don’t!!! Imagine how we would act, maybe we would form little pockets of groups to try and fight off this foreign army.
It sickens me that the people who support this invasion cannot see this. While this adminstration should be locked up and tortured the way our troops tortured prisoners in Abu Grahib, supporters of the war should be forced to live in Iraq as an Iraqi and see first hand what this country has created.

Eva

]]> By: Annamarie http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=207&cpage=1#comment-295 Annamarie Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:03:12 +0000 http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=207#comment-295 Just a little P.S.: In my closing 'best wishes', I forgot to mention rbank, who is also a 'voice of reason'. Regards and best wishes to you too, rbank! Peace, Annamarie :) Just a little P.S.:

In my closing ‘best wishes’, I forgot to mention rbank, who is also a ‘voice of reason’. Regards and best wishes to you too, rbank!

Peace, Annamarie :)

]]> By: Annamarie http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=207&cpage=1#comment-294 Annamarie Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:50:36 +0000 http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=207#comment-294 Very well said, Jesse and ian! Yes, indeed Americans and their allies in the war on Iraq should put themselves into the shoes of the Iraqis. Perhaps then they wouldn't be so quick to comdemn them for their anger at what has been done to them. As I've said before -- and Jesse put it so well too in a previous -- the Iraqis are far worse off now than they ever were under Saddam. For anyone who doubts or disbelieves this, please go the website of my good friend Dahr Jamail, who is an <em>independent, unembedded American journalist</em>. Dahr was fed up with the media lies and lack of coverage of the war, so he went there to see for himself. He goes out amongst the people, asks real questions, visits hospitals and homes, travels the cities and countryside, and his stories will make your hair stand on end, and your blood boil at the crimes against humanity committed by the invaders. You will see photos of the effects of white phosphorous on infants; you will see unimaginable horrors inflicted upon an innocent populace. That this can happen in the 21st century, under the orders of America's leadership, boggles the rational mind! Those who are still proponents of this terrible, illegal, immoral war should be 'tarred-and-feathered' at the very least, although a more appropriate treatment would be to send them to Iraq to see for themselves, and NOT in the relative safety of the Green Zone, but out amongst the people. Guaranteed these chickenhawks would dance to a different tune! It is easy to be an arm-chair warrior, sitting in the warm confines of one's home, with a beer-filled belly, watching FOX News and Wrestlemania. It is quite another to see firsthand the agony, death, destruction foisted upon innocents by your leader, with your complicity, since you've elected him not once, but TWICE. This is how the world is judging America <strong>and Americans</strong> now. History will be a much harsher judge, and will place this huge blot on the collective American consciousness. Future generations will hang their heads in shame at the atrocities committed by their tyrant leaders today. <blockquote>"Anyone with knowledge of illegal activity and an opportunity to do something is a potential criminal under international law, unless the person takes affirmative measures to prevent the commission of the crimes." - Declaration of War Crimes Tribunals following World War ll </blockquote> <a href="http://dahrjamailiraq.com" rel="nofollow">Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches website</a> To you, Jesse, and Ian, I wish the best, and thank you for your 'voices of reason'. Take care, Peace, Annamarie :-) Very well said, Jesse and ian! Yes, indeed Americans and their allies in the war on Iraq should put themselves into the shoes of the Iraqis. Perhaps then they wouldn’t be so quick to comdemn them for their anger at what has been done to them. As I’ve said before — and Jesse put it so well too in a previous — the Iraqis are far worse off now than they ever were under Saddam. For anyone who doubts or disbelieves this, please go the website of my good friend Dahr Jamail, who is an independent, unembedded American journalist. Dahr was fed up with the media lies and lack of coverage of the war, so he went there to see for himself. He goes out amongst the people, asks real questions, visits hospitals and homes, travels the cities and countryside, and his stories will make your hair stand on end, and your blood boil at the crimes against humanity committed by the invaders. You will see photos of the effects of white phosphorous on infants; you will see unimaginable horrors inflicted upon an innocent populace. That this can happen in the 21st century, under the orders of America’s leadership, boggles the rational mind!

Those who are still proponents of this terrible, illegal, immoral war should be ‘tarred-and-feathered’ at the very least, although a more appropriate treatment would be to send them to Iraq to see for themselves, and NOT in the relative safety of the Green Zone, but out amongst the people. Guaranteed these chickenhawks would dance to a different tune! It is easy to be an arm-chair warrior, sitting in the warm confines of one’s home, with a beer-filled belly, watching FOX News and Wrestlemania. It is quite another to see firsthand the agony, death, destruction foisted upon innocents by your leader, with your complicity, since you’ve elected him not once, but TWICE. This is how the world is judging America and Americans now. History will be a much harsher judge, and will place this huge blot on the collective American consciousness. Future generations will hang their heads in shame at the atrocities committed by their tyrant leaders today.

“Anyone with knowledge of illegal activity and an opportunity to do something is a potential criminal under international law, unless the person takes affirmative measures to prevent the commission of the crimes.” - Declaration of War Crimes Tribunals following World War ll

Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches website

To you, Jesse, and Ian, I wish the best, and thank you for your ‘voices of reason’.

Take care,
Peace,
Annamarie :-)

]]> By: ian http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=207&cpage=1#comment-293 ian Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:50:55 +0000 http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=207#comment-293 I often think of the term the Nazi's used for the Jews, Untermenchen, basically it means a lower life form or under being, I think we tend to find our governments reduce its current enemy to a lesser being, eg ragheads. It helps the media spin to the masses, they never miss a chance to portray Iraqi's as extremist fanatics who are radical Islamic fundamentalists. The're people like you and me, with kids, neighbours, and they did have schools, water, medical treatment, and a life, before sanctions and invasion by us. Saddam was an arse, but apparently he won the Iraqi election via written in candidate selction. I know that the people who read it are mostly good decent people who already know the truth. It's frustrating. I often think of the term the Nazi’s used for the Jews, Untermenchen, basically it means a lower life form or under being, I think we tend to find our governments reduce its current enemy to a lesser being, eg ragheads. It helps the media spin to the masses, they never miss a chance to portray Iraqi’s as extremist fanatics who are radical Islamic fundamentalists.
The’re people like you and me, with kids, neighbours, and they did have schools, water, medical treatment, and a life, before sanctions and invasion by us.
Saddam was an arse, but apparently he won the Iraqi election via written in candidate selction.
I know that the people who read it are mostly good decent people who already know the truth. It’s frustrating.

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