The embedded journalists from the USA and UK are doing a great disservice to their own people by consciously hiding the untold suffering of the people of Iraq in the face of American occupation. The impact of the war and the insurgency have been devastating on women and children. It is really sickening to see fat well fed Iraqi men, Quislings all of them, appear on Western TV and mouth innanities about the great job that is being done by the coalition. The pictures from Basra put paid to such extravagance. The Western media used to foment identity politics in Iraq between Sunnis and Shiaas, were quite unpreparted to see Shiaas out on the streets dancing over the burnt out sheell of the RAF chopper. The British troops retaliated with excessive force and killed 15 children and women. The Western media admits only 5 killed in the ensuing carnage.
The truth from Iraq is bitter and it is the truth of Auchwitz, Dachau and Triblinka. A holocaust is unfolding in Iraq and it is the women and children who face the brunt of it. Every night after sundown the US and their Iraqi collaborators invade the homes of people, especially Sunni homes, and in the pretext of searching for arms ransack and humiliate the people living there. Any Sunni male between 15 to 50 is carted away and several times their dead bidies turn up in the fieds around Bagdad. An unwriteen policy of ethnic cleansing in underway and the US administration is complicit in several acts of gfroos human rights violations. The US Media engaged in innanities over Rumsfeldt and the CIA has neither the time nor inclination to highlight the real situation in Iraq. The safety of the Green Zone does not permit the luxury of seeking out the truth.
The void is noaw filled by film makers who with home video, cell phones, handy cams,webcams and the like are documenting the atrocities that the USA and UK are inflicting on innocent Iraqis. Most of these film makers hide their identity as they fear both the Americans and the Insurgents who are alternatively support the US coalition or operate on their own. Children from the age of 6 suffer the psychological trauma of seeing their parents killed in front of their eyes. Symptoms of body tremors are becoming common among choldren. It is of course well known that involuntary body tremor is a sure sign of nervous breakdown. Women who have lost their husbands are being forced into prostitution in order to feed their children left fatherl;ess in a cruel and violent Iraq.
Travel from one city to another is becoming difficult because the Americans have put up road blocks everywhere. The only escape route is the desert and even their when groups are found crossing the desert they are strafed by US military helicopters. The people of Iraq have been turned into targets fror US and UK moilitary machine. One of the film makers has done a short and chilling story of a 8 year onld girl who was picked up by the American marines in the desetrs outside Baghdad. Her father was killed by the marines and the little girl herself was held for nearly 6 months by the marines until her Grandfather was able to track her down and rescue her. All the while the child was forced to view photographs of corpses and identify them. Such abuse of choldren is becoming rampant in Iraq today and are war crimes like any other.
The fact is undr Saddam Hussein women dad made great progress towars economic and social equality. The US occupation of Iraq is forcing women back into the hijab and the fact is the Americans are in alliance with Shiaa clerics who are forcing such reggressive measures.Link
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