Hurricane Victims Get a Taste of Life in Occupied Iraq

[AnarchistFunk]

NO GAS, NO FOOD, NO LODGING Hurricane Victims Get a Taste of Life in Occupied Iraq

By Ted Rall

2 hours, 25 minutes ago

SAN FRANCISCO--Taps run dry. Food rots when the power goes out. Toilets overflow with waste. Looters strip homes, businesses and public buildings. Armed bandits run wild in the streets. Fires rage out of control. Terrified policemen abandon their posts. Flies buzz over bloated corpses. People wave signs at passing helicopters. "Please help us," they read.

"Help is on the way," their head of state assures them. But the government sends soldiers instead of relief workers. The troops treat the victims, who are taxpayers and citizens, as if they were prisoners. Aiming weapons at the sick and dying, they herd thousands into sports arenas where they receive neither water, nor food, nor safe harbor. While indifferent soldiers man checkpoints to prevent the detainees from leaving, babies starve, the elderly die from lack of medicine and children are raped and murdered. They set up checkpoints to prevent anyone from leaving.

Reuters reports from inside a convention-center-cum-refugee camp:

"Sitting with her daughter and other relatives, Trolkyn Joseph, 37, said men had wandered the cavernous convention center in recent nights raping and murdering children. She said she found a dead 14-year old girl at 5 a.m. on Friday morning, four hours after the young girl went missing from her parents inside the convention center. 'She was raped for four hours until she was dead,' Joseph said through tears. 'Another child, a seven-year old boy was found raped and murdered in the kitchen freezer last night.'"

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http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/2578156.html



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These and even more devasting stories from Bush's Third World Amerika at:

CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWSWIRE - September 8th, 2005
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/2005/09/08/



MARC PARENT

CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS

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[Duke]

She said she found a dead 14-year old girl at 5 a.m. on Friday morning, four hours after the young girl went missing from her parents inside the convention center. 'She was raped for four hours until she was dead,' Joseph said through tears. 'Another child, a seven-year old boy was found raped and murdered in the kitchen freezer last night.'"

 

[Sebastian]

^
holy shit

 

[AnarchistFunk]

^
holy shit

big time

its just too bad the same thing is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan BECAUSE of the american government and not a natural disaster and nobody gives a fuck

 

[Flipmo]

Well said, Anarchist.

Rep points for you.

 

[S O F I]

It's worse for people in Iraq. With this hurricane, people from the affected states can't really say a certain group of people are guilty for it, since it's a natural thing. But, for the Iraqis, it's tiny bit different.

 

[AnarchistFunk]

one of the most disturbing facts is that people around kabul in afghanistan havent gotten electricity in 4 years and because of that are forced to dry out their feces and heat it during the cold desert nights for heat thus having air which is like 40% feces

 

[Duke]

It might be "cruel" to say, but this tragedy, no matter how sad it is, does open the eyes of the american public how good they actually have it. the situation in NO is daily business for some people in the world.

 

[AnarchistFunk]

It might be "cruel" to say, but this tragedy, no matter how sad it is, does open the eyes of the american public how good they actually have it. the situation in NO is daily business for some people in the world.

exactly :thumb:

what happened in NO is FUCKED UP no doubt about it, bodies floating, babies dying, families torn aport, villages demolished, its just that , that shit happens every fuckin day in the world

and whats even more fucked up is bush is askin for the same amount of money to aid NO that he used to destory the lives, culture , history, economy, health, community and possibly future of those in the middle east

 

[Big Flipp]

It amazes me what the media reports. I got here two days before the storm hit. I have been to all the hardest hit area's. I have worked in shelters, in the red cross head quaters and at distrubution sites and recentlyhave been working with mental health. Things are real bad but the relief isn't as bad as the media has made it out to be. I wish people could see the good that is going on here not just the bad the media shows you.

 

[Devious]

Well the media isn't interested in good news, they only seem to want to report the negative, because it sells more papers, gets higher ratings, etc. It's a sad state of affairs, but nothing new, it's been this way for a looooonnnnng time