Two Green
Zones
By Dahr Jamail
28 August, 2005
Dahrjamailiraq.com
As
the US-backed Iraqi puppet government flails about arguing over the
so-called constitution, Iraq remains in a state of complete anarchy.
There is no government control whatsoever, even inside the infamous
Green Zone where the puppets seem to have tangled their
strings.
Why the harsh tone
for the conflagrations of the so-called Iraqi government?
Because the price
paid for this unimaginably huge misadventure of the neo-conservative
driven Bush junta is being paid by real human beings who shed real blood
and cry real tears. Because well over 100,000 Iraqis and over 1,800
US soldiers would be alive today if it wasnt for the puppeteers
of Mr. Bush.
The coward sits
behind his guards in Crawford, Texas, too afraid to deal with the reality
of the grief he and his masters have caused to thousands of military
families who have lost loved ones in Iraq. Meanwhile, fires are raging
out of control not only in Iraq, but right here in the US.
I ask you,
Mr Bush, if you believe that this war is for Our Freedom
and Our Values why dont you send your daughters to
fight for freedom, wrote Fernando Suarez del Solar recently, who
lost his son in Iraq due to the lies of Mr. Bush.
He continued, Why
dont your closest associates send their children to defend these
values? Why are the children of immigrant families dying? Why are children
from working families who are the least privileged dying? Why Mr. Bush?
Why?
Of course Suarez
del Solar knows the answer. Its a rhetorical question asked of
a prep school punk who has never earned nor risked anything. A smirking
dimwit, who has never truly served his country, let alone fellow human
beings outside of his gangster corporate crony pals who inserted him
into the highest office
twice.
Today he chooses
to ignore the fire which is spreading across the US as he ignores the
debacle in Iraq, where the US military must leave, will leave, but are
unable to leave for fear of tarnishing what is left of the now sordid
reputation of the US.
I get emails daily
from sources throughout Iraq
both Iraqi and American. Even inside
US bases in the newest colony things dont seem to be going so
well, according to an American man who is working there as support.
I dont
know how much longer I can stand working for these idiots and their
brothers mothers sisters cousin, he wrote me
recently, They have acres of armored air conditioned trucks but
wont pay to fix the alternators, so the drivers must use the worst
of the equipment
no armor, no air conditioning
You know the
heat here, now add the heat of an engine to that cab and throw in a
few rockets, mortars, and IEDs [roadside bombs] and it makes for
a very bad day. Im trying to expose the corruption of the Third
Country National contractors by finding them a forum to send the truth.
Prisoners, slaves, concubines. My life may be a contradiction, but I
will not compromise with evil. The enemy is inside the wire.
Wars for empire
dont change
and Iraq is the perfect example. Invading armies
using slave labor (foreign in this case due to their deep distrust of
Iraqis), taking advantage of those who lack privilege, the poor, minorities,
to do the dirty work while the top 1% make more money than ever before.
And the pirates
behind the US policy-making in Iraq have chosen, perhaps to their chagrin
at this point, to disregard some of the latest history from a past occupation
of Iraq.
During the previous
British occupation of Iraq, the resistance began in Fallujah. As a response
the British shelled half of that city to the ground, much like the US
military did recently as part of their failed policy. (US soldiers are
now dying in and near Fallujah again.)
It was said that
if the British left Iraq civil war would ignite. Just as we are hearing
today, even though state-sponsored civil war is in full swing, thanks
to the occupiers.
The rule of the
British Empire over Iraq went on for three decades before the Brits
withdrew. Every year of that time found an uprising against the occupiers
and
now less than three years into the failed US occupation, lesser uprisings
occur daily.
Attacks on US forces
in Iraq are now back up over 70 per day
well cross the 2,000
dead mark before too much longer, and things are about to get much,
much worse. As Iraqis continue to say, Today is better than tomorrow.
The same goes for US troops there.
There is a reason
why a relatively recent Army survey found that 54% of all soldiers in
Iraq reported either low or very low morale.
There is also a
reason why, again according to the Army, that 30% of all soldiers returning
from Iraq develop mental health problems 3-4 months after their return.
And there is a reason
why soldiers like Nicolas Prubyla come home and join organizations like
Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Up until five
days ago, I had large amounts of blood in my stool, he told me
recently, Ive felt tired all the time, I have had loss of
hair
loss of the feeling in my right arm
Im battling
this stuff.
What he is battling
is exposure to uranium munitions in Iraq. He is battling radiation sickness
as the result of the most recent nuclear war waged by the United States
of America. There is a reason why over 11,000 veterans from the 91
Gulf War are dead today, and over 250,000 others are on medical disability.
That reason (hundreds and hundreds of tons of uranium munitions dropped
on Iraq) is the same thing Prubyla is battling today.
As the years
go on this is going to effect a hell of a lot more people than we think
radioactive
dust and the clouds of smoke and dust from firing the DU [depleted uranium]
is getting to us now, he said, And I know Im not the
only person in my unit-my boss got diagnosed with cancer, one of my
other buddies who is 23 years-old is getting rashes
.every time
I do more research on DU-Im seeing that I have all the side effects.
Prubyla has realized
what more and more veterans understand
that the powers that be
in our military plutocracy (also known as the US government) could care
less for their well being. One of the shadow members of the current
plutocracy who is also an exalted neo-conservative, Henry Kissinger,
has referred to military men as dumb, stupid animals to be used
as pawns for foreign policy.
People like Prubyla
get this; they have had enough, and are now doing something about it.
Meanwhile in the
Crawford Green Zone, Mr. Bush chooses to ignore the resistance
movement that is standing outside his fence. But that is alright, because
the hundreds of people there now protesting represent tens (if not hundreds)
of millions across the country who, like the Iraqi resistance, are not
going to go away.