"Bush's God" Damned Iraq - Five Years of American Shame

God told George W. Bush to go and kill all of those people. Billy Graham's Lord bent down and apologized in W 's ear for putting all of those rich deposits of oil under the Iraqi desert. "Flush 'em out, go get 'em, and when you get 'em - torture right and proper. Destroy their homes, make sure they have no medicine, food or gas, leave no electricity, no clean water, and flood the streets with sewage. George W's personal God preached on, "Shock and Awe 'em, George, and you'll prove ta yer daddy, and the whole damn world that yer a man!

Terrorize 'em every day and hey, use those weapons of mass destruction I gave ya - they're real killers! Ya can't beat white phosphorus and that new napalm, MK77, it sticks to the skin better so it burns longer, yeah! And them kiddies jest love those liddle ole cluster bomblettes. Hell, they look jest like liddle toys! Then there's depleted uranium - my well-rounded wonder weapon. It penetrates, it burns, and it is guaranteed to pollute the land, the water, and the people. They'll be sick fer generations!

Insurgents fought with George Washington and won the Revolutionary War here in America, but we got to change the meaning of the word a bit. Iraqi patriots who are defending their country from yer army, well, they're the bad guys. Every time they fight back - even a little, put it on the news how you have suppressed the insurgency fer freedom - no matter what ya do... say its fer freedom!

Now, we got ta give them troops a hate name for them insurgents. Let's see we already used "gooks" for the slant eyes in the Nam... How's about "hajjis"? It sounds kinda Abi Baba don't it? Oh and b'fore I forget, here's a little hate ditty to wash the brains of yer troops with. Help's 'em concentrate on the killin'...

Bomb the village
Kill the people
Throw some napalm in the square
Do it on a Sunday morning
Kill them on their way to prayer
Ring the bell inside the schoolhouse
Watch the kiddies gather round
Lock and load with your 240
Mow them little motherf***rs down
. . . etc.

God's little genocide is workin' in Gaza for the Israelis, idn't it George? Those Palestinians are jest about done fer - it'll work in Iraq, too! Jest keep on bulleavin' and you'll see. One day most all Iraqi's will be dead or barely hangin' on in refugee camps. The diehards who stay in Iraq won't be able to fight because if we don't take their lives we will take their limbs. Some'll be too sick from radiation poisonin' to work, but I promise you, there will be enough able-bodied hajjis remaining ta labor in the American Occupation's Oil Fields, and fer real cheap, too!

An' never-you-mind all those anti-war protesters. Its not lyin' if I told ya ta say it. The Iraqis had nothin' to do with 9/11 but that don't make a bit a difference. Kill 'em anyway! And hey, if they try to defend themselves act as if yer the victim not them - works great for the Israelis!

Now Lucifer, he's over there in Dick Cheney's head. They're doin' a heckuva job with all them contractors, missin' tax dollars 'n all. Hosanna Halliburton! Hey, we figure b'twix the two of us we got this miserable war oil thing nailed - jest like my son.

I see them lefties have been complainin' 'bout yer natural born killer instincts. Don't you fret 'bout that - you got me and I am the best excuse you'll ever have for killin' all those folks. Don't you worry about a thing, George, I'm a livin' God. I walk with you, I talk with you, an' I'm always with you, right here inside yer head. 'N I wanna tell ya, I haven't enjoyed myself so much since I spent all that time in Hitler's head.

Hey, listen up George W. I'm good ta go so its 'bout time ta do a job on Iran - ya know the drill so... Bring It On! ...'N don't ferget ta prey.
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.................Five years of War - Five years of American Shame.............
935 LIES - OVER ONE MILLION DEAD - A TWO TRILLION DOLLAR WAR

If they have another war don't show up!
............Kitchen Window Woman........

* the "ditty" above is currently being used during the "training" (indoctrination)of our soldiers

HELP - Iraq's Children are Suffering

An activist friend, who is also a mother and a grandmother, recently e-mailed to inform me of UNICEF's urgent alert - the immediate need of $37 million dollars to treat sick and wounded Iraqi children. The plight of Iraq's children has been a constant concern for anti-war humanitarian activists since the war began five years ago. Despite "The Surge" being touted as a resounding success by the Bush Administration, the appalling circumstances faced daily by Iraqi children have deteriorated drastically. An entire generation of children is endangered.

America's March 19, 2003 "Shock and Awe" attack on Iraq began a never ending nightmare of terror, suffering, pain, and death for Iraqi children.

Thousands of children have died in the unnecessary, illegal war that was forced upon their country. Thousands more have been orphaned. Tens of thousands have been blinded, lost limbs, taken bullets and shrapnel, been burned, brain injured, and psychologically and emotionally traumatized. Sadly, many wounded and sick children are being abandoned by parents, who as a consequence of the war, can no longer care for them. Currently within Iraq 1.6 million homeless children need medical treatment and food.

There are the kids who are wasting away from what the Iraqis call "the white death" - Leukemia. During the First Gulf War, American and British forces pounded Iraq with 975 bombs and missiles that were coated with depleted uranium. Unfortunately, America and Britain do not clean up after themselves. The radioactive shell casings, bullets, and bomb fragments littered all over Iraq will remain active for 4.5 billion years. Incidents of leukemia in Iraq have increased over 600% since the 1990's.


Billions of dollars worth of additional radioactive bombs, missiles, and rounds have pummeled Iraq since the inception of George W. Bush's crusade to "save" the Iraqi people. Is it any wonder Iraq has developed into the location with the highest most concentrated rate of Leukemia in the world? Even worse, the fact that there are very few doctors left in Iraq to care for sick and wounded children is compounded by a severe lack of basic medical supplies, equipment, and necessaary medicines.

But that is not all. The destruction of Iraq's infrastructure by American and British forces, plus Sunni and Shi'a religious combatants alike, has left 60% of the Iraqi people without safe drinking water and seas of raw sewage in the streets. Dehydration caused by diarrhea is stalking and killing Iraq's children and they face a renewed outbreak of Cholera during the summer months of 2008.


Malnutrition is a constant for these poor, war-weary innocent victims and they can't even go to school to forget their misery. Many schools have been closed or destroyed entirely. Often the journey to reach a school is far too dangerous for children to undertake. And now, in the southern province of Qadissiyah, 275 children have been stricken with leishmanaisis, a disfiguring skin idsease that can also lead to death if it attacks internal organs.

Although billions of taxpayer dollars were designated for the repair of Iraq's infrastructure and the rebuilding of it's institutions, most has been pocketed by American contractors or skillfully diverted to finance the continuing construction of 14 enduring / permanent US military bases instead.

It is apparent that the American government has no intention of taking responsibility to relieve the suffering they have visited on the youngest victims of the on-going war and occupation. Their childhoods have been stolen. How much more can Iraqi children withstand? An entire generation of children is endangered.

It is up to us to help. Please send something if you can or help by promoting public awareness about the plight of Iraq's children. If you prefer a more established charity donate to UNICEF. I chose to contribute to a smaller organization. I mailed a modest check to Iraq Health Now whose Project Coordinator, Kathy Murphy, has managed to ship containers with medical supplies, little wheel chairs, walkers, and crutches to the hospitals in Basra. Every little bit will help - money is needed for postage as well as supplies, so even a coupla bucks will be put to use.

Note: We save pennies, pocket change, and recycle cans and bottles. These funds accumulate and are put to use for political or charitable contributions. Our unimpressive but useful financial stash has once again enabled us to help others - for that I am thankful.

If they gave a war and nobody came,
Iraq's children would be living normal lives.
...........Kitchen Window Woman..........

Hillary Doesn't Get It - WAR IS A WOMEN'S ISSUE

WAR IS A WOMEN'S ISSUE. War is the number one women's issue world wide. Women and children comprise 80% of the collateral damage that results from the wars that are being waged daily all over the world. Women and their children are victims of bombs, bullets, rape and other forms of sexual violence, psychological trauma, starvation, displacement, and the damaging effects of DU-depleted uranium, the radioactive poison which is used extensively by the United States to coat its bullets, missiles and bombs.

WAR IS A WOMEN'S ISSUE. There are very few women in the world who do not suffer from the cycle of endless wars. Directly or indirectly, the fallout of armed conflict impacts or alters the lives women in every country. War is akin to the domestic violence that destroys families from the inside out. It destroys from the outside in. Just as women have worked feverishly to break the cycle of domestic violence, they must now work with equal determination to break the cycle of war.

WAR IS THE WOMAN'S ISSUE THAT HILLARY CLINTON DOESN'T GET. The woman who wants to be America's first female president has consistently supported the use of force and the continued funding, development, and use of some of the most cruel and destructive conventional weapons used in modern warfare. DU, cluster bombs, and land mines have been in the Clinton arsenal ever Bill was president, and remain there to this day, despite Hillary's sudden conversion to an "end-the-war now" candidate.

Since WAR IS A WOMEN'S ISSUE, let's look at Hillary Clinton's history as a pro-war HAWK. Most famously, back in March of 1999 when Senator Clinton was our nation's First Lady, she pressured her husband, the president, to bomb Yugoslavia. Military interventions soon became a habit for the co-presidential couple. Along with Yugoslavia, the Clintons involved US forces in the affairs of Afghanistan, Columbia, Haiti, Iraq, Somalia, the Sudan, and Iraq.


Weapons laced with Depleted Uranium were used in Kosovo and are still in use in Afghanistan and Iraq leaving all three countries contaminated with radioactive poison. Military service members and civilians have been in constant contact with the highly toxic dust. Despite an epidemic of cancers and severe birth defects in newborns, the American and British militaries continue to use DU in their various wars. Depleted Uranium has a half life of 4.5 billion years which makes it a forever killer and an invisible form of genocide.


Senator Clinton was finally forced by sick veterans to call for medical tests for our soldiers who have been exposed to DU (many vets are still waiting for testing) however, the Senator has done nothing to STOP the use of DEPLETED URANIUM, America's WMD of choice.


Senator Clinton also voted against a ban on cluster bombs and munitions. Think of a cluster bomb as a pregnant shell that delivers a litter of tiny grenades over a large area. Cluster bomblets scatter everywhere - gardens, roof tops, school yards, farm fields, markets, and under cars. It doesn't matter if the duds don't explode right away. They often remain hidden for years before being detonated by an unsuspecting civilian. Cluster explosives are very effective weapons of terror when used against civilian populations. Women and children are the primary victims. Senator Barack Obama gets it - WAR IS A WOMEN'S ISSUE. He voted in favor of the ban.

Hillary voted with the pack on October 11th, 2002 not once, but twice. First she voted against the "Multilateral Use of Force Authorization" put forth by Michigan's Democratic Senator, Carl Levin, and then she voted with the neoconservatives for the Iraq War Resolution which authorized "the decider" to start an illegal war. Hillary Clinton voted as an ambitious politician, not as woman who respects, and values the lives of others. "If I knew than what I know now" is one hell of an unacceptable excuse in the face of the massive suffering that has been caused by the illegal war against Iraq. Lately, she's been re-writing history by twisting the truth about the Iraq War Amendment.

WAR IS A WOMAN'S ISSUE but the corporateers who make up America's Military Industrial Security Complex view WAR AS A MONEY ISSUE, and so does Hillary Clinton. Is it any wonder that the weapons industry has turned away from Republican candidates to offer large sums of money to Democratic pro-war honey, Hillary? Sadly, she took blood money contributions from Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrup-Grumman, General Dynamics, and Raytheon while the taxpayers continue to pay $720 million dollars a day to poison a country and kill people.

WAR IS A WOMAN'S ISSUE. Echoing George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton threatened, "Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price." She, like the current "war president", is a deliverer of ultimatums - negotiations are off the table She likes nukes, too! War brings suffering and death. Hillary just doesn't get it! War is the Anti-life.


WAR IS A WOMEN'S ISSUE because in large numbers we are the ones whose hearts break, whose family members are killed or maimed, whose homes and fields are destroyed, and whose lives are lost all due to the violent actions of others. Women bring life into the world. We are the keepers of the hearth. We love. We are nurturers. We grow children. We teach our children to respect one another, to problem solve, and to negotiate. We do not teach them to steal. We do not teach them to kill. We do not invent ways to kill other people.

Women need change. Women want change. Many women are working to make that change happen by ending militarism and the cycle of war that goes with it. It is up to us to select leaders who take into account the lives and interests of women everywhere. BARACK OBAMA GETS IT! He has worked toward change. He voted against the war that has preemptively ended over one million lives. I will cast my vote for Obama.

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*Note - I haven't slept well since George W. Bush was appointed president. I have dreaded every day during his two terms for each dawn brought more destruction and less freedom. I will not rest with Hillary in the White house. I do not trust her. She will go to war.

The time to "tear up"( if that is a ploy one uses) is before the bombs are dropped.
.......Hell No Hillary !........
...Kitchen Window Woman...