U.S. Slaughter Fills Iraqi Cemeteries

[nolabels]

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=165367&rel_no=1
U.S. Slaughter Fills Iraqi Cemeteries
The first Korean reporter into Fallujah tells of the smell of death wafting from every direction

One year has passed since President Bush announced the end of hostilities in the Iraq war. However, conditions there remain unpredictable and are threatening to deteriorate. Having gained access to Fallujah independently, OhmyNews citizen reporter Gang Eun Ji, of Minjok21, is on the scene to send daily reports. On May 1, Gang was the first Korean reporter to gain access to Fallujah. -The editor.


Conditions in Fallujah, Iraq, are changing rapidly.
©2004 Gang E.J.


What is going on in Fallujah, Iraq?

Reporters from around world wait in Baghdad for the road to open at the end of extensive military operations by U.S. military in Fallujah.

Fallujah is about 40 minutes from Baghdad. Though a short distance, we are unable to get to Fallujah to report on conditions there.

As is often the case, we spent days at a U.S. blockade, waiting to gain access to the town as volleys of artillery shells thundered around them.

From April 29 I made numerous attempts to gain access to Fallujah, but all failed.

Gaining access to Fallujah

May 1st was the one-year anniversary of President Bush's announcement of the end of hostilities in Iraq. On that day, I was finally given access to Fallujah.
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[Liberal Veteran]

1. It's okay as long we don't put them into mass graves...

Then it would be "bad".

[gottaB]

2. The smell of death from all directions

That description reminded me of another account,
Eyewitness: Falluja's grief and defiance.

Thanks for posting that. We need to know what really happened there.

[Judi Lynn]

3. I couldn't finish reading it all at once........

So, so sad. Tragedy beyond description. _Bush needs to go.
I can't imagine a Democrat, other than the occasional eccentric mock-Democrat like Zell Miller, EVER putting human beings through such grief and suffering.

[mmm]

4. This article has the feel of authenticity to it

I guess it is as bad as we thought.
Very sad.

[Barrett808]

7. Corroborated by Dahr Jamail

"We will fight them again!"
by Dahr Jamail | Posted May 07, 2004 at 08:58 PM Baghdad time
http://blog.newstandardnews.net/iraqdispatches/archives/000343.html#more

Rows and rows of fresh graves fill the football stadium in Falluja. Many of them are smaller than others. My translator Nermim reads the gravestones to me: “This one is a little girl.” We take another step. “And this one is her sister. Next to them is their mother.”

And four days ago by musician Michael Franti:
http://www.michaelfranti.com/board.cfm?action=Board&function=read_blog&Blog_ID=739&Board_ID=1

we saw bunkers and as we got closer to baghdad we passed over the city of fallujah. It is a really small city and even from the air i could see whole neighborhoods that had been flattened by bombing.

[qwertyMike]

17. This image is now my dektop background

The image of mass graves created by Bush

[shadu]

23. you are a better man than me

[Just Me]

15. Me, too, JudiLyn.

I really can't even comment on it because,...it's,...it's hard to even begin to find the words. It's tragic, tragic.

:cry:

[LibertyorDeath]

5. Beyond words

[struggle4progress]

6. kick

:kick:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. Everyone should read this...including those DU readers who believe....

...the Iraqi death rate is below 100,000.

[nolabels]

9. Iraq is a living HELL

Don't ask me to support troops (economically conscripted mercenaries) They are no more protecting the US than the man in the Moon. I have particular disdain for these worthless generals who value their career over their duty and Honor of their country.

What is going on is criminal, no two ways about it. It will only end when a force larger than it puts an end to it, who, how or what might be like is anybodies guess as far as I can see. Must keep track of it though.


U.S. soldier in Iraq. Photo from Islam Online

Sovereignty at Gunpoint: The Reality of the June 30 Hand-Over

The much-hyped "transfer of power" to a new Iraqi government is imminent. But, as usual, mainstream media outlets in the U.S. are missing the bigger picture. What kind of power will this new government have over the country's military, its laws, and its economy? Are we talking about real sovereignty or simply a new face for the occupation, which will continue to be run by the United States from what is going to be the largest U.S. Embassy in the world? Is the hand-over a positive step toward democracy in Iraq or merely a positive campaign move by the Bush administration, which is hoping to win re-election in November?

While OW will continue to select and place articles from the mainstream media under the topic of "Democracy," the following materials are more closely aligned to what OW perceives as the reality of the June 30 hand-over:
(snip)
http://www.occupationwatch.org/index.php

[bobthedrummer]

10. Kick

:dem::kick:

[nolabels]

11. Hey there bobthedrummer, your on !

I didn't realize it till just a day or two ago, but it looks they are trying to push the whole Iraq debacle off any page like they did back in Ronny's day. His departure must of reminded them of the good ole days when they could determine what the news was regardless of what any body else thought



http://www.thesayers.org/pics.htm

[saigon68]

12. Kick

[nolabels]

13. Occupation tanks poised to enter Falluja (blood for oil)

http://www.antiwar.com/
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E8E5D69B-FF87-4E8C-9CF8-637197702743.htm
Occupation tanks poised to enter Falluja

Wednesday 09 June 2004, 14:54 Makka Time, 11:54 GMT

US troops have not patrolled Falluja since 10 May

US tanks have taken up positions around Falluja and appear to be preparing to enter the Iraqi city.
(snip)
A Sunni Muslim bastion, Falluja was rocked to its foundations in April by some of the heaviest fighting in Iraq since the US-led invasion began last year.

The last US troop patrol in the city was on 10 May, shortly after they struck an agreement with resistance fighters to end a weeks-long siege and allow Iraqi police and ex-army figures to maintain security.

The tank patrol follows an attack overnight on an Iraqi general charged with imposing security in Falluja.
Pipeline targeted
(snip)
Earlier, saboteurs ruptured an oil pipeline linking the Kirkuk oil fields with Iraq's largest fuel refinery at Baiji, 200km north of Baghdad.

Iraqi officials confirmed that the night attack on Wednesday forced a 400-megawatt power station near the refinery to shut down.


The Kirkuk pipeline attack caused
a power station to be shut down
(snip)

http://www.thestreet.com/_tsclsii/markets/marketfeatures/10165445.html
Oil Prices Churn Higher

By TSC Staff
6/10/2004 12:26 PM EDT

Updated from 7:45 a.m.

Oil prices moved back above $38 a barrel Thursday, following a weeklong slump in which the benchmark U.S. crude fell 12% from its record high of $42.45 a barrel.

Crude was up 91 cents, or 2.4%, to $38.45 a barrel, while gasoline prices added 1.6 cents, or 1.3%, to $1.183 a gallon.

A U.S. government report Wednesday showing a modest increase in energy supplies briefly pushed crude below $37 a barrel to a six-week low, and prices have been gaining ever since.

The market's May rally crumbed last week as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries moved to cool price speculation about short supply by saying it would boost its official production ceiling by up to 2.5 million barrels a day this summer, an 11% increase over its June ceiling of 23.5 million barrels a day.
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[bobbieinok]

14. for official US spin see Robt Kaplan 5 Days in Fallujah in Atlantic

He was on NPR talk of the nation earlier this week.

...was embedded reporter

...troops 'very careful to avoid civilian casualities'

etc

[seemslikeadream]

16. BUSH'S PLAN FOR PEACE IS THE PEACE OF THE COMMON GRAVE

EVERY DEATH CREATES NEW ENEMIES
MORE TERRORISTS
MORE DANGER
MORE DEATH
AND REMEMBER...

HE IS JUST GETTING STARTED...

BUSH'S PLAN FOR PEACE
IS THE PEACE OF THE COMMON GRAVE

http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html


sie ahnten nichts von mir
von meiner wilden gier
doch als du kamst zu mir
da wurde ich ein tier
kein gedanke an danach
als ich dir die knochen brach

tot tot tot ich mache dich tot
tot tot tot von blut alles rot

tot

fuer mein naechstes leben
schoepfe ich neue kraft
ich bin dem toeten ergeben
in der einzelhaft

tot tot tot ich mache dich tot
tot tot tot von blut alles rot
tot tot tot ich mache dich tot
tot tot tot von blut alles rot

ein dahinsichen
von gottes hand
ich kann dich riechen
und das denken verschwand

tot tot tot tot tot tot tot ich mache dich tot
tot tot tot von blut alles rot tot tot tot tot

ich mache dich tot ich mache dich tot
ich mache dich tot ich mache dich tot

sag mir was du willst
dass du meine sehnsucht stillst
ich mache dich tot fuer immerdar
von blut alles rot auf gottes altar

tot tot tot ich mache dich tot
tot tot tot von blut alles rot

ich mache dich tot fuer immerdar
ich mache dich tot glaub mir es ist wahr
ich mache dich tot fuer immerdar
ich mache dich tot auf gottes altar


they suspected nothing of me
of my wild greed
yet as you became me
I became an animal
no thought after that
as I broke your bones

dead dead dead I make you dead
dead dead dead of blood of all red

dead

[number6]

18. O.I.L

Operation
Iraqi
Liberation

[struggle4progress]

19. kick

:kick:

[Aidoneus]

20. and Kimmet says that US goals in al-Fallujah hadn't been achieved!

Who is he kidding? This was their goal. It just didn't have the effect that they had desired.

[nolabels]

21. I just thought I would give this story a little update

Sounds like the freepers feel or have a need to take on the rest of the world :nopity:

http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=171857&rel_no=1&back_url=

Fallujah Story Uncovers Truth, Debate
Readers weigh in with comments from both sides of the Iraq war

A year on from President Bush's announcement of the end of hostilities in the Iraq war OhmyNews citizen reporter Gang Eun Ji gained access to Fallujah. She sent back a detailed eyewitness account that received a lot of attention from our English-speaking readers.

Below is a compilation of some of the comments and debate generated by the Iraq war piece. You can join in with a comment or become a citizen reporter for your part of the world. Just click on the "contact reporter" button at the top of this article, or post your stories to our Talk Back section on the front page.

Reader "Not Korean" felt Ms. Gang's article was "funny fiction":

This was a funny story, great piece of fiction. I doubt that much of her story is true. It just sounds made up.... Besides is the author too stupid to understand that there is an ongoing conflict in Iraqi? She is lucky the U.S. allowed her in the country at all. Every story that Koreans print about the war is skewed in favor of terrorist. What this means is that Koreans are indirectly aiding the terrorist network in the world by spreading hate and lies. The author needs to find a real purpose in life.


Critical comments addressed to "Not Korean" came streaming in – posted at the bottom of the comment:

Not USA: ...and the rest of the world watches this "war" without the corporate U.S. media filters.
Shopworn: Just another dumb white-guy Republican thinker...
BushKnew: Another non thinker blinded by dumb patriotism !
JoGirl: You make me feel even more ashamed than I already did.
Chris: The author got off her ass and went to the country in question and took pictures.


Jenna then took "Not Korean" to task in a separate comment:

"Not Korean" is an example of the subspecies Ignoramus Americanus. His subspecies has two classes: uninformed and self-deluded. The first kind has the capacity to change with the application of information; the second kind will only change when a bomb hits them. My approach with the first kind is simple--I besiege them with facts. You know, lists of Bush's and Cheney's arrests for drunkenness and possession, Bush's (lack of) a military record, Abu Ghraib torture photos, Cheney's ties, Bush's lies, etc. The second kind--well, they're hopeless. So "Not Korean," if you don't want to be hopeless: put down the beer, move away from the TV set, and start doing your own thinking (Rush won't live forever, you know, not with the drugs he's taking). Don't panic, you have something between your ears called a brain and with some rehabilitation, it might start working again.
(snip)

[DemoTex]

22. "Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind." Hosea 8:7

"From what I saw it is not a war, it is a massacre."
E.J. Gang

[burrowowl]

24. This made me think

of Orador-sur-Gland in SW France were the Nazis put over a hundred people in a church and burned it down.