- Our shameful attacks on the Holy City of Najaf with F16s,
Apaches, Bradleys and tanks, destroying holy sites, people,s homes, hospitals
and schools is unforgiveable. This is a further black day in America,s
history. We have killed the native Americans, made slaves of African Americans,
abused the Third World for two centuries, killed foreign leaders such as
Allende of Chile, Bishop of Grenada, tried to kill Fidel Castro and Mu'ummar
Qaddafi of Libya, and have killed Imam Hakim in Iraq, tried to kill Sistani
and are now trying to kill a leader of the common people, Muqtadr Al Sadr
- all under the flag of 'democracy' and 'freedom'. Actually, we are the
new colonialists and have been for some time. It is once again time for
us ordinary citizens to chastise our government and its wrong doings in
the world - this time in Iraq.
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- We are losing the cream of our youth in Iraq and Afghanistan,
not only that but the U.S. military has even recalled a 68 year old to
service in Iraq, has recalled many other grandfathers in their 50s, uncles
and fathers in their 40s - all to feed the Bush team of neo-cons frenzy
to control the oil of the Middle East and to keep the Arab world under
the feet of America and its brother power, Israel. This loss of American
lives for the Bush gang and the Likud of Israel gang is criminal and must
be stopped.
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- There must also be stop put to the American attacks on
Iraqs Holy Cities, and on such leaders as Al Sadr. He is correct to defend
Mulsim holy cities in Iraq, just as Catholics would defend Rome and the
Vatican, Jews the Wailing Wall and Muslims the other holy cities of Mecca,
Medina and Jerusalem. What the Bush team is doing is sacrilege - sin in
the eyes of God and of the educated and civilized world. This is barbarism"and
as an excuse, the intruders, the invaders, our American troops, are being
painted in our media as 'the good guys' when in fact, they are in the wrong
and the world knows it.
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- For what is morally right, American troops should withdraw
from Najaf and Karbala - should get out of Iraq and apologize to the people
of Iraq for their aberrant, sinful behavior in Najaf, Baghdad, Karabala
and at Abu Ghraib and other prisons throughout Iraq where more criminal
cruelty took place, and continues to take place under deceptive cover and
non-entrance allowed to the International Red Cross or UN representatives.
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- As for the fighting in Najaf - it was started by the
American troops. American journalists and natives of Najaf said the weapons
that opened fire first were the heavy American weapons, not the small arms
fire of the AK 47s used by the Iraqi police and the Medhi Army of Al Sadr.
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- Thus, once again, we want to punish the Iraqi resistance
because Negroponte, Bush and Allawi want total control before the November
elections. But, it,s not going to happen, unless thousands more Iraqis
are killed. But to Negroponte, the devil from South American days when
he helped the Contras, Bush with his ambition to take over Iraqi oil and
Allawi's desire to be safe in a land where he is an outsider, an exile
who is not welcome and is under death threat - the death of thousands of
Iraqis doesn't matter. As far as the Bush team is concerned, the Iraqis
are no better than dogs - this is evidenced by the way he, Cheney, Rumsfeld,
Ashcroft, Kimmit, Miller, Sanchez and others have treated the Iraqis since
they came into power in Iraq"with cruelty, disdain and brutality.
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- So, let's make it clear - there is no reason to demonize
Al Sadr - better to demonize the real devils in this situation, Bush, Negroponte,
Miller, Allawi and 'defense minister' Naqib - not the U.S. servicemen who
are ordered to carry out immoral and un-Christian deeds, nor Al Sadr who
is defending the holy places of the Shi'a of Islam. If we allow the lies
of the U.S. media and the U.S. military and the U.S. politicians to prevail,
we shall all be complictous in this evil. Write congresspersons, your senators,
to the blackened White House (president@whitehouse.gov) to protest this
evil ... it is on all of our heads.
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- Professor Sam Hamod is a former advisor to the State
Department; editor of 3rd World News: Director of The Islamic Center of
Washington, DC (retired) and edits www.todaysalternativenews.com. He may
be reached at shamod@cox.net.
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