Reply #5: My gods...my gods... [View All]

[Dhalgren]

How can anyone read that account and not be moved to sadness and anger? And what makes this whole fucking mess so un-fucking-believable is that it is all happening for no damned good reason. These are pointless, methodical murders and the US soldiers who are committing these killings are completely out of their minds. I could almost understand saying that the soldiers have to shoot first and worry about it later if the war against Iraq were one of necessity; but it isn't. It is a war for criminal greed and political gain and every death of an Iraqi in Iraq by US hands is, therefore, an unjustified killing; which we used to call murder...