This Revulsion Will Not Be Televised: C. L. Cook

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Though the horrors of last November's Haditha Massacre are gruesome enough to revolt any sentient being with a modicum of empathy, it doesn't matter in and of itself. It doesn't matter when Haditha's happen in Iraq everyday. Yes, the names and details change, but the mentality of the killers, and the mortality of their victims exists in a continuum. It is Terror's routine, as intrepid American, self-made journalist, Dahr Jamail reports. Jamail is one of the few, and I expect only American reporter, to have penetrated the truth behind the resistance in Iraq and survive to tell the tale says:

"There have been countless My Lai massacres, and we cannot blame 0.1% of the soldiers on the ground in Iraq for killing as many as a quarter of a million Iraqis, when it is the policies of the Bush administration that generated the failed occupation to begin with."

Jamail reminds; even if the Pentagon's well-worn mea culpa of "bad apples" run amok soothes the digestion of those who still defend the "war" and its "war president" at home, in Iraq, in the real world, where both morgues and hospitals overflow, the systemic destruction and the true nature and scope of the suffering this grand Bush adventure exacts on the people is known better.

None in Iraq can credit the American effort there without seeming utter fools; or agents. That includes the nominal prime minister, emplaced by the universally hated United States, and every soldier, or policeman trained and armed to service the occupier's demands. While it's true, the Anglo-American covert car bombing campaign has succeeded in some measure to turn the more thick-headed sectarians against one another in Iraq, most Iraqis, sectarian and lay, recognize this crude manoeuvre for what it is, and will not be fooled again.