Must read: Riverbend's Baghdad blog

[blitzen]

someone posted this in Editorials--it's powerful, sad, and will make you even more pissed

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x222059

[saigon68]

1. K & R

GET OUT THE WORD

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#115264752348608248

In the news they're estimating her age to be around 24, but Iraqis from the area say she was only 14. Fourteen. Imagine your 14-year-old sister or your 14-year-old daughter. Imagine her being gang-raped by a group of psychopaths and then the girl was killed and her body burned to cover up the rape. Finally, her parents and her five-year-old sister were also killed. Hail the American heroes... Raise your heads high supporters of the 'liberation' - your troops have made you proud today. I don't believe the troops should be tried in American courts. I believe they should be handed over to the people in the area and only then will justice be properly served. And our ass of a PM, Nouri Al-Maliki, is requesting an 'independent investigation', ensconced safely in his American guarded compound because it wasn't his daughter or sister who was raped, probably tortured and killed. His family is abroad safe from the hands of furious Iraqis and psychotic American troops.

[madokie]

2. As if being more pissed is possible

how I hope we as a country survive long enough to maybe atone for our transgressions.
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