Sunday, March 17, 2019

What will be remembered/acknowledged?

Margaret Griffis (ANTIWAR.COM) notes, "Members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (P.K.K.) attacked a Turkish base on Mount Chyadel in northern Iraq. Two Turkish soldiers were killed, and eight were wounded. Six P.K.K. members were also killed. Iraq has demanded that Turkish troops leave Iraqi territory but has, so far, been ignored by Ankara."


In addition, XINHUA reports, "Four Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Sunday in an security operation in Iraq's eastern province of Diayla, a provincial police source said."  And the outlet reports, "A clash in northern Iraq killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded five Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants on Sunday, the Iraqi military said."

Two nights away from the 16th anniversary, the Iraq War continues.

Also continuing, the Basra protests:

  1.  Mar 11
    CC: ; ; ; : If this was a peaceful protest, you would have sent the entire army to shoot and kill young men. But, since this type of “marketed” image of serves your interests, you leave civilians to fend for themselves.
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    CC: ; ; ; : Are the Security Forces only used to suppress peaceful protests and kill innocent civilians in ? Alternatively, why are they unable to truly do their job and secure civilians?
    على من يسعى الى فض النزاعات العشائرية المسلحة في ان يخبر القوات الأمنية بإنها مظاهرة ضد الحكومتين المحلية والإتحادية لتتحرك
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  3.  Mar 10
    احتجاجات البصرة 8/3/2019 BASRA PROTESTS
     
     
  4.  Mar 10
    BP’s Iraq Operations Praised by British Ambassador Prior to Fatal Basra Civil Unrest Shortly before violent protests broke out in the oil-producing city of Basra in Iraq, British government representative...
     
     
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    احتجاجات البصرة 8/3/2019 BASRA PROTESTS
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On the anniversary, what will get noted?  Anything current?  Or just a bunch of talk about 2003 that's already been said a million times before? 

Will the world face the fact that the Iraq War continues or just pretend like invoking the name of Bully Boy Bush qualifies as coverage?

  1.  11 hours ago
    Much has been written about US conduct of Vietnam war & the war crimes committed by US military including carpet bombing & use of agent orange. Had the commission found US commanders culpable would it have stopped the massacre in Fallujah-Iraq & numerous crimes in Afghanistan?
    On this day 51 years ago U.S. troops killed more than 500 innocent men, women and children in My Lai, South Vietnam. And Americans were soon misled to believe those murders were not in line with a fundamental policy adopted by the US command in Vietnam.
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Will realities like that be touched on?  Or will the press just keep ignoring the realities.

 16 hours ago
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A consequence is that Fallujah today has a higher rate of birth defects than Hiroshima or Nagasaki ever did. This is just one consequence. I could spend hours talking abt how America ruined the Iraqi economy, how they intentionally left a power vacuum, hijacked resources, etc.
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  1.  Mar 16
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    For more on Fallujah and what we left in our wake:
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  2.  Mar 16
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    Children in Fallujah are being born with exposed spinal cords, missing or deformed limbs, scaly skin, protruding tumors, and defects that the doctors do not even have names for.
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  3.  Mar 16
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    These rates are so high that some medical researchers compare the health fallout in Fallujah with that of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped.
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  4.  Mar 16
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    At present 14% of all children born in Fallujah are born with birth defects. The cancer rates in children are 12 times higher than what should be expected in a healthy population.
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