Escalation Joe
15 June 2007 10:13 am by Taylor Marsh
What
I Saw in Iraq, by Joe Lieberman, is quite a read. But I'd suggest a dose
of reality instead, compliments of Editor & Publisher.
The following is too long to read but I beg you; please save five minutes
of your time and read it.After the invasion in 2003 the city of Fallujah is not any more known to
Iraqis as the city of the best Kabab in the country or the city that has one
of the few Iraqi beautiful tourism cities or its many mosques… it is
known for resistance and terrorism.Dramatic changes took place in the city. The city prefers to ally with the
American troops rather than with Al Qaeda.The city is under siege. You can not go in only through certain checkpoints
with a badge issued by the marines. The main soccer field in the city is now
a cemetery. The only amusement park in the city was looted and destroyed;
its trees were used by the locals to bake their bread. Now the former amusement
park is intended to be the next cemetery.Instead of being the city of mosques it will be the city of cemeteries and
this will be another achievement of the invasion that residents of Fallujah
will remember through generations. Please don’t let that happen. Don’t
give extremists more arguments and evidences to fuel anger and to deceive
and recruit young men with them.It can be avoided by allowing the residents to bury their beloved in the
northern east cemetery through Al Sichir checkpoint (as locals call it). Just
move that check point 300 meters away and then it is solved.Restore cell phones. Take a bold action and bring cell towers to the American
camps or provide security to the existent ones so Al Qaeda won’t attack
em. Prove to the people that you can do things right.People can not understand how great armed forces, like the U.S.army and marines,
can not help restoring electricity, water not even cell phones so people can
cooperate with the authorities at least.Please don’t let the people remember your country in this way; making
cities full with cemeteries more than it is already (some people in Fallujah
buried their sons in their home gardens in 2004).It is unfair to my people in Fallujah. It is unfair thing to do to the mothers
of the soldiers who thought that they are sending their beloved sons to help
millions of Iraqis. It is unfair thing to do to the good American citizens
that I knew and met.Please help not to change the name of Fallujah to the city of cemeteries.
… ..Latest
from McClatchy's Iraqi Staffers: The 'City of Cemeteries'
