"a freedom of killing. You cannot gain democracy through blood or killing"

[Roland99]

All of Us Participate in a New Iraq
By Dahr Jamail
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051006Z.shtml

"I am crazy today with this news Dahr," my friend exclaimed, his hands up in the air, "The number of people killed here is growing so fast everyday, it is shit." He hung his head back and took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled. He reminisced how his whole life had been the same in Iraq but never as bad as at that point. "When I was a child, it was common to have some family member or the other killed in the war with Iran," he said, "but now, everyone is dying every day."

...

Commenting on the current situation, he told me: "I can assure you, it is well over 75% of Iraqis who cannot even tolerate this occupation. The right-wing Bush administration is blinded by its ideology, and we are all suffering from this, Iraqis and soldiers alike." I cannot forget his concluding remarks to me. "Iraq is burning with wrath, anger and sadness."

Another telling instance of how nothing good happens in Iraq reached me on November 19th, exactly a week after my meeting with Dr. Nadhme. I received a call from one of my interpreters, who at the time was in his mosque for the Friday prayers. I could hear the deafening roar of hundreds of people chanting, "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest). The sound reverberated in the confined area behind his panicking voice: "I am being held at gunpoint by American soldiers inside Abu Hanifa mosque, Dahr." His incredulous bewilderment was palpable as he yelled, "Everyone is praying to God because the Americans are raiding our mosque during Friday prayer!"

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When later he came to my hotel, he was distraught and crying. "I am in a very sad position. I do not see any freedom or any democracy. If this could lead into a freedom, it is a freedom with blood. It is a freedom with emotions of sadness. It is a freedom of killing. You cannot gain democracy through blood or killing. You do not find the freedom that way. People were going to pray to God and they were killed and wounded. There were 1,500 people praying to God, and they went on a holiday where people go every Friday for prayers. And they were shot and killed. There were so many women and kids lying on the ground. This is not democracy, neither freedom."

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[gWbush is Mabus]

1. 1500 were murdered in one friday?

[Roland99]

2. I think it was just emotion of the moment...sort of stream of consciousnes

If 1500 were killed in one day, no way they could have kept that covered up.