Anybody else hear the radio interview with Dahr Jamail today?

[LynzM]

I can't remember the name of the show it was on, sorry...

I'm so sick, so, so sick about what we are doing to the citizens of Iraq. That feeling started back in 2003, when I saw the photo of a soldier handing a headless child back to his father... that photo almost made me vomit, and the feeling has not left. But listening to Dahr speak today, listening to just HOW bad it is and HOW MUCH is kept from us, twisted, how lied to our citizens are, how deluded about what we are doing there, I just feel so hopeless. Hopeless and cynical. I wonder how Dahr sleeps at night, having seen what he's seen.

1.1-1.2 MILLION dead Iraqi citizens. Many dead from gunfire shot into houses and cars, in return for IEDs, whose source is not found, and the soldiers lash out.... I cannot imagine, cannot begin to start to fathom, what it's like to live in Iraq right now. To watch your family, your children, parents, friends, killed and maimed, and FOR WHAT!?

End the occupation of Iraq. Bring the troops home. The Iraqis don't want us there, and I don't blame them.

[LynzM]

1. One kick... anybody?

[leftchick]

2. was he on NPR?

I would love to hear him. I always read his reports as hard as they are to handle. The US has committed so many war crimes.

:(


Here is his web site....http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/

[LynzM]

4. Nope, not NPR

Then, I could have found it. It was a smaller, 1/2 hour show on one of our local "free radio" type stations... will try to track it down...

[leftchick]

10. now that I think about it

there is no way NPR would have him on. Too much truth for the corporations. :(

[LynzM]

13. They had him on for 5 minutes last week or earlier this week.

You can read about it on his blog: http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/interviews/000509.php

From that entry:

Dahr Jamail: I was recently over in both Sweden and Denmark and it was a really interesting trip mainly by how the information I was giving to people was handled by even the mainstream media there. It was much more open, much more receptive to broadcasting the information I was giving out. Just to give you an example just while I was in Denmark alone I was on a national television nightly news program called, “Deadline”. I was on a national radio program. I was interviewed by at least four newspapers and a couple of different magazines as well, just very broad exposure. We figured that by the end of that trip we got information out to over a million people in that country alone.

Contrast that to the U.S. where the only time I’ve been on a national program was just at the end of last week, ironically, I was on NPR, National Public Radio, for a five minute segment and that was after a twenty minute interview. We were talking about the Iraqi hospitals and I talked about the U.S. Military attacking hospitals and shooting ambulances and impeding medical care, which is of course a war crime, but that part was cut from the interview. Contrast that to the exposure I had while over in Europe. The mainstream media there, while quite imperfect, of course, was still not reluctant to go ahead and broadcast everything that I was saying.

Scary example of just how bad our media really is, and how owned.

[bdamomma]

3. we are committing genocide on a people and a country

that did nothing to us, we are raping them for only their resources, this is on all of us. Cheney and * must be stopped my words ring hollow but we will pay for this, or are we paying now?

[LynzM]

6. We *will* pay.

It starts now, with the destruction of internal resources and support services due to "Lack of funds" (but 70,000,000,000 more dollars for the war?!?!). Then, the rest of the world stops feeding our greedy selves financially, and down we go. Oy.

[Zywiec]

5. Why did that feeling of sickness only start in 2003?

Didn't you care about the more than half-million children starved to death by US sanctions in the 90's? Luckily times were good then and we didn't have to think about it...

[LynzM]

7. Um, because I'm only 27?

Honestly, I wasn't really politically aware until I was about 22, which was in 2002. Sorry to not have been mourning starving children when I was 8 years old....

You make a good point, though. The U.S. has always committed atrocities, this one is just on a very, very big scale. Wonder if it will be like Vietnam, where those who are born in a couple decades won't even know about it. Hell, those who are my age now often don't know about it. Ugh.

[Zywiec]

8. I can understand how you wouldn't have know about it

Most people on the board don't want to look back to what we were doing in Iraq prior to Bush 2.

[LynzM]

9. Yeah. Pretty much our whole previous interaction with Iraq/Iran/Afghanistan is f'd up.

So much muddled history of who gave/sold what weapons to whom, helped install/remove which dictators, on and on... ugh.

[madokie]

11. enough is enough. the Iraqi do not want a democracy and won't have a democracy

they might have been lead into it but not now since the senseless murder of so many of their citizens. I will say that no Iraqi will ever want anything to do with anything that has anything to do with the USA ever again. bushco has made a very bad decision to invade and occupy a country for its natural resources with no regard for life or limb. there is flat out no other reasons for the bush/cheney cabal to be doing what they are doing other than to steal

[LynzM]

12. I respectfully disagree.

They *may* want a democracy. I definitely agree, though, that an occupation is NOT the way to go about creating one, especially an occupation that involves killing more than a million people! :grr:

[defendandprotect]

15. You don't introduce democracy with a sword ---

[defendandprotect]

14. The entire planet is being tortured by Bushco ---

Last night I couldn't sleep just thinking about people being transported in boxes

20" X 20" --- in one case for 17 hours ---

As I recall, they stack these boxes in trucks on top of one another ---


Only the MSM/"free press" can get these pictures into the minds of Americans ---
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I wanted to paint a picture of it last night; but how to do this justice?

The first photo I saw of an Iraqi victim was a young boy --- most of arms and
legs gone!!!

And -- NY Times yesterday runs a colored photo of our servicemen -- Front page TOP ---an American medic "teating an Afghan boy's foot infection."

When do we return to Iraq and replace all the arms and legs and bodies we've torn apart???

[LynzM]

16. I hear ya, dude....

:hug: :hug: :hug: It makes me so angry, how complicit our media is in allowing most Americans to stay in their happy little "we're always good and kind and on the right side" bubbles. Gah! :banghead: :grr:

[defendandprotect]

17. dupe --- deleted

[defendandprotect]

18. There seems to be a slight crack in what's happening --- do you think?