back to the war in iraq......what is done in OUR name

"Diyala province is the latest battleground in the fight against Al Qaeda, and since the operation began last week, at least nine U.S. soldiers have been killed. The insurgents holed up here remain tenacious, unleashing suicide bombers and planting lethal explosives that can blow anything off the road. And they've upped the ante. A severed head turned up last week in a deserted market in Shakarat, a mere 500 yards from the U.S. military's combat outpost. It was the 10th head discovered in two weeks—gruesome warnings of what will happen to anyone who helps the Americans. "They stuck the head of one of my brothers on the bridge close to the camp," a local farmer, Nazem Aziz Habib, told me as he walked by with his two children."



http://www.newsweek.com/id/91672
In Diyala, A New Offensive | Newsweek Periscope | Newsweek.com


from
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2008/01/now-diyala.html
BAGnewsNotes: Now Diyala


This was done to this father and his daughter in my OUR name.

The father is emasculated in front of his daughter in OUR name

The young lady who will have nightmares of that day because this was done in OUR name.

1953; CIA topples democratic government of Iran, brings detested Shah back to power
1954;US troops crush highly progressive democratic government in Guatemala, brings in dictator
Fast forward...
1973; US topples Chile's democratic government, brings in dictator
This list could go on and on. Just transitioning to a new president in November, no matter what party, isn't going to change the pathology in Washington.

:sarcasm:

Photos our TV will never show....



Children watch as U.S. army soldiers from Ghostrider Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, unseen, search their home during Operation Phantom Phoenix in the village of Abu Musa on the northern outskirts of Muqdadiyah, in the volatile Diyala province, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008. The U.S. military launched Operation Phantom Phoenix on Tuesday as a nationwide campaign against al-Qaida in Iraq.
(AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)



U.S. army soldiers from Ghostrider Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment consult their map during Operation Phantom Phoenix in the village of Abu Musa on the northern outskirts of Muqdadiyah, in the volatile Diyala province, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008. The U.S. military launched Operation Phantom Phoenix on Tuesday as a nationwide campaign against al-Qaida in Iraq.
(AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)









A woman cries as she talks to a U.S. army soldier from Ghostrider Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, as the rest of his unit search a home during Operation Phantom Phoenix in the village of Abu Musa on the northern outskirts of Muqdadiyah, in the volatile Diyala province, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008. The U.S. military launched Operation Phantom Phoenix on Tuesday as a nationwide campaign against al-Qaida in Iraq.
(AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)



A U.S. army soldier from Ghostrider Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment runs through smoke generated by a smoke grenade during Operation Phantom Phoenix in the village of Abu Musa on the northern outskirts of Muqdadiyah, in the volatile Diyala province, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008. The U.S. military launched Operation Phantom Phoenix on Tuesday as a nationwide campaign against al-Qaida in Iraq.
(AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)