GAZA STRIP EAST

In Fallujah, donkeys tell a tale
By Ali al-Fadhily

FALLUJAH - A brave new attempt is under way to project that all is well now with Fallujah. Residents know better - or worse.

An article titled "Fallujah catches its breath" in the independent Salon.com magazine on August 21 described the improving situation in Fallujah in a report by David Morris, a former marine who works as an embedded reporter with US forces in Iraq:
Fallujah, once the symbol of everything gone wrong with the American mission in Iraq, seems to be breathing again. About half the shops are open. Groups of children wave heartily at American convoys driving by.

A journalist who lives in Fallujah told IPS that several local journalists had been detained and warned of trouble for them if they reported anything other than "good news" about Fallujah.

"The media in the West are lying about Fallujah by saying everything is well," said the journalist. "What is so good about a city that lives with no electricity, no water, no fuel, very expensive life necessities, and most important, with no vehicles? Moreover the unemployment is incredibly high."

A tour of the city on foot gives the impression of the Dark Ages. People are back to riding donkeys. Everyone IPS spoke with complained of the extremely high price of basic goods, and a lack of work that could raise money to meet those needs

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II07Ak04.html

And so it goes in another American made hell hole. Not the one created with America's help, financial backing and weapons that Israel created in Gaza and the rest of Occupied Palestine, but the hell hole America created--with Israeli advice--in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

No electricity. Sewage backing up in the streets. No clean drinking water. No fuel to cook food. No vehicles allowed on the streets. Concrete barriers set up in and around Fallujah to fence in the population. Heavily armed troops roaming about, ready at a moment's notice to shoot to kill.

Like one Iraqi said, they don't have to read about the Stone Age to understand that period of time, they are now living in the Stone Age.

Overhead, American made and manned lethal implements of death and destruction hover in the form of Apache and Cobra helicopter gunships. Aided by the very lethal F-16 fighter-bomber and the even more lethal Spectre C-130 flying gunship--here's a partial description of this death dealer: With its extremely accurate fire control system, the AC-130 can place 105mm, 40mm and 25mm munitions on target with first round accuracy. The crew of these aircraft are extremely proficient working in military operations in urban terrain [MOUT] environments.
It's nickname? Spooky

All of this visited upon an Iraqi city that was made an example of for daring to fight back against the foreign occupation army sent by America.

This is GW Bush's idea of "democracy" in the ME. Democracy that comes in the form of heavily armed troops, sticking guns in the indigenous Iraqi's face so they can be liberated.

Liberated indeed. LIberated from the task of breathing and living to see another day, if they refuse to be ground into the dirt by America's occupation army.

Liberated from their history, that goes back thousands of years, so America can rewrite the past to our liking.

Liberated from their most valuable natural resource, oil. This will also liberate the Iraqi's from worries about which devastated Iraqi city to spend oil revenue on, since America will control the oil and give concessions to the Bush/Cheney Junta gang of criminal friends.

GW Bush and his version of "democracy." Liberating Iraqi's from their oil and lives in the name of freedom.