Fwd: RE: [lbo-talk] is this your liberation?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Apr 11 14:22:11 PDT 2003


[Not sure whether Steve meant this for the list or me, but it seems too important to pass up. I'm no fan of Jefferson nor of God, but I've been internally quoting this remark a lot lately: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever...."]


>From: Steve Perry <SPerry at citypages.com>
>To: 'Doug Henwood ' <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] is this your liberation?
>Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:41:47 -0500
>
>or how about this? it's pasted from an account now posted at the english al
>jazeera. (i haven't read all the morning posts yet; apologies if someone's
>pointed it out.)
>
>----
>
>Many Iraqi civilians and a US tank crew died today when a huge explosion
>destroyed around twenty houses in Baghdad, Al Jazeera channel reported. The
>explosion is the result of US marines attempting to decommission Iraqi
>munitions and rockets left by Saddam Hussein's army in the Atayfiyya
>residential quarter of the capital....
>
>Many local residents of Atafiyya pleaded with the US troops to remove the
>munitions far away from the district, fearing for their safety. However,
>these calls fell on deaf ears and the US soldiers fired a shell on the
>arsenal which exploded at once....
>
>[P]art of the arsenal contained over 200 missiles--Austrian in
>origin--and... the resulting explosion was like an inferno, emitting a
>terrifying explosion. The number of dead was increased by the fact that many
>other rockets flew off in all directions, some landing on houses of local
>residents. The number of dead and wounded cannot be estimated at this time
>due to the severity of the wreckage.



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