Here we go
I feel sort of sick to my stomach. You?
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Depressed. Ashamed to be American. Angry. In some ways completely, utterly hopeless.
Kofi Annan warned the US & UK that “under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents.” I agree with Adam & Arthur — sick and ashamed.
I like that term, “belligerents.” Seems appropriate. Good for Mr. Annan.
Disgusted and depressed
I am feeling rather ill myself.
Lots of things, but sick is definitely in there somewhere.
> These people seem to be feeling the opposite. Although their joy may be temporarily overpowering the hunger sickness in THEIR stomachs.
Whatever you think about the war, or the motives behind it, there must be some ounce in you that can appreciate the fear these people live in every day under Saddam, and how good it must feel to be out from under it.
[at the beginning of “Shock and Awe”] — somehow, I think “these people” must be feeling pretty fearful right now — when their country is being bombed “back to the stone ages” as the right-wingers like to say.
In around 1968 we were saying we had to destroy villages in order to save them. It didn’t work then, either.
Well, I’m not aware of any villages full of civilians that have been bombed back to the stone age. And I still contest, these people are more afraid of Saddam than being bombed…something that is not happening by all reports by the way. We are not there bombing the crap out of every civilian target we possibly can, no matter how you spin it.
Let’s talk about fear shall we???(from a human-shield):
[A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip “had shocked me back to reality.” Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera “told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn’t start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam’s bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head.”]
-from United Press International, 3/21/2003
Interviews with Iraqi citizens ready to commit suicide if America does not start bombing to rid Iraq of Saddam. amazing. spin that.