DarkObserver, 30. März 2003 um 17:16:29 MESZ

Enough war-blogging

I've decided that -after this entry- I will stop writing about the war in Iraq. Why? Because it fills me with a cold, almost numbing fury when I look at what's happening.

It is a reality that the most powerful country in the world is governed by a total moron, who wasn't even rightfully voted into office by the American people, but RULED into office by the same conservative judges in the Supreme Court his father had conveniently installed there years before.

This dumb-ass MF is about to throw the whole world into social and economical turmoil and no one is there to stop him. Billions of people around the world feel threatened and humiliated by this imperialistic policy which has in fact been carefully planned for years by rightist Christian think-tanks in America.

The consequences of this war will be felt by everyone and I hope Americans will remember -or finally realize- who is responsible when more and more of their soldiers return home not in triumph, but in a casket.

Or when the next terrorist attack takes innocent lives because this war has achieved the exact opposite of one of its -pretended- goals: To dry out the sources of terrorism and quell the hatred many people in the Arab world feel for the United States.

Americans: Hit the street, demonstrate and oust this moron from the White House for your own good and for that of the whole world! Listen to fellow Americans like Michael Moore: www.theage.com.au

As an aside: I'm getting lots of referrals from search engines where people -my guess is: Americans- have entered search terms like "dead American soldiers". What US networks aren't showing, a percentage of people is obviously catching up with by using the Internet.

DarkObserver, 26. März 2003 um 18:59:22 MEZ

Snafus abound

The situation in Iraq is getting worse and worse. For some reason U.S. airstrikes have been hitting more civilian areas of Baghdad since Sunday. No comment so far on this from the Pentagon or the White House.

An Iraqi counter-offensive is underway it seems. Hundreds have already died in the battle for Basra and Nadschaf. Lots of them members of the Allied Forces, too.

This war is exactly turning into the sort of fucked-up mess critics like myself have foretold.

I wish, we'd been wrong...

DarkObserver, 23. März 2003 um 18:39:21 MEZ

Iraq War: Day 4

Okay, let's see:

• Coalition forces busy with killing each other: a.) Friendly fire incident (Americans shooting down a British aircraft) b.) Two British helicopters colliding c.) An American soldier going bananas with grenades, killing one of his comrades, wounding several others d.) Oh yeah: American-led troups shoot dead a British news reporter

Hell knows what other glitches may be happening, that we'll never know of

• Some American soldiers captured by enemy forces and shown on Iraqi TV. When Donald Rumsfeld is spontaneously confronted with these images on CBS, he suddenly remembers the Geneva Convention for POWs (Prisoners of War) Uh-huh. At the the same time, the US is denying the guys they're holding in Guantanamo Bay -captured during what they called themselves the "WAR on Terror"- this exact same status of POWs. Or what about the intimidating pictures of Iraqi POWs shown yesterday by American TV? Talk about double-standards...

• Attention US readers: Bodies of several dead American soldiers could be seen on Iraqi TV! This footage is being withheld from American audiences by almost all American TV stations. I'm in Germany and our news is not censored, so believe me, it's true, I saw them!

• Umm Qasr in the South of Iraq, is NOT totally under control of coalition forces, besides earlier statements claiming the contrary

• Turkish troups may or may not have entered Northern Iraq, complicating things, if they did. Could start a war between the Kurds and Turkey. What would the US do then? Who would they side with?

• Bombing of Baghdad continues, civilian casualties are on the rise besides the so-called "hightly targeted" strikes

• The march towards Baghdad has gotten stalled, meeting fierce resistance, much more than expected. Bush still sees "objectives accomplished", though. Yeah, right. Go have a drink, dude.

War is no walk in the park and it's time that more Americans began to see through the veil of propaganda woven in recent weeks!