Iraq is full of Gremlins

Civil war, anyone?

A group of armed men burst into a primary school in a town south of Baghdad today, rounded up five teachers, marched them to an empty classroom and executed them, a police official said. All of those killed were Shiite.

While Iraqis are tormented by daily attacks, teachers have rarely, if ever, been the targets. The killing was particularly cruel as it took place while some children were still at the school, called al-Jazeera, and raised fears that schools, largely unprotected here, could become a new target. full

Mission accomplished.

I have an Iraqi bank note with Saddamn's picture on it hanging up on my board at work. The artist's rendition of his likeness is not like him at all. Absent are the flames of evil in his eyes, the psychopathic gleam of hatred that shone light onto his barbaric lust for power. I only keep the bill because it is something foreign, not just from another country, but from another world, one with dictators and War and fear of dark corners.

Despite it all, children were safe in schools in Saddamn's Iraq. Women were free to come outside without having acid thrown in their faces. Bombs didn't mutulate scores of innocents every day. Terrorists didn't multiply like a wet Gremlin. We created these things. Bushie's pals loved the bangs and the booms like a Siren's song, but they became enraptured and incapable of doing anything once they had destroyed everything.

The neocons had no right to do this to the Iraqi people. Tolstoy said that death provides the individual with a definition of life. For Iraqis, it seems to be THE definition of life.

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