h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I feel kind of down. I must be in need of sleep. Or maybe it's just shite like this in the world:

'A contact of mine just returned from spending a week in Fallujah. We shared some of the food brought from my friend in Baquba.

“I’d been in Fallujah for a week and all I’d seen was tough military tactics,” he tells me, “They are arresting people and putting them in these trucks, blindfolded and tied up. Everywhere I looked all I saw was utter devastation.”

He spoke with many families who told him one horror story after another, death after death after death.

“Then today, the military brings in a dozen Humvees and ground troops to basically seal off a small area near a market,” he continues, “In the middle of them is a CNN camera crew filming troops throwing candy to kids and these guys in orange vests start cleaning the streets around them.”

He laughs while holding up his arms and says, “I’d never seen those guys anywhere in the city before. I don’t know where they came from.”

After a pause to take a drink of soda he adds, “I’d never seen any boots on the ground at all, and all of the sudden there are all these marines standing around like everything was ok. It was the first time I’d seen any soldier not in a Humvee or a Bradley. I was really surprised.”

“All of it was 100% staged. Good PR before the election,” he says. Then in a reference to mainstream America he adds, “Fallujah is fine, now go back to sleep.”'

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000186.php

Fallujah is fine, now go back to sleep. Ignore the complaints of the dispossessed. Make fun of the Down's Syndrome kid. Teach your kids games to play with the sacred objects of brown people. Insult a stranger's mother. We're down among the dead men. . .

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Sh1te indeed!

Why is it that no matter what name you post under I always know it's you?

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It's just the way of things, I suppose. Anyways, I am bored with the name thingie, and will be making a decision soon.

Meanwhile, your link and posting are very powerful! Good on you for the things you publicise.