It happens every day:
Baghdad, Iraq - A fiery explosion tore through a line of people waiting to buy fuel Saturday and killed at least 38 people, mainly women and children, continuing the wave of tit-for-tat sectarian killings that have defied U.S. efforts to stanch the bloodshed.It is just not possible for this to go on any longer. I thought it was not possible to go on any longer years ago. I'm not a very good prophet.
The horrific blast sent women engulfed in flames screaming through the streets. Two preteen girls embraced each other as they burned to death, witnesses said. Later, wailing mourners thronged the scene of the blast, which was strewn with the shoes of victims and a woman's bloodied cloak, and voiced doubt that the reprisal violence would ever end.(emphasis added)
Oh, the article continues:
By midafternoon, the street where the explosion took place was still littered with abandoned yellow, red and blue jerrycans. Bits of flesh flecked the muddy ground, and blood pooled in front of Um Ali's home, left by a woman who clutched her infant child as she bled from a wound in her neck.No sane person with a speck of decency can let this go on. There must be immediate political change in the United States, the prime cause of the carnage. How, though, I don't know.
"She mumbled some words incoherently," said Um Ali, 40. "Then she fell at my doorstep and died."
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Sane people with a speck of decency are the minority in the United States, sad to say. The majority are like the three monkeys in the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" picture -- they don't want to see, they don't want to hear, and they certainly aren't going to speak out about it. Otherwise they would have to confront their own complicity in this atrocity, and we can't have that, knowledge of their own complicity might make them feel bad...
- Badtux the Cynical Penguin
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