Iraq: the unthinkable becomes normal

As for the defenders, those Iraqis who resist in a city that heroically defied Saddam Hussein; they were merely “insurgents holed up in the city”, as if they were an alien body, a lesser form of life to be “flushed out” (the British Guardian): a suitable quarry for “rat-catchers”, which is the term another BBC reporter told us the Black Watch use.

In a letter sent on October 14 to Kofi Annan, the Fallujah Shura Council, which administers the city, said: “The people of Fallujah assure you that this person, if he exists, is not in Fallujah . . . and we have no links to any groups supporting such inhuman behaviour. We appeal to you to urge the UN [to prevent] the new massacre which the Americans and the puppet government are planning to start soon in Fallujah, as well as many parts of the country.”
Not a word of this was reported in the mainstream media in Britain and the US.
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and what baffles me is the ignorance of americans, when they ask people why america is so hated...

a new system is possible.

a multi-polar world with no one sole superpower.
that would give the world (a bit more of) a balance.