Comments on between two rivers: 'Cruel, Callous, Inhumane, Unacceptable' Felicity ...

I ask for evidence, you give me random facts. The...

2007-04-16T09:45:06.636-07:00

I ask for evidence, you give me random facts. The simple truth is that you overstate your dramatic account to sway sheep to follow your deranged political views. I did not ask for a history lesson in depleted uranium, I asked you to prove that the allied military created a "radioactive nightmare" and to show the families that you reference "living in contaminated bomb craters". Show the facts, and don't sidestep the straightforward questions. The Afghan Massacre is a movie. When asked, the "meticulous" and "respected" ex-BBC journalist claimed he had NO evidence the allied forces were involved. In fact, Robert Young Pelton, an actual well-respected journalist, followed Dasht-i-Leili, and has challenged Doran to prove that allied forces had anything to do with the incident. Finally, as for the epidemic of rape and torture you claim, please SHOW this rape and torture you speak of, I'll wait.

I can claim that pigs fly, but unless I can prove it with hard evidence, no one will believe me. You rifle off half-truths and supposed facts and expect that your readers will do no research that could counter your claims, I'M NOT THAT KIND OF READER...No one should be that kind of reader!

Depleted uranium weapons have three times been una...

2007-04-08T12:19:01.731-07:00

Depleted uranium weapons have three times been unanimously designated a weapon of mass destruction by UN Sub-Committees.Last week the Belgium Parliament has voted to ban such weapons.

There is a wealth of materialon the internet, suggest also www.notinkansas.us and the Weyman Report on the umrc site.

The US Army Environmental Policy Institute (June 1995) states:'If DU enters the body, it has the potential to generate significant medical consequences.

The risks associated with DU in the body are both chemical and
radiological'.

Further: 'Short term effects of high doses can result in death, whilst long term effects of low doses have been inmplicated in cancer'. And:'Personnel in or near vehicles struck by DU penetrators could receive significant internal exposure.'

And 'Replacing DU with ... a non-toxic material would mitigate the health risks associated with DU'.And DU is a radioactive waste and therefore ,must be deposited in a licensed repository'.

The AEPI does not suggest on a church, mosque, Chinese embassy or school.

The Afghan massacre 'movie' you refer to is a meticulously researched documentary, by a respected and careful ex-BBC journalist.

As for rape and torture, these are not 'isolated incidents' but an
epidemic.

Best, felicity a.

As for the "Afghan Massacre", you forgot to includ...

2007-04-05T07:29:55.268-07:00

As for the "Afghan Massacre", you forgot to include one very important word, alleged. When I asked you to show me your proof, I did not ask to be lead to a site about a movie. It happens I'm familiar with the claims you have addressed on this site, I just don't gather my political or global views and facts from the movies I watch. The truth is that there is no facts or evidence to support this claim besides a movie, which apparently is enough for you.

Let's move onto the radioactive comments, you said "It (allied tactics) is reducing the country to a radioactive nightmare, where families bombed out of their homes have been found living in contaminated bomb craters - and suffering all the signs of radiation poisoning, according to the Uranium Metal Research Project, bleeding from all orifices with other accompanying appalling symptoms." I read the report which you claim to have cited, and it says NOTHING to support the irresponsible claim you have made above. Please check out:

http://rsna2004.rsna.org/rsna2004/V2004/conference/event_display.cfm?em_id=4408249

for a complete report of the analysis. Their conclusion shows your comments are lies, geared at steering people away from the facts, and towards your twisted way of thinking. I believe the people responsible for the report you cite would be in tears to see the way you have distorted their findings.

There is no question that their have been isolated acts of violence committed by a very small number of Allied troops. These soldiers have been, or are pending, justice. Any soldier that commits a crime should and is held accountable. These do not represent the majority of our soldiers and I, and I would assume along with their families, would appreciate it if you stop painting them out to be murderers and rapists.

The last thing I'd like to point out, is you are the poster child for using questionable evidence. In your article you cite a movie, an organization that did not state what you claimed it did, and overstated the number of Iraqi civilian deaths by hundreds of thousands. It seems you only take the evidence that furthers your agenda, rather than focusing on what the truth may actually be. It's laughable that you'll blame the US and the British for going to war on false pretenses, yet your entire world of thought is based on much less reliant, much more slanted truth.

Please take this article down, you can support very little of the "proof" it contains.

To A.L. Baney:For the Afghan Massacre documentary:...

2007-04-04T12:56:25.095-07:00

To A.L. Baney:

For the Afghan Massacre documentary:

www.acftv.com or google Jamie Doran and see list of his credits.
Documentary is 'Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death'.

It was shown on BBC5, ARD Germany. Rai, Italy.SBS Australia and CBS, Canada.

I wrote Uranium Metal Project, my error, Uranium Metal Research Centre: www.umrc.net it is run and founded by an ex Advisor to the Pentagon and the World Health Organisation on radiation whose cv runs to 52 pages.

Also see: www.afghandufund.org and 'War Crimes' at:
www.traprockpeace.org

For rapes and murders by US troops just google that and add Iraq or
Afganistan. Oh and google 'Abu Ghraib' and 'Bagram'.

Best, felicity a.

I would like proof of what you've mentioned in thi...

2007-04-02T08:16:47.406-07:00

I would like proof of what you've mentioned in this article. You make many claims about allied forces murdering and raping, show me your proof. You claim the allied forces boiled people in metal trucks, show me the proof. You claim the Uranium Metal Research Project has proof of radio active sites and people, prove it, better yet, tell us who the Uranium Metal Research Project...come on, tell us. You mention unspeakable acts committed by the allied forces, I'd like you to prove every allegation you've made about them as well.

Truth is, you cannot prove what you've presented here, you just hope your sheep will not take the time to verify your rhetoric. Truth is, the boiling of Iraqi's is a gripping statement, but the proof does not follow the headlines, no matter if you use a disclaimer or not....cut touch though. The radioactive accusation is laughable at best, and the Uranium Metal Research Project sounds so official...be honest, did you make them up...it's pretty clever. There's no doubt that there have been awful things committed by a few sicko's in uniform, but these are the minority. I trust that crimes committed by any troop will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I also hope those who make false accusations against those very troops will also be held accountable for their actions. I would like proof for EVERY accusation leveled within this post. If not, I would like an apology for our troops. You cannot level charges at someone to prove a political point. You must verify your rhetoric!

Hi peter,you would find that your comment rings on...

2007-04-01T09:43:59.260-07:00

Hi peter,

you would find that your comment rings only true since the US/UK invasion of 2003 but still it holds some inaccuracies as a result of those "Shiite" who are shooting Sunni's as you claim, were factually put into power by the United States and United Kingdoms governments.

All of the death squads, who are operating under the banner of the "democratic" Ministry of the Interior are bands of thugs who were given the green light to "shoot" as a result of British and American intervention.

The puppet masters for these death squads, who are also killing Christians, teenagers on the pre-text of Homosexuality and murdering babies, are being protected in the Green Zone by non-other than US/UK troops - this is fact!

The vast majority of the current repressive regime inside of Iraq, left the country in the 1970's, some even left earlier and are now allowing Iraq's economy to be neglected, school children are being used for target practice by government backed death squads and many of nearly all of the current regime have the backing of Tehran.

My family, who live in Iraq, have been telling me of the terrible crimes that are being committed by the Iraqi government and have witnessed men, women and children being rounded up by the Police and being told to leave areas or face death.

Some have been terribly killed, raped and tortured as a result of the dictatorship that now exists in Baghdad and the same frustration of the indiscrimiate barbarity being witnessed as a result of the militias, is being felt by many Western soldiers aswell as the Iraqi people.

My sister, was telling me that many Western soldiers often say to her and other, that they think the Iraqi government is allowing the death squads to operate as a result of their failure to produce any real change that would benifit the Iraqi people as a whole.

My family and friends in Iraq, also tell me that those who have managed to either hide or escape from raids by the death squads have also heard them speaking in Farsi and not Arabic and when the squads come, they are usually reinforced and backed up by Iraqi police and the military.

I hope this helps you to understand the situation.

best,
ali

Tnx, Felicity, for saying it loud, true and simple...

2007-03-31T20:17:26.438-07:00

Tnx, Felicity, for saying it loud, true and simple.

For too long has the US/UK++ been allowed to talk of the splinters in other countries' image while ignoring the logs in their own.

Only the notion that US/UK++ represent "good" and others "bad" has made it possible for this hypocracy to prevail. (‘Hypocracy’ makes a good misspelling, indicating we’re ruled by hypocrisy. Or even ‘hypocrazy’: we’re living in hypocrazy).

Now it is abundantly clear that the greatest sinners against fair ethics in the world are exactly these western countries (mine included). Murderous inconsistencies of ethics abound in the behaviour of US/UK and countries allied with them.

Too sad and depressing how the states previously representing the humanistic tradition of ethics - in world perception and part reality at least - are now revealed as acting nothing of the kind. To hear western officials still speak as if from a high horse can only add insult to the grave injuries.

Pardon my language: We have become a whole culture of de facto demented psychopaths. I'm ashamed to be a western native. I'm ashamed to be me. I'm ashamed to live in comfort while my country supports the rivers of blood being poured to sustain the claims of legitimacy for that comfort.

The inequities of world-trade kill an average of 40.000 people from starvation every day, year in and out. That amounts to forty million every three years - equalling the total number of dead in WWII, in only three years. That's how bad we are, on an everyday basis. Then wars and the one thousand five hundred killed globally every day (500.000 annually) by small arms deviced - and mostly produced - by the West is in addition. Not a nice picture.

And now we’re off to Easter-vacation – to forget about the bad news for a while and enjoy the loot, in our oil-fuled economy that’s wrecking the world, but for the poorest first. So we don’t mind much: literally, we don’t use our mind about it. Hooray, we’re happy. Remote control killing is our greatest success.

No wonder we have this great tradition of celebrating Easter – a pagan tradition tuning in to and celebrating spring equinox, twisted into a celebration of torture and execution of a fellow human. No wonder we’re confused about right and wrong. We officially worship the cross, a torture-tool.

We’re all April fools today, from the hoaxes put over on us by our rulers.

Ole Ullern

I think that ( unfortunately )human beings behave ...

2007-03-30T23:14:26.015-07:00

I think that ( unfortunately )human beings behave like primates.
In other words : People do care for those who belong to their family, their tribe..,their creed..., their nationality.
British care for the lives of the British ( But do not care much for the lives of the ethiopians, by instance). Americans care for the lives of the americans ( but do not care much for the lives of the afghani). Shites care for the lives of Shiites...(But shooot the sunites in Iraq); Muslims in general care for the life of the muslims but are ready to blow up israelis....; And so on.