These words belong to the man who threw his shoe at Bush

[Kerry-Ann Howitt]

I've just read this on www.abovetopsecret.com, and wanted to share. It was in a post entitled "These words belong to the man who threw his shoe at Bush" (as it is here). I won't write anything at the end, because I think it speaks for itself.

My "Flower" to Bush, the occupier


"We used to be a nation in which the Arab would share with the Turkman and the Kurd and the Assyrian and the Sabean and the Yazid his daily bread. And the Shiite would pray with the Sunni in one line. And the Muslim would celebrate with the Christian the birthday of Christ, may peace be upon him. And despite the fact that we shared hunger under sanctions for more than 10 years, for more than a decade.

Our patience and our solidarity did not make us forget the oppression. Until we were invaded by the illusion of liberation that some had. (The occupation) divided one brother from another, one neighbor from another, and the son from his uncle. It turned our homes into never-ending funeral tents. And our graveyards spread into parks and roadsides. It is a plague. It is the occupation that is killing us, that is violating the houses of worship and the sanctity of our homes and that is throwing thousands daily into makeshift prisons.



I say to those who reproach me: Do you know how many broken homes that shoe that I threw had entered because of the occupation? How many times it had trodden over the blood of innocent victims? And how many times it had entered homes in which free Iraqi women and their sanctity had been violated? Maybe that shoe was the appropriate response when all values were violated.



And at the time that the Iraqi prime minister came out on satellite channels to say that he didn't sleep until he had checked in on my safety, and that I had found a bed and a blanket, even as he spoke I was being tortured with the most horrific methods: electric shocks, getting hit with cables, getting hit with metal rods, and all this in the backyard of the place where the press conference was held. And the conference was still going on and I could hear the voices of the people in it. And maybe they, too, could hear my screams and moans.

In the morning, I was left in the cold of winter, tied up after they soaked me in water at dawn. And I apologize for Mr. Maliki for keeping the truth from the people. I will speak later, giving names of the people who were involved in torturing me, and some of them were high-ranking officials in the government and in the army."


Please read all of what he has to say. He wasn't a terrorist. They threw him in a prison and tortured him for throwing the very shoe that tread over the blood of "collateral damage" and the rubble of decimated family homes at the man who sold our souls to the Devil.

[toeg]

It is very sad that the US has done this to his country. Not just his country, but many countries and not just through invasion, but also through coup d'etats, IMF and WB sanctions, and other politicoeconomic methods that strip the soul from a nation and beat it incessantly. Outwardly I laugh when I hear Americans proclaim that if the US leaves Iraq (militarily, I mean) with a pseudodemocratic government and only a little street violence, then it could be called a victory.

The sick, polluted minds of Americans can pluck a feather from the rotting corpse of a dead chicken and claim that the chicken is still alive and well because the feather "looks" fresh. The horrors visited upon Iraq and Afghanistan by the US and its allies know no mother nor father. It is common now in the US to completely ignore both wars. They are "inconvenient" and hold no good news, so like a bad TV show that has lost its core audience, the American population has turned to "reality shows" to assuage their minds and forget their deeds. Such sickness stinks.