Planes dropped their "gifts" and never looked back.
The children were terrified under their beds
While visions of air raids danced through their heads.
The bombs were relentless until the first light,
when finally, finally, the planes flew out of sight--
Merry Christmas, Iraq, and to all a good night.
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Once again, the press neglected to report the news that most needed to be reported this Christmas:
Eyewitnesses described scores of civilians killed by ever increasing US airstrikes--airstrikes that fail to discriminate between the good, the bad and the innocent--but arrive just in time for the holidays.
Now wasn't that oh so Christian of us?
U.S. Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post
Military Confirms Surge in Airstrikes
By Bradley Graham
Washington Post
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AND TO MAKE MATTERS EVEN WORSE...
We seem to be training Iraqi soldiers not to secure their infant democracy, but, rather, to ensure a very bloody civil war:
"Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan."
Not quite according to plan, huh, BushCo?
Read the article here: Kurds in Iraqi Army Proclaim Loyalty to Militia
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