y'know "Lazy Sunday" aka The Chronic of Narnia, by SNL's lovely Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell..and how it generated tons of copycat skits..
US Soldiers have made a music video "Lazy Ramadi" ..in case you haven't seen it yet..
Ramadi is this place, if you are curious.
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Juat a reminder of the world our neighbours to the North are living in..
Iraq has descended into ethnic cleansing and probable civil war...women are being kidnapped to have their heads shaved if they don't wear a hijab, little boys are not allowed to wear shorts, people wearing jeans are attacked, the biggest industry booming in Iraq is the 'death industry' and if you aren't in the mood to read anymore then just click here, here and here...and if you have a very strong stomach here are tons of other photos collected over the span of the war.
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As of today, over 38 thousand civilians have been killed...Numbers that do Not include the maimed, injured and orphaned...Or the over 100,000 the Lancet said died as a result of the effects of war...and do Not include illness due to deterioration of services...It really takes talent to make a place worse off than when Saddam the butcher was in power...Is there a prize for something like that?.. just so everyone can remember it forever.
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Except that:
"Media coverage of the Iraq War has generally portrayed the current quagmire as the result of an American failure to achieve a set of otherwise admirable goals: ... its inability to halt and reverse the destructive forces within Iraqi society. "...
..."This rather comfortable portrait of the U.S. as a bumbling, even thoroughly incompetent giant overwhelmed by unexpected forces tearing Iraqi society apart is strikingly inaccurate:" continue
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A show that follows the daily lives of those treating the wounded in an army Er in Baghdad.
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"empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief….The truth about war comes out, but usually too late." Chris hedges
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Operation Iraqi Freedom indeed..
Remember 2003?
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Remember the other mission accomplished? The one in Afghanistan?
well, 2006, for them, looks like this:
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War is hell..
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