Al-Jazeerah: Substituting Bombs for Policy

Substituting Bombs for Policy: “Al Jazeera is reporting that at least 20 people, including children have been killed in a US bombing raid on Falluja. Two houses were destroyed by missiles in a residential area of Jabal.

One local said that bombing was so powerful that “bodies were scattered and thrown away about 50 meters from the place of the explosion”

"But at the same time, when you look at the massive amount of violence that America is perpetrating in Iraq, I don’t know that I’m in a position to tell Iraqis that you must fight a pristine, non-violent war…. I just feel that that resistance in Iraq is our battle too and we have to support it." Arundhati Roy

The US military has defended the raids by saying that they were targeting “safe houses” for the elusive terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi; the fictional creation of the US War Dept that justifies the continued aggression against the people of Falluja.

The question of how many children were killed in the attack is still a matter of conjecture since "the bodies are torn to pieces".

What is not in doubt, however, is that innocent civilians were intentionally killed in America’s ongoing terrorist war in Iraq. That much is certain, and cannot be disguised by the feeble excuses provided by the regional command.

Falluja, of course, is still being punished for humiliating the US military in its failed attempt to lay siege to the city in April. After a three week conflict the Marines withdrew leaving the city of 800,000 with a modicum of “liberation” from the occupying army.

Regrettably, there is a steep price to pay for “defiance” as the random bombings illustrate."

By Mike Whitney
Al-Jazeerah, September 6, 2004