{"article":{"id":43804,"heading":"The Receiving End of","author":"CenterShift","created":"2003-03-30 18:47:19","modified":"2005-08-15 01:21:20","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:21:20","article":"

The Receiving End of \"Shock and Awe\"

(Images captured from Al-Jazeera this morning.)



Women crushed and filled with shrapnel,

A girl's body's torn asunder,

Babies with head wounds,

Children crying over the destruction

of their families,

Anxious parents rushing loved ones

to emergency rooms,

And not one American reporter in sight,

Not one reporter embedded

with the Iraqi people.



Note: When Iraq's fighters are reduced

to using stone-age tactics against

America's space-age army, the U.S.

accuses Iraq of using \"human shields\"

and of terrorism.

It is the U.S. forces who are

using \"human shields\" in Iraq.

After all, it was the U.S. who invaded

Iraq, and it created the dire situation

by surrounding and bombing Iraq's cities.

The U.S. presence in Iraq has forced the

people of Iraq into the crossfire.



When Iraq's fighters are reduced

to using stone-age tactics against

America's space-age army, the U.S.

accuses Iraq of using \"human shields\"

and of terrorism. Let's face it:

no U.S. invasion-- no 'Human Shields'.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","summary":"The Receiving End of "Shock and Awe": \r\nU.S. Government has placed Iraqi \r\ncivilians in harms way by invading \r\nIraq. No U.S. invasion-- no 'Human \r\nShields.' Why are there no American \r\nreporters embedded with the Iraqi people?","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2003\/03\/iraqdeath001z.gif","filesize":"114.7 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2003\/03\/43804.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2003\/03\/iraqdeath001z.gif"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}