Saturday, September 20, 2008

The surge

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1953066020080919

The tainted sway of the chosen few brought into full view of reality
by satellite images they cannot deny!
There was no need for the surge
Nor for the extra waste of lives and money!
It served one purpose only
To fill the coffers of the war machine's pocket further
And to keep you buying the lie that the Iraq War was actually accomplishing something

Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday.
The images support the view of international refugee organizations and Iraq experts that a major population shift was a key factor in the decline in sectarian violence, particularly in the Iraqi capital, the epicenter of the bloodletting in which hundreds of thousands were killed.
Minority Sunni Arabs were driven out