[lit-ideas] Re: House of Horrors
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:56:41 -0500
This is exactly what I meant.
> [Original Message]
> From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 11/18/2005 8:48:20 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: House of Horrors
>
> It's called money and power. It's called getting even. It's called
> getting rid of potential enemies.
> The new government is setting up a police state with the blessing of the
> Americans. The Americans, remember, didn't mind that Saddam was a thug,
> they only minded that he was no longer willing to be their thug. This
> whole thing has been about putting in their thug, so everyone can go
> home rich.
>
> But your question about why the Iraqis are torturing their own suggests
> a bit of blindness. The "Iraqis" aren't one big happy family. No
> country is. It only seems so when they're far away and labeled with a
> single word. Look at American on American violence in your cities.
> Look at what happened in New Orleans. If the US were invaded, the same
> sort of thing would occur, for exactly the same reasons. Look back to
> your War of Independence. Those cute names you learned in school --
> tarring and feathering and riding the rails -- that was torture -- that
> was terrorism. American on American torture. Because money and power
> were at stake.
> Ursula
> P.S., Julie, I haven't forgotten the fried cheese cake recipe I promised
> you. I've just misplaced it...
>
> JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > This is today's post from Riverbend, the gal in Baghdad. I don't
> > understand what the Iraqis are doing, why this is going on... but the
> > line re. crying "fire" instead of "rape" in NY, equating to crying
> > "terrorist cell" in Iraq, is, well....... interesting. If anyone
> > cares to enlighten me re. why the Iraqis are torturing their own, I
> > would certainly be interested.
> >
> > Julie Krueger
> >
>
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