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THE 'NEW' OLD IRAQ

Contributed by steeleyes on Monday, 9th August 2004 @ 03:36:54 AM in AEST
Topic: political

A person identified as a 14-year-old boy sits blindfolded and restrained. The boy purportedly was among the prisoners found when Oregon National Guardsmen responded June 29 to reports of what appeared to be prisoner abuse at the Ministry of the Interior in Baghdad, Iraq.

Oregon soldiers tried to stop prisoner abuse

PORTLAND — Oregon National Guard soldiers attempted to stop Iraqi jailers from abusing dozens of Iraqi prisoners, but they later were ordered to return the prisoners to their abusers and leave, according to a published report.

The soldiers spotted the abuse on June 29, Iraq’s first day as a sovereign nation since the U.S. invasion, The Oregonian, which had a reporter embedded with the Oregon guardsmen of the 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry, reported in today’s editions.

Capt. Jarrell Southall, an Oregon Guardsman who witnessed the day’s events, provided the newspaper with a written account of the incident. Other Guardsmen interviewed in Iraq echoed Southall’s account on the condition of anonymity.

The Associated Press
8 August 2004

http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=84766

-O/-

Back to business as usual?
How long might it take?
Meting out the same punishments
Just new spirits now to break

Bush wants us to believe
Iraq is born anew
But really the truth is
The changes are truly few

And in the long term?
From chaos comes control?
A hard man for a hard job
Now we lose our soul

Torture and abuse
Just like Abu Ghraib
Is this the brave new Iraq?
Is this what we tried to save?

Almost one thousand troops dead
And in the end for what?
So that Bush could stand and posture?
So that torturers could strut?

Twenty thousand innocents
Torn limb from limb
So that business as usual
Would make all hope to dim?

Chaos, hatred, death and strife
Bush brought this to Iraq
A “holy” misguided avenger
Now he gives it back

To the usual brutish crew
The usual brutish few
This is the new OLD Iraq
An illusion we see through

Copyright Â© steeleyes ... [ 2004-08-09 03:36:54]
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