“Yeah, well that stuff’s way over my head,” he said. stuck his teenage tongue out all the way down to the end of his chin. To be fair to the correspondent, even though he was “embedded” he did sort of weakly suggest that so far there was no real evidence that linked the Iraqi government to the September 11, 2001, attacks. “I wanna get in there and get my nose dirty,” Private A.J. On March 21 – the day after American and British troops began their illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq – an “embedded” CNN correspondent interviewed an American soldier. A child who only ever wanted to play with his older brother’s marbles. On the steel torsos of their missiles, adolescent American soldiers scrawled colorful messages in childish handwriting: For Saddam, from the Fat Boy Posse.Ī building went down. How many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words?Īnd now the bombs have fallen, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilization. Transcript of talk by Arundhati Roy, United For Peace and Justice teach-in, Washington, DC. In the context of recent events, the word “cowardly” is most probably an understatement. Contained in our old archives (2001-2004), this article by Arundati Roy was first published by GR on June 3, 2014.
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