This fucking war....

photo illustration by fourlegsgood

What's new in the never ending horror that is Iraq today? Let's see, Shiite leaders have suspended talks over forming a government,and the governor of Baghdad has announced a halt in cooperation with American authorities. A suicide bomber killed 40 and wounded 30 in Kasak, which is near that bastion of peace, Al Tafar.

And the shiites are really, really angry about Sunday's raid on a shiite compound which killed at least 16 people. Their mood can't have been improved by this photo, which ran on Iraqi television on Sunday. The photo shows bodies in what appears to be the prayer room of a Baghdad mosque.





No wonder they hate us.







A note about the illustration-- I was rereading Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Pocket Books, ©2000) this past weekend where King describes being a college student during the summer of 1969 when "happy hippies wore bell-bottom pants and tee-shirts that said things like "KILLING FOR PEACE IS LIKE FUCKING FOR CHASTITY."

"That sayings NEEDS to be on a protest sign," I said.

So, through the magic of photoshop, voilá! (The photo is my own) Hopefully King won't mind that I've borrowed his phrase to illustrate a point.

It makes no fucking sense to blow up a country and kill thousands of people in the name of peace. None. It was a ludicrous idea in 1969 and it's a worse fucking idea now.