Iraqi Womans Speech

Veterans Against the War


Iraq womans speech at a rally




Wanna undrestand? How a thousand times over isn't enough? 30 more years of ripping skin. Decades of choked pain that drains the colour from the flesh that torments the mind and eats through the nerves. Do you wanna understand? How it feels when your mother is raped with bullets and your fathers every cell locked in steel. Do you? Huh? Do you? How every dream for peace and return is slapped with the reality of a branded burn. How every morning prayer is split into seventy-seven consecutive funerals in Meymenah. But not before every corpse is dragged on the back of a pick up truck to the governor of Kandahar. Because bunker buster bombs beheaded the orphans in Nangarhar. Because the drill of rocket attacks launched from Bagram left a permanent drum in Ariana's bleeding ear...and she can't fall asleep at night without the lull of a Tomcats drone. She can't make it in the day if here cries arent met with roadside roar. You wanna know? Do you? That even the wind has a color in Afghanistan ,the color of soot-covered rose...Because the earth has no stomach to house casualties of war.
YES WE WILL LOVE YOU EVEN WHEN 1600-pound bombs are deployed to break our backs. We will love you even when you insult us by desecrating our dead. We will love you....
We will LOVE. My tax dollaor funded Green,Blue,Brown,Hazel Foreign Eyed OCCUPYING, Khakhi Camo INVADING. Extraterritorial, out your element Gung Ho war mongering Bible Muttering, Afgan Blood on Your Hands . US/NATO led and Lost soldier. We will love you....Because LOVE, NOT HATRED, IS THE I-REPRESSIBLE SPRING WHICH OUTLASTS OCCUPATION..
Huh, do you wanna understand? Do you? Mister and Mrs Dispatcher? "We are...Living, Breathing Dead bodies."
No War Machine's pre-calculated executions will carpet bomb us into submission. The US and NATO War of Liberation is no more liberated than our dead. Is no more liberated than our last breath.......

Afghans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War.