Tuesday, August 08, 2006

 

Complicity in the form of Silence

For Abeer Qassim al-Janabi

By Eugene Johnson

Hit a bucket of balls,
rape and murder a little girl
and murder her whole family,
barbeque some chicken wings.
All in a good days work
for "our boys" in the military.

Her name is
Abeer Qassim al-Janabi.
She was 14.

And these men in the U.S. military
raped her for sure:
former Pvt. Steven Green
Sgnt. Paul Cortez
Pvt. James Barker at least attempted.

Seven Green was the gunman
who murdered Abeer's father,
mother, and sister,
then raped Abeer while
Paul Cortez held her down...
Sergeant Cortez
afterall,
had already finished raping her
and Private James Barker
was trying to go for a ride
when gunshots came from the room
where Abeer's parents and sister
had once been breathing.
After raping
Abeer Qassim al-Janabi,
Steven Green then shot Abeer,
14-year-old girl,
repeatedly,
then they set her body on fire.

Support our troops...

My daughter
is with her mom
and I wonder when "our troops"
will want to rape her.
She is 11-years-old.
When are they going
to want to rape her?

"Our troops"
are trained
to behave this way.
"Nits make lice"
"donchya know"

When I stand in front of the recruiting center
at 1317 NE Broadway
every Tuesday,
none of those young men
ever talk about the behavior of their comrades
toward Abeer Qassim al-Janabi.
Do they even know her name?
They don't say anything
about behavior of their brothers in arms.
They remain silent.

The last memories of
Abeer Qassim al-Janabi
are of her family being murdered
by "our troops"
in the U.S. military.
Then being raped by
Private Steven Green,
the murderer,
then being murdered by him.

Do you really wonder
why "they hate us so much?"
Do you really believe
this is an unusual occurence?
I could give you long lines
of similar behavior
throughout U.S. history
and that is just what I know.
How many lifetimes
do you have
to sit and listen to just what I know?
Will you even remember the name
Abeer Qassim al-Janabi?





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