Monrovia, Liberia. Africa. Africans. Not White. Perhaps Muslim, Perhaps Not. War. Dead people. Ignored by the 1600 Crew.
Even as the latest theme among the apologists for the Iraqi Conflict has been the discovery of the "mass graves", which proves that Saddam was a truly awful guy, makes the rounds through right-blogistan and Faux-News and all its wannabes, similar events are occuring in Liberia, but they just don't bury the bodies. In a bloody civil war where the bodies of the executed and combat casualties don't even get a burial, they just rot in the sun alongside the road.
The road from Clay Junction to Monrovia provided snapshots of Mr Taylor's Liberia. The bodies of young men and boys lay spread-eagled on the asphalt, face-down, face-up, their eyes pecked out by birds. Casually, a soldier sprayed a stinking corpse with bullets ... On the edge of Monrovia, Anthony Washington, 30, turned off the road into a displacement camp, carrying a bundle of palm sap and cassava roots, scavenged from the bush. "You gotta advocate for us, man, cause we're dying here, people dying here every day,"he said. "We got no food, no medication, we got no food, man."
The rebels launched their attack at the camp, looting its market, then fighting a gun battle with the army over the prostrate bodies of thousands of terrified refugees.
"Bullets hitting arms, bullets hitting legs, we were crawling around screaming," said Vanday Ibrahima, 37, who was there at the time. "God help us, we need some peace." ... Britain and France have set precedents for this, with Britain's successful intervention in its former colony Sierra Leone, and France in Ivory Coast. "America is the only country Liberians listen to. It's the only country Taylor fears," Ms Iro said. ... That is not welcome news to Washington. It sent about 100 navy Seals to protect its embassy in Monrovia last week, and this week evacuated all remaining non-essential embassy staff to a battleship sent from the Gulf.
But the US amabssador in Monrovia refused to comment on the misery outside his walls.
And here we are, perhaps able to influence the outcome of death and misery in a country which may listen to us. But, hey they have no oil, just a growing supply of dead bodies, and unless some strategic mineral or a WMD is discovered there shortly, giving us cause to "move in and pre-empt" the nations sovereignty, nothing is what will continue to happen. After all, the 1600 Crew would not want to hurt their standing with the readership of Southern Cracker...or whatever that rag that loves Smirky and Asscrack is called. It might cost them a vote. Or two.
