On biding farewell to Bush

Depart in the company of disgrace:

The blood of a peaceful people on your hands

Will always haunt your sight.

All the young ones lost

In Baghdad´s seas of blood

Will remain like a tattoo of disgrace on your forehead

That you can never erase.

In Gaza and Galilee all the tombstones

Are loaded with explosive rage,

Cursing your ancestors.

What remains of the multitude of death

In Baghdad, I ask.

Nothing for you remains

Apart from a miserable end

Among the ruins.

As destruction envelopes Gaza,

Black nights are your only witness.

Depart, then, in the company of disgrace,

With no one regretting your departure.

***

Depart in the company of disgrace:

Look at the silence of the mosques,

And the pleading from the pulpits to the high heavens,

With the ghosts of destruction surrounding them.

Look at Baghdad mourning its people

With death moving from house to house.

Now you are departing from Baghdad,

Leaving your dead soldiers behind

In disgrace -- and what disgrace.

Apologising will not do now;

Apologies will not do.

To whom should you apologise?

To the land, to the roads?

To the living, to the dead?

To ancient cities, or to those that are still young?

To whom should you apologise?

To historical processions, or to all the sad lands,

To the shores, or to the wasteland?

[...]

Depart in the company of disgrace,

With your ugly face,

A face engraved

On tombstones,

And on those who inhabit graves,

On Gaza´s remains.

Destruction is a black vessel,

Blasting its way across crossroads and bridges.

Look at the children wavering

In the tumultuous dark nights,

A deep rage on their faces

Like a seething volcano.

Your ugly face is marked out

Because of the evil you wrought with your fake witnesses.

Nothing remains of Baghdad,

But bullets in corpses in the streets,

The shadow of death roaming the streets,

The sadness of the mosques, and the pleading of the pulpits,

Bemoaning the dumbness of prayers

In a time of heresy and debauchery.

***

Depart in the company of disgrace:

It is futile now

To hope for conscience to awake,

Or to show some public regret.

Your hands are soaked in rivers of blood.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/acid.attacks/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

By Atia Abawi
CNN

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Shivering in pain and calling for her mother, Shamsia´s hands shake uncontrollably, her eyes swollen shut and her skin peeling from terrible acid burns.

Shamsia and Atifa remain determined to get their education despite the attacks.

The 19-year-old was heading to school along with her 16-year-old sister, Atifa, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It was a warm November morning last year and their only anxiety was being late for class.

"We saw two men up ahead staring at us. One was standing off and the other one was on their motorcycle. I wanted to go but there was a black object in his hand and he took it out," Atifa says.

The girls thought it was a water pistol.

"He grabbed my arm and asked, ´Will you be going to school anymore?´ He then threw acid on my sister and threw acid on me," Shamsia says.

It´s not the first time girls in Afghanistan have been targeted for attending school. The Taliban have been responsible for dozens of attacks on girls´ schools and female teachers, but even they condemned this attack.

Educated women must be seen as a major threat to attract this sort of violence....... despicable

Forget about crawling. A spider discovered in the Sahara Desert moves by doing a series of hand springs across the sand -- and travels surprisingly fast. Bionics experts think the method could be used for future Mars explorer vehicles.

There is a video of spider on the page. Not youtube.

 Ummmm.......eeewwwwwwwwwwwww

 and nobody cares for them.

brainless tami wants american and british troops to withdraw so that these girls could be handed over to taliban rapists. does he realize that afghanistan is a hell? i guess he doesnt. all he cares is to tease tc ladies. to spew hatred on the west (without which he wouldnt be doing what he is doing).

why dont islamic leaders (who dont rest in propaganda about how peaceful, wonderful and beautiful the islam is) never issue fatwa on osama ben laden or other terrorists but instead they issue fatwas on people like salman rushdie or ayan hirsi?

is it because osama and other terrorists fullfil mohammeds commandments?

Quoting lessluv

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/acid.attacks/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

By Atia Abawi
CNN

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Shivering in pain and calling for her mother, Shamsia´s hands shake uncontrollably, her eyes swollen shut and her skin peeling from terrible acid burns.

Shamsia and Atifa remain determined to get their education despite the attacks.

The 19-year-old was heading to school along with her 16-year-old sister, Atifa, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It was a warm November morning last year and their only anxiety was being late for class.

"We saw two men up ahead staring at us. One was standing off and the other one was on their motorcycle. I wanted to go but there was a black object in his hand and he took it out," Atifa says.

The girls thought it was a water pistol.

"He grabbed my arm and asked, ´Will you be going to school anymore?´ He then threw acid on my sister and threw acid on me," Shamsia says.

 

It´s not the first time girls in Afghanistan have been targeted for attending school. The Taliban have been responsible for dozens of attacks on girls´ schools and female teachers, but even they condemned this attack.

 

 

 

 

Educated women must be seen as a major threat to attract this sort of violence....... despicable

 According to their belief Allah will punish them if they did something wrong (and I refuse to believe it isn´t wrong!). I can´t wait for that moment to come asap!!

 you have no idea what you ve written, trudy. yes they (females) will be punished by allah and will be sent to hell. because according to allah women are less intelligent therefore they dont need to be educated. do you think talibs dont know what they are doing? they are confident they are doing the correct thing - because they are the real muslims living according to the 7th century culture and practising islam in a pure way, except the kinds of weapon they use now (made by evil kafirs) and the acid.

 Sorry femme, if I was not very well understandable (good excuse: English is not my native language   ), but of course I meant with ´they´ not these girls/women but those morons who used acid. I feel the urge to go back to medieval punihments like beheading, quarter, wheeling etc. Would these guys understand that?

A Queen´s Guardsman was caught on camera losing his cool after being mocked by a tourist.

The soldier snapped after Colombian student Nick Ibarra marched up and down alongside him outside St James´s Palace, laughing.

...

Guards outside Royal palaces are supposed to ignore all distractions and stay at their posts unless there is a threat to a member of the Royal family.

...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090123/tuk-bearskin-with-a-sore-head-dba1618.html

 Could have been worse he could have used his rifle on him..  It reminds me of our American baseball teams.  When the fans get frustrated at times they tend to throw things at the players.  The players are not permitted to throw anything back, but on a occassion they do and they suffer a hefty fine.  I actually don´t blame the players....

 your english is as bed as mine.