Justin Sirois's Blog, page 75
December 16, 2011
December 15, 2011
U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over - depleted (or slightly enriched) uranium lingers on
NYTimes
This only worries me. Today, I see the photos of people in Fallujah burning American flags, and I completely understand why. All the hope that Iraqis had in 2003, and there were a lot of people in Iraq with hope for their future -- the future of their country, their families, their businesses -- is gone. We swept in, bombed their infrastructure, disbanded their military and police force, let the looting go wild, committed war crimes, tortured people in prisons where...
This only worries me. Today, I see the photos of people in Fallujah burning American flags, and I completely understand why. All the hope that Iraqis had in 2003, and there were a lot of people in Iraq with hope for their future -- the future of their country, their families, their businesses -- is gone. We swept in, bombed their infrastructure, disbanded their military and police force, let the looting go wild, committed war crimes, tortured people in prisons where...
December 14, 2011
Reaching whole new Lowe's in America
I think I might do a reading from Falcons on the Floor outside of Lowe's while I'm in Florida over the holidays. 
Iraq photo of the day
Tales From Fallujah: Life In Iraq After Saddam by Lisa Hollandhttp://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16129969
December 13, 2011
Falcons on the Floor made it onto Nano Fiction's Holiday Survival Guide
with other great, indie writers Brandi Wells, Joseph Riippi, Glenn Shaheen, Jason Poland, Edward Mullany, Matthew Salesses, Matthew Savoca, and Kendra Grant Malone.http://nanofiction.org/2011/12/holiday-survival-list
Lowe's pulls their ads from the television show All American Muslim
Here's a bunch of dimwits leaving hate crime-ish mail on the Lowe's Facebook page. So much for all that "hearts and minds" work the military and everyday soldiers are doing over in Iraq and Afghanistan. If people keep buying into this type of hate, then you might as well just say the extremists won. Maybe I should do a few readings from Falcons outside Lowe's. 
Iraq photo of the day
Getty Images' most memorable photos from the Iraq warhttp://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/12/most-memorable-images/
December 12, 2011
Iraq photo of the day
FALLUJAH – When Amir Hussain and Awfa Abdullah got married in Fallujah in 2004, they could not think that their offspring will suffer from the weapons that shelled their city during two deadly US onslaughts in this year."It is our bad luck," Hussain told Reuters.
"Maybe because we got married in the wrong time and in the wrong place."
Waiting their first child, he was born in 2006 with a brain damage and died last year.
The second, a baby girl who was born in 2007, suffers from severe skin...
