The Blood of the Martyr is the Seed of the Revolution: 3 Women Sentenced to Hang on March 3

LeiLani Dowell and Les Blough, Axis of Logic

News of 3 Iraqi women sentenced to be hanged on March 3 came as a shock even to seasoned monitors of U.S. atrocities in Iraq like myself. Intellectually, I have known for a long time the heartlessness and savagery of which the U.S. government is capable. One doesn't have to look far back in U.S. foreign policy to see it. Their recent history - their destruction of the cradle of our humanity, their slaughter of about a million Iraqi people since 2003 (add another million under the Bill Clinton sanctions of 1992-2000) - and their blunt-force oppression of human rights everywhere has taught me well. But somehow ... news of their plans to execute these 3 women ... women ... women who fought back ... I guess it somehow rekindled the fire within me. Where did Wassan Talib ... Zainab Fadhil and Liqa Muhammad find the courage to fight back? Where?...

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