No one can wear a mask for very long

The caption supplied with this photo is very revealing: "An injured Iraqi policeman shields his face to keep from being identified as he arrives at a hospital for treatment in Baghdad April 25, 2006. Four policemen were wounded when a car bomb exploded in central Baghdad near Yarmouk Hospital, police said." as is this: "U.S. officials say the al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been focusing on bombing and shooting Iraqi security forces, who are charged with eventually taking over security and enabling American troops to head home." The man in the photo is a policeman, I don't know whether he's Sunni, Shia, Christian, and in fact that's not important. What is important is that if he's a policeman he's very poor. You have to be poor and desparate to join the police. The police are widely viewed as collaborators with an ineffective puppet regime. They're widely regarded as traitors to Iraq, and God help them they know it. This unfortunate man dare not show his face lest he and more importantly his family be identified and targetted and all the "US officials" can do is parrot the same old nonsense for home consumption and get up to their old tricks to get their detested henchmen such as Chalabi and Allawi into positions of power. It's called failure, miserable abject, stupid, arrogant, failure. To quote Seneca: Even if we prevail, we but conquer monsters. What cause have we to esteem ourselves because we are not quite so bad as the very worst? (Seneca: Quaestiones Naturales) The US and its policies and puppets are the problem not the solution. As Seneca also said: "No one can wear a mask for very long." Leave. markfromireland