Iraqis Riot Over No Power, Water, Jobs

You won't hear about it from main stream media.

If it surfaces - which it won't - Rice will give it the devil's spin by calling those who were shot in Iraq as insurgents.

But they weren't.

They were simply fed up.

Residents of a peaceful town, protesting that they still have no power, water or jobs, were shot and killed.

Yet can you blame them for becoming irate? We get bent out of shape if the cable goes for five minutes.

But for expressing their disgust - not with bombs or guns, but with a protest - they were shot and several killed.

This is the "free Iraq" Bush yaps about all the time.

It's a lie.

You aren't free when you can't protest without being shot.

We learned that at Kent State. But we still had courts to rule it was wrong.

Iraqis have no justice system left.

Their justice system is fearful soldiers with guns ready to mow down anything that moves - against them. Forget you if you are a citizen. Someone can shoot you in the head and take your car. And it happens.

Some freedom we've given them.

But, of course, it was never about them anyway.