Where The Pieces Fall

Rotting In A Bog

Forgetting We Were Soldiers

Four Thousand For What?

Psucho Haiku by JHM

From AOL News:

A roadside bomb in Baghdad killed four U.S. soldiers Sunday night, pushing the death toll to 4,000.

That number pales compared with those of other lengthy U.S. wars, but it is much higher than many Americans, including Bush, ever expected after the swift U.S. invasion of Iraq five years ago.

Bush proclaimed the end of major combat operations in Iraq in May 2003. Almost all of the U.S. deaths there have happened since then.

“One day people will look back at this moment in history and say, ‘Thank God there were courageous people willing to serve, because they laid the foundations for peace for generations to come,’” Bush said after a State Department briefing about long-term diplomacy efforts.

“I have vowed in the past, and I will vow so long as I’m president, to make sure that those lives were not lost in vain — that, in fact, there is an outcome that will merit the sacrifice,” Bush said.

The news of 4,000 dead in Iraq came the week after the war rolled into its sixth year, dominating most of Bush’s presidency. Almost 30,000 U.S. service members have been wounded in the war.

Photo By JHM

Click to listen to the track:

dulce-venganza.mp3
Produced by Javier Hernandez-Miyares and Roberto Poveda

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With his fools gold stacked up all around him
From a killing in the market on the war
The children left king midas there, as they found him
In his counting house where nothing counts but more

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Embrace Hope Those Of You That Fight For It

While Wearing Your Beard
I Licked The Wound Of Eden
As My Heart Was Shaved

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Photo by JHM

Ranbir Kaleka Will be showing this month at the Bose/Pacia Gallery in Chelsea NYC. The opening is thursday night.

From the press release:

Ranbir Kaleka’s work has been described as “creating a seemingly living tableau on a canvas and screen.” Kaleka’s new work continues this project of producing art in a third, liminal space between painting and video, which is not as much a hybrid as a transmutation. The first part of Kaleka’s 2008 exhibition at Bose Pacia New York includes three installations comprised of video projections onto painted canvases. The second installment, commencing in September 2008, will include a large multi-media painting installation entitled Reading Man.

Visit Ranbirs’ Website

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