With healthcare in Iraq deteriorating "to a level not seen since the 1950s," the U.N. warns that a shortage of safe water risks an outbreak of cholera this summer, and the BBC reports "horror stories" from Iraqi doctors who have fled to other countries.'Betrayed' is how George Packer sums up the treatment of Iraqis who worked with the U.S. for years but who now get no help in their search for asylum because it would send a message "that it's game over" in Iraq.
Just too depressing. Let's change the subject.
Woody Harrelson's father died.
Actor Woody Harrelson’s father, Charles Harrelson, died of a heart attack in the Supermax federal prison where he was serving two life sentences for the murder of a federal judge in Texas, officials said Wednesday.[...]
The actor was just 7 when his father was first sent to prison, for murdering a Texas businessman. He was in college when his father was convicted of the judge’s assassination.
Harrelson's attorney in the case with the businessman was Percy Foreman, attorney for Jack Ruby and James Earl Ray.
The judge he was convicted of murdering was about to sit judgment on a mobster/drug smuggler, Jimmy Chagra, who claims to have hired Harrelson, a "freelance hitman."
But wait. There's more.
Charles Harrelson, shortly after his arrest for the murder of Judge Wood, admitted his involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, stating that he was the shooter on the infamous Grassy Knoll. He later retracted that statement and would say no more about it.
Before his arrest for the Wood murder, the elder Harrelson bragged about taking part in the JFK murder. Although he later retracted the claim, Chagra's brother has said at trial that Harrelson was hired based on his alleged participation in the JFK assassination. Moreover, a reporter named Chuck Cook has said that Harrelson once promised revelations about "November 1963" if he ever got out of prison.
Stick with me. I'll keep you swimming in mysterious waters, off that road to hell we've been paving.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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