Hi Pollyanna; Re: "As for the looters, they were let run around for a couple of weeks, but they are being disarmed now."
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! LOL!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
More BS from the same guys who brought you the Iraqi WMD lies. Did you get it from Fox News, the company that announced the discovery of WMDs eight times?
Find me a link from a neutral source. I looked in the latest news on The Washington Post, and found only the usual collection of depressing stories:
Iraq Stabilization Impinges on Army Rotation, Rebuilding
Washington Post, June 6, 2003
The struggling campaign to stabilize postwar Iraq has frustrated U.S. Army plans to reduce troops there and begin replenishing a military force stretched exceedingly thin by war and peacekeeping commitments, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday.
Asked if he had ever seen the Army so stretched, the official said: "Not in my 31 years" of military service.
The assessment by the official, who insisted on anonymity during a briefing of reporters from several major newspapers, provided a glimpse of one of the major sources of pressure on the Bush administration to hasten efforts to improve security in Iraq and recruit troops from other countries who can substitute for U.S. forces.
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With sporadic attacks continuing on U.S. forces and a sense of insecurity still prevalent among Iraqis nationwide, plans to withdraw some U.S. troops were recently suspended. The 3rd Infantry Division, which had expected to head home after handing over responsibility for Baghdad's security to the 1st Armored Division last week, instead was told it would be staying and was given other missions to help secure western and northern Iraq.
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washingtonpost.com
Iraq Sunnis Seethe Over Loss of Prestige
AP, June 6, 2003
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Within moments, he said, U.S. forces unleashed a fusillade so fierce it decapitated Nour, 12, and Ghazal, 9. "There were no screams, no nothing. They died right away," said Khalaf, surrounded by neighbors who came to offer condolences.
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Confrontations like the May 28 shooting in Samarra, which the U.S. military confirmed took place, are aggravating resentment against Americans in the Sunni Muslim heartland, a swath along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers west and north of Baghdad.
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More than a dozen interviews with Sunni Muslims in Samarra, Ramadi and Fallujah suggest that coming days will be fraught with danger for U.S. forces.
The Americans say they are defending themselves against efforts to kill them and to foment resistance, and insist they are making great efforts to avoid unnecessary confrontations and understand the intricacies of the Iraqi culture.
But residents complain of what they call alarming behavior by U.S. troops. They accuse Americans of being trigger-happy, heavy-handed and disrespectful.
"Why can the U.S. Army come here, kill us, destroy our property and we are not allowed to kill them?" asked Yehia al-Motashari, an auto mechanic and son of a tribal leader in Samarra. "We don't plan to surrender our arms. With every passing day we have more guns."
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washingtonpost.com
-- Carl |
