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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: John Carragher who wrote (13660)4/9/2004 6:24:56 PM
From: geode00Read Replies (1) of 81568
 
Bremmer closed down the newspaper and arrested the aide to al-Sadr. Myers admitted that they knew violence would errupt. Why, then, did they do it? Bremmer also forced the resignation of the Shiite Interior Minister saying that Shiites were overrepresented.

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"One of the strongest pro-American voices in Iraq's US-appointed governing council, Adnan Pachachi, condemned the operation in Falluja as "unacceptable and illegal" - a sign of Iraqi anger at the siege, which for some has become a symbol of resistance....

The heavy siege of the Falluja, a bastion of anti-US Sunni guerrillas, 35 miles west of Baghdad, has angered even pro-US Iraqi officials.

"These operations were a mass punishment for the people of Falluja," Mr Pachachi told Al-Arabiya TV. "It was not right to punish all the people of Falluja and we consider these operations by the Americans unacceptable and illegal."...

The seige of Falluja was prompted by the slaying of four US civilians in the city last week. Their burned bodies were then paraded through the streets by a cheering mob that hung two of them from a bridge.

The security firm that employed the four men, Blackwater USA, told the New York Times that they were lured into an ambush by members of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps.

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The Iraqi Civil Defense Corps? The ones that we're now arming with more lethal weaponry? The ones whose vehicles and arms are being used against our troops?

Isn't Pachachi on the short list of those who will get power 6/30?

This is getting stranger and stranger.
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