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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Carragher who wrote (13660)	4/9/2004 6:24:56 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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. guardian.co.uk "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. ======== 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.

To: John Carragher who wrote (13660)	4/9/2004 10:15:38 PM
From: Chas.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

blood is thicker than water, I live a few miles from the largest Arab population outside of the Middle East, I am around Lebanese, Iraqi, Iranian, Syrian and Eqyptian folks all the time, daily...they talk the talk but they do not walk the walk because blood is thicker than water and homeys are homeys and family, Aunts, Uncles, Grandma and Grandpa are still back there so the ties are deep, the feelings are deep. America is just a place to make a lot of money for most of them, it is the land of honey, the big sugar mountain and the Americans are so stupid, and lazy and so trusting, it is so easy........I see it every day, I know...almost 100% of all the women and young girls wear the traditional robes and burkas, they wouldnt have it any other way..... about 5 years ago a mixed marriage couple,(it was in all the papers) Iraqi fellow and American girl had some marriage problems that couldnt be worked out...she was seeing another guy and got caught...in order for him to save face in the family and among his other male countrymen counterparts he beheaded her and then dismembered her for the fellows to see...it was expected. He got away to Iraq or Iran and they never have caught up to him as far as I know...just another day in paradise.... regards