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An Iraqi voice on the situation in Iraq:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadA...le.asp?ID=16513
How the Left Betrayed My Country - Iraq
By Naseer Flayih Hasan
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| ... My first clue that this would not happen was a few weeks after Baghdad fell. I had befriended a French reporter who had begun to realize that the situation in Iraq was not how the international media or the so-called "peace camp" described it. I noticed, however, that whenever he tried to voice his doubts to colleagues, they argued that he was wrong. Soon afterwards, I met a Dutch woman on Mutinabi Street, where booksellers lay out their wares on Friday morning. I asked her how long she"d been in Iraq and, through a translator, she answered, "Three months." "So you were here during the war?" "Yes!" she said. "To see the crimes of the Americans!" I was stunned. After a moment, I replied, "What about the crimes of the regime? It killed millions of Iraqis. Do you know that if the regime was still in power, the conversation we"re having now would result in our torture or death?" Her face turned red and she angrily responded, "Soon will come the day that the Americans will do worse." She then went on to accuse me of not knowing what the true facts were in Iraq-and that she could see the situation better than me! She was not the only "humanitarian" who expressed such outrageous opinions. One afternoon, I was speaking to some members of the American anti-war group "Voices in the Wilderness." One of the group's members declared that the Iraqi Governing Council (then in power at the time) were 'traitors." I was shocked. Most of the Council were people whom we Iraqis knew had suffered and sacrificed in a long struggle against the regime. Some represented opposition parties who had lost ten of thousand of members in that struggle. Others came from families who had lost up to 30 loved ones to the Baathists.... |
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SOLDIER SENTENCED TO 6 MONTHS
An Army platoon sergeant who ordered his soldiers to throw Iraqis into the
Tigris River was sentenced Saturday to six months in military prison, but will
not be discharged.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/08/soldier....d.ap/index.html
COALITION FORCES BOMB HOUSE NEAR MOSUL
At least five people were killed when a coalition F-16 bombed the wrong target
south of Mosul, Iraq, the U.S. military said Saturday.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/09/...main/index.html
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POLL: AMERICANS DIVIDED OVER IRAQ INVASION
Americans are nearly evenly split over whether the United States erred in
sending troops to Iraq, with an increasing percentage saying they believe it
was a mistake, a national survey said Monday.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/17/iraq.poll/index.html
SOLDIER EXPLAINS REFUSAL TO RETURN TO IRAQ
A young girl clutching her arm blackened by burns, dogs feeding off bodies in
mass graves -- the images still haunt Sgt. Kevin Benderman 15 months after he
came home from Iraq.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/17/objecting...r.ap/index.html
KIDNAPPED ARCHBISHOP REPORTEDLY FREED IN IRAQ
A Catholic archbishop has been released one day after he was kidnapped in the
northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the Missionary Service News Agency reported
Tuesday.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/18/iraq/index.html
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Julia Roberts has a better chance of winning this war
Iraq will surrender its soul to America only when the US army has left
Ref. https://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,...1393459,00.html
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From the linked article above:
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| There is growing dissension and dismay in the US armed forces about their prospects of victory in Iraq. The yellow ribbons, lapel pins and yard signs expressing solidarity with the nation's soldiers are still conspicuous around army bases across America. But commanders and soldiers alike are conducting an increasingly anguished debate. There are four reasons for this. First, many service people are shocked by the incontrovertible evidence that the justifications offered by the Bush administration for invading Iraq - WMD and a link with international terrorism - were false. |
It is interesting to note that The Guardian, the newspaper that is quoted here, has, from the beginning, been one of the strongest critics in the world to the US involvement in Iraq (as well as Afghanistan). It is one of the biggest moral supporters of such notaries as Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat.
Now, after reading through the article, I don't see much support for the statements above. I see lots of statements such as: "Even General David Petraeus, the US airborne general charged with organising Iraq's new forces, is said to be increasingly despondent."
What is this? The General is said to be despondent? I see, we will now base an article on hearsay, and assert that all the military forces are convinced that we are losing.
He goes on to say that US cultural and economic forces will likely have a greater effect on Iraqi society than the US military. Well, "duh"! But, without the military having deposed the tyrant/dictator who was determined to keep his people in the dust, they wouldn't have had a chance to see these forces at work.
I read several military blogs on a somewhat regular basis. None of them indicate any of the malaise that the Guardian is reporting. All of them show a very high morale. The same is true of all but one of the Iraqi blogs of which I am aware.
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31 U.S. Marines killed today in chopper crash in west Iraq, military officials confirm.
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I cam across this today and wondered how US Citizens would take to Dyer's comment about Zarqawi and Bush speaking the same 'tune'?
Democracy - It's not God's gift
Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of the organisation that calls itself "al Qaeda in Iraq", says: "We have declared a fierce war on this evil principle of democracy."
By Gwynne Dyer
Zarqawi is the bogeyman that the United States Government blames for almost everything that has gone wrong in Iraq, but he does speak essentially the same language as President Bush.
Ref. https://207.44.245.159/article7830.htm
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Post War Iraq Politics Business Civil & History - Page 70
This election will change the world. But not in the way the Americans imagined
Robert Fisk in Baghdad
America has insisted on these elections - which will produce a largely Shia parliament representing Iraq's largest religious community - because they are supposed to provide an exit strategy for embattled US forces, but they seem set to change the geopolitical map of the Arab world in ways the Americans could never have imagined. For George Bush and Tony Blair this is the law of unintended consequences writ large.
Ref. https://207.44.245.159/article7908.htm
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