Iraqis Cheers Their Liberators
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El Tejon
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What!
You mean they don't hate us for liberating them from a brutal regime that killed tortured, and raped them in the hundreds of thousands?
According to the euroweenies and the anti-americans over here, we're the worst thing since Hitler. Maybe someone should explain that to the Iraqis so they can start hating us too.
You mean they don't hate us for liberating them from a brutal regime that killed tortured, and raped them in the hundreds of thousands?
According to the euroweenies and the anti-americans over here, we're the worst thing since Hitler. Maybe someone should explain that to the Iraqis so they can start hating us too.
Chris Rhines
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Give them time.
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You shouldn't demean witches that way!
U.S. Marines Rip Down Saddam Portraits
We need to see more of this being shown on the toob.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_conquered_town_2&printer=1
U.S. Marines Rip Down Saddam Portraits
Fri Mar 21, 9:41 AM ET
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press Writer
SAFWAN, Iraq - U.S. Marines hauled down giant street portraits of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in a screeching pop of metal and bolts Friday, telling nervous residents of this southern Iraqi town that "Saddam is done."
Milling crowds of men and boys watched as the Marines attached ropes on the front of their Jeeps to one portrait and then backed up, peeling the Iraqi leader's black-and-white metal image off a frame. Some locals briefly joined Maj. David "Bull" Gurfein in a new cheer.
"Iraqis! Iraqis! Iraqis!" Gurfein yelled, pumping his fist in the air.
"We wanted to send a message that Saddam is done," said Gurfein, a New York native in the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. "People are scared to show a lot of emotion. That's why we wanted to show them this time we're here, and Saddam is done."
The Marines arrived in Safwan, just across the Kuwait border, after Cobra attack helicopters, attack jets, tanks, 155 mm howitzers and sharpshooters cleared the way along Route 80, the main road into Iraq (news - web sites).
Safwan, 375 miles south of Baghdad, is a poor, dirty, wrecked town pocked by shrapnel from the last Gulf war (news - web sites). Iraqi forces in the area sporadically fired mortars and guns for hours Thursday and Friday. Most townspeople hid, although residents brought forth a wounded little girl, her palm bleeding after the new fighting. Another man said his wife was shot in the leg by the Americans.
A few men and boys ventured out, putting makeshift white flags on their pickup trucks or waving white T-shirts out truck windows.
"Americans very good," Ali Khemy said. "Iraq wants to be free."
Some chanted, "Ameriki! Ameriki!"
Many others in the starving town just patted their stomachs and raised their hands, begging for food.
A man identifying himself only as Abdullah welcomed the arrival of the U.S. troops: "Saddam Hussein is no good. Saddam Hussein a butcher."
An old woman shrouded in black — one of the very few women outside — knelt toward the feet of Americans, embracing an American woman. A younger man with her pulled her away, giving her a warning sign by sliding his finger across his throat.
In 1991, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died after prematurely celebrating what they believed was their liberation from Saddam after the Gulf War. Some even pulled down a few pictures of Saddam then — only to be killed by Iraqi forces.
Gurfein playfully traded pats with a disabled man and turned down a dinner invitation from townspeople.
"Friend, friend," he told them in Arabic learned in the first Gulf War.
"We stopped in Kuwait that time," he said. "We were all ready to come up there then, and we never did."
The townspeople seemed grateful this time.
"No Saddam Hussein!" one young man in headscarf told Gurfein. "Bush!"
We need to see more of this being shown on the toob.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_conquered_town_2&printer=1
U.S. Marines Rip Down Saddam Portraits
Fri Mar 21, 9:41 AM ET
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press Writer
SAFWAN, Iraq - U.S. Marines hauled down giant street portraits of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in a screeching pop of metal and bolts Friday, telling nervous residents of this southern Iraqi town that "Saddam is done."
Milling crowds of men and boys watched as the Marines attached ropes on the front of their Jeeps to one portrait and then backed up, peeling the Iraqi leader's black-and-white metal image off a frame. Some locals briefly joined Maj. David "Bull" Gurfein in a new cheer.
"Iraqis! Iraqis! Iraqis!" Gurfein yelled, pumping his fist in the air.
"We wanted to send a message that Saddam is done," said Gurfein, a New York native in the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. "People are scared to show a lot of emotion. That's why we wanted to show them this time we're here, and Saddam is done."
The Marines arrived in Safwan, just across the Kuwait border, after Cobra attack helicopters, attack jets, tanks, 155 mm howitzers and sharpshooters cleared the way along Route 80, the main road into Iraq (news - web sites).
Safwan, 375 miles south of Baghdad, is a poor, dirty, wrecked town pocked by shrapnel from the last Gulf war (news - web sites). Iraqi forces in the area sporadically fired mortars and guns for hours Thursday and Friday. Most townspeople hid, although residents brought forth a wounded little girl, her palm bleeding after the new fighting. Another man said his wife was shot in the leg by the Americans.
A few men and boys ventured out, putting makeshift white flags on their pickup trucks or waving white T-shirts out truck windows.
"Americans very good," Ali Khemy said. "Iraq wants to be free."
Some chanted, "Ameriki! Ameriki!"
Many others in the starving town just patted their stomachs and raised their hands, begging for food.
A man identifying himself only as Abdullah welcomed the arrival of the U.S. troops: "Saddam Hussein is no good. Saddam Hussein a butcher."
An old woman shrouded in black — one of the very few women outside — knelt toward the feet of Americans, embracing an American woman. A younger man with her pulled her away, giving her a warning sign by sliding his finger across his throat.
In 1991, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died after prematurely celebrating what they believed was their liberation from Saddam after the Gulf War. Some even pulled down a few pictures of Saddam then — only to be killed by Iraqi forces.
Gurfein playfully traded pats with a disabled man and turned down a dinner invitation from townspeople.
"Friend, friend," he told them in Arabic learned in the first Gulf War.
"We stopped in Kuwait that time," he said. "We were all ready to come up there then, and we never did."
The townspeople seemed grateful this time.
"No Saddam Hussein!" one young man in headscarf told Gurfein. "Bush!"
El Tejon
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"Ameriki"?
Who taught these people Russian?
Who taught these people Russian?
TheLastBoyScout
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heheheh I sent this article and a few others of a similar nature to one of my classmates who is insisting that Bush is as bad as Hitler etc...
Used the subject header PROOF OF US WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ to grab his attention and make sure it gets read.
Used the subject header PROOF OF US WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ to grab his attention and make sure it gets read.
BigG- I had a revelation in a class about the topic of Machiavelli. The teacher asked us: "Do you really think if you dream up the ultimate utopian society that they will pat you on the back and instantly love you? No, they will sell you into slavery like that famous Greek philosopher we all know about. Utopias are great, but remember, utopia translates to 'no place'." Let's just say that his lecture turned me into more of a realist.
ACP230
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I saw a shot of an American soldier tearing down a wall poster of Saddam. While the face was still recognizable an old Iraqi in a turban went up and started whacking Saddam's likeness across the nose with his shoe.
Peter Jennings didn't remark on that, but he should have. In Arabic countries showing someone the sole of your shoe is a grave insult. The old gent was putting Saddam below his shoes!
Peter Jennings didn't remark on that, but he should have. In Arabic countries showing someone the sole of your shoe is a grave insult. The old gent was putting Saddam below his shoes!
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