Reply #15: reminder

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Those photos come from a house raid in Habbaniyah, June 21st, 2003. Of course they were looking for bad guys.

Techinically I can't remember which Operation that was part of. There was Operation Desert Scorpion, Sidewinder, Ivy Serpent, and Peninsula Strike, all ostensibly intended to put down the Ba'athists, Fedayeen, Hold-Outs, and Foreign Terrorists and whoseits once and for all, but curiously involving neighborhood sweeps, knocking down doors, dragging people off to Abu Ghraib for stupid reasons, if any, or just handing out friendship bracelets like you see in this photo.

The real motives? Vengence. A culture of fear, and the exploitation of terror and fear by the Chickenhawk Cabal. It's a manifestation of their abuses of authority and instruments of power. That's how it looks to me.