U.S. raids in Saddam's hometown leave Iraqis angry

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16188632.htm

<snip>Ten-year-old Ahmed, herded with the rest of his family into his garden, shook visibly as he watched soldiers interrogate one man, whose head slammed onto the ground with a thud.

"I will become an Iraqi fighter and I will kill Americans," the boy said. He pointed at troops who charged into his home with rifles, sledgehammers and bolt-cutters hunting for anti-American guerrillas. "They are the enemy," he said.

An old, barefoot man was led from his house over shards of glass from a broken picture frame knocked off the wall. snip

During one of Tuesday's raids, a young girl cowered in a woman's lap pressing her hands over her ears to block out the soldiers' yells of "Get down, get down." Sitting cross-legged, an old woman dressed all in black, rocked back and forth, muttering to herself with her cheeks cupped in her hands.

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[opihimoimoi]

1. This bodes ill for our future. Force cannot over come hearts and minds

When will those assholes learn that?

[Robin Hood]

2. Yet somehow they know

that the majority of the iraqi people really want us there. How do they know that? Did Zogby run a poll there? I think it's all propaganda. Isn't it obvious that these people don't want us there?

How many more people will die for this arrogant oil grab?

[ninkasi]

3. Multiply that by hundreds

the people in this story have friends, and family, who will hear about this. Multiply this by hundreds, if not thousands of times, and the hatred and distrust we are sowing in Iraq will reap nothing but bloodshed for us.