Fallujah Residents Angry Over Destruction

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/angry_fallujah

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His anger against the Americans and Iraqi forces allied with them has only grown since his return — a worrisome sign for U.S. officials letting people back into Fallujah, a one-time insurgent stronghold where the population was generally believed to support the fighters.


"When I see Americans in Fallujah I feel as if I am seeing devils in front of me," he said.


On Dec. 23, the first people allowed into the city were residents of the western neighborhood of Andalus. The Iraqi government announced over the weekend that all the city's neighborhoods will be open for returnees this Friday. The government said so far some 60,000 people have returned to the city.


Few houses escaped damage from the intense American air raids late last year and the insurgent bombings and shootings that followed. Work teams have cleared rubble from the streets, but it is still tangled with downed power lines. Craters cut off access to side streets, and some buildings have walls or ceilings missing if they weren't simply destroyed.


There were suggestions before people began to return that they would have no idea of the devastation the campaign wrought. Some Marines south of the city reported people told them they thought Fallujah was practically unscathed.

[leftchick]

1. Guernica anyone?

The ending says it all....

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"When I came back the next day I found the house totally burnt although there were no weapons in it and the Americans had earlier put a blue X sign," he said.

Though he had no evidence, he immediately blamed the United States for killing and wounding civilians. He did not mention Iraq (news - web sites)'s insurgents.

"The Americans have destroyed our city," he said.

[LynnTheDem]

2. People of Fallujah opposed Saddam Hussein for 3 decades...and in 2 yrs

America destroyed everything they ever had.

Let's ask the people of Fallujah who's worse; America or Hussein.

[leftchick]

4. The US Military is in denial....

Deep shit denial....

~snip~

American officials have characterized their November battle as a fight to liberate Fallujah and have said the people returning have generally welcomed being free from the grip of the insurgents.


"Losing your home is a very emotionally distressing, no matter how the loss came about. All human beings will experience a roller coaster of feelings and undoubtedly look for someone to blame," Maj. M. Naoimi Hawkins, spokeswoman for the 4th Civil Affairs unit, wrote in an e-mail. "Many Iraqi residents have made it clear to me that they realize that foreign fighters brought about the destruction and are ultimately the ones to blame."

[LynnTheDem]

6. Total denial??? Or just total LYING.

My bet is the latter.


Well I guess he's telling the truth; FOREIGN FIGHTERS All of whom are wearing US military uniforms.

[tngledwebb]

9. Good call!

n/t

[leftchick]

10. I am betting a lot of people on the ground are in denial...

How the hell else can they justify the carnage they have brought these people? For sure the Brass is lying. I agree totally Lynn, the US is indeed the "foreign fighters" in this fucking war.

(btw... how do you make those big bold letters? I could use them lately around here! :) )

[LynnTheDem]

13. Justify? By lying themselves sick.

To do big & bold:

For bold lettering do this:

type < b > at the beginning of your wording and < / b > at the end (but with no spaces)

For big lettering do this:

type < font size = 5 > or 6 or any number up to 10 at the beginning and then type < / font > (with no spaces) at the end.

To do big AND bold do this:

< b > < font size = 5> and your wording and then < / b> < /font > with no spaces. :)

You can also do italics by typing < i > first and < /i > last.

Put em all together, even. :D

[DELUSIONAL]

15. That major is a lying sack of shit

He doesn't speak the language -- and he hears what he wants to hear from the translators.

After seeing photos of the "insurgents" and knowing that thousands of males of military age were not allowed to leave -- there is a very high probability that most of the people killed (and in some cases murdered) by the US Military were residents of Fallujah.

Bush is the one who is "ultimately the one to blame".

Bush is guilty of war crimes on a grand scale -- in this case he has probably undone his daddy. But since there are no public body counts from the first Gulf war -- it is hard to tell which of the bushies has the highest body count.

[Seldona]

3. Just wait for the deathsquads to hit the ground running.

Wait until we start rounding up nieborhoods where 'insurgents' hole up and 'detain' them, or outright kill them, to make an example.

We will really win their hearts and minds then.

Amazing how we are becoming what we said we were going to fight. And it is completely unecessary in the first place.

We were totally capable of taking care of Bin Laden and his few followers without enraging a majority of the planet. Or invading countries that had nothing to do with 9/11.

Then again that really has nothing to do with why we are in Iraq.

It all starts to make a sick sort of sense once one realizes that this is really about the neocon dream of asserting American power across the globe to ensure that no one ever rises to the level that they COULD become a threat.

Makes no difference if they are or not. We are the sole remaining superpower, and what we say goes in their minds.

[davhill]

5. We have liberated Iraqis

Liberated them from their homes, their posessions, their livelyhoods, and in some cases we have even liberated them from life itself.

[LynnTheDem]

8. In some 100,000+ cases.

And God only knows how many we liberated from their various limbs and eyes and assorted other body parts.

America better hope & pray there is NO JUST GOD; because if there is, the payback due to us will make 911 look like a fun day at the park.

[gratuitous]

16. Freedom's just another word

For nothing left to lose. Fallujah is free at last, free at last, thank Halliburton almighty it's free at last!

[durablend]

17. Just a practice run for what they have planned here

Liberate the Amerukin citizens from their homes, their money, posessions, jobs, and (eventually) their lives.

These people (*) have NO morals whatsoever

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Well, there we go again. Creating another wonderful recruiting

opportunity for Al Qaeda.

[ze_dscherman]

11. Read this report from The Guardian

City of ghosts

On November 8, the American army launched its biggest ever assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja, considered a stronghold for rebel fighters. The US said the raid had been a huge success, killing 1,200 insurgents. Most of the city's 300,000 residents, meanwhile, had fled for their lives. What really happened in the siege of Falluja? In a joint investigation for the Guardian and Channel 4 News, Iraqi doctor Ali Fadhil compiled the first independent reports from the devastated city, where he found scores of unburied corpses, rabid dogs - and a dangerously embittered population


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1387460,00.html

[leftchick]

12. Lovely: "Fuck Iraq and every Iraqi in it!" from the US Military!

This is an unbelievable article. Thank you for posting it. I am so ashamed to be an American....

~snip~

Fallujans are suspicious of outsiders, so I found it surprising when Nihida Kadhim, a housewife, beckoned me into her home. She had just arrived back in the city to check out her house; the government had told the people three days earlier that they should start going home. She called me into her living room. On her mirror she pointed to a message that had been written in her lipstick. She couldn't read English. It said: "Fuck Iraq and every Iraqi in it!"

"They are insulting me, aren't they?" she asked.

[teryang]

14. American soldiers- ambassadors to the world n/t

[no_to_war_economy]

23. also from the Guardian

" Despite the intense fight in Falluja, the insurgency has gathered pace across Iraq, particularly in the northern city of Mosul, once a model of peace and calm, and in Baghdad, where the deputy police chief was assassinated yesterday. "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1387467,00.html

[Just Me]

26. OMG!!! How horrible.

We destroyed an entire city!!! For what? To accomplish what? MORE REASONS to absolutely HATE the U.S.A.?

:cry: :argh:

[LevelB]

18. I guess this guy did not read his script

Wasn't he supposed to be throwing flowers?

Unbelievable.:eyes:

B.

[jmcgowanjm]

19. Rense is putting up Fallujah articles/latest

Yesterday, two more US soldiers were killed when a
bomb destroyed their Abrams tank in
Baghdad.

Try finding the above on the web.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/story.jsp?story=599630

Some Marines south of the city reported people told them
-this is a source?
-Who the fuck around Fallujah would
talk to a marine.

[leftchick]

20. It was on Yahoo yesterday....

then the story changed to a Bradley fighting vehicle. Can't have the murkins knowing the resistance can blow up tanks now!

[reprobate]

21. Destruction of Abrams tanks is indicative of this whole cluster f***k

They say this is the only military super power left in the world.

And yet our main battle tank is vulnerable to a single individual with a shoulder fired weapon. You have to wonder how it would do head to head against another nations armor.

Sorry, I keep forgetting that the purpose of the abrams is not to fight in wars. It's purpose is only to make profit for the military-industrial-congressional complex.

An old phrase from the 60s keeps coming to mind:

What would happen if they gave a war and nobody came?

[jmcgowanjm]

25. yes. The Neurobiology of Mass Delusion

Rationalization: to actively participate in the
deception of the mind.

The truth can only be pushed so far before rebellion occurs.
As in "to kill the messenger".

http://energybulletin.net/3948.html

Love your posts and pics,
James

[leftchick]

27. I love yours as well!

:)

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[leftchick]

24. Read this to get an idea. It isn't pretty....

City of ghosts

On November 8, the American army launched its biggest ever assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja, considered a stronghold for rebel fighters. The US said the raid had been a huge success, killing 1,200 insurgents. Most of the city's 300,000 residents, meanwhile, had fled for their lives. What really happened in the siege of Falluja? In a joint investigation for the Guardian and Channel 4 News, Iraqi doctor Ali Fadhil compiled the first independent reports from the devastated city, where he found scores of unburied corpses, rabid dogs - and a dangerously embittered population Watch an extract from the documentary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1387460,00.html