Onslaught Infuriates Iraqis; "extermination of a population"; Sunnis quit

[LynnTheDem]

“What is going on is the extermination of a population by this operation,”

BAGHDAD, November 9 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) –The massive assault on Fallujah by thousands of US-led troops has drawn fury among most Iraqis, scholars and even among the ranks of the US-backed interim government itself whose Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has given the go-ahead for the onslaught on Fallujah.

Iraq's official Sunni Muslim political party threatened to quit the interim government unless the full-scale military assault – dubbed Operation Phantom Fury -- on Fallujah is halted, according to a spokesman Tuesday, November 9.


Shiites Condemn


Iraqi Shiites also condemn the assault on Fallujah

Condemning the Fallujah onslaught was not just limited to Iraqi Sunnis. Shiites also weighed in. A spokesman for firebrand Shiite scholar Moqtada Al-Sadr slammed the US-led assault on Fallujah, appealing to Iraqi soldiers to abandon “the troops of American occupation”.

“Let us condemn the invasion of Fallujah and ask our sons in the national guard and police force not to become instruments of the occupation forces,” Sheikh Abdel Hadi Darraji told AFP.

http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2004-11/09/article01.shtml

And the SunniParty has now withdrawn from Iraq's interim government.

bushCartel just continue to make everything very much WORSE;

A major Sunni political party has quit the interim Iraqi government and revoked its single minister from the Cabinet in protest over the U.S. assault on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

The Iraqi Islamic Party wields significant influence over the country's Sunni community and its withdrawal from the government will likely be a blow to Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137991,00.html

[UL_Approved]

1. Damn

This sound like something out of a documentary of NAZI Germany. I'm finally beginning to wonder if we will have war on our soil over the Iraqi conflict. I mean official war from other countries, not just massive riots within.

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Thanks for this

Have you read this

" Colonel Michael Shupp ordered his troops to shoot Iraqis attempting to surrender" https://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/nov2004/iraq-n09.shtml

Marine commander Major General John Sattler dehumanised Fallujah’s defenders as “mugs, thugs, murderers and intimidators”. Colonel Michael Shupp ordered his troops to shoot Iraqis attempting to surrender, “because of the threat of suicide bombers”. Army Colonel Pete Newell declared: “We’re going to start at one end of the city and we’re not going to stop until we get to the other. If there’s anybody left when that happens, we’re going to turn around and we’re going to go back and finish it.”

Marine Colonel Gary Bradl made the most chilling call for mass murder, couching it as Christian fundamentalist duty. He lectured his troops: “The enemy has got a face. He’s called Satan. He’s in Fallujah and we’re going to destroy him.”

The battle now underway is being directly compared by marine officers with the 1968 battle for Hue city in Vietnam. The comparison may prove to be accurate. In the course of 26 days of combat, over 600 US and allied troops were killed and 3,164 wounded, killing an estimated 5,000 Vietnamese fighters in the city. More than 10,000 houses were destroyed and 40 percent of the city reduced to rubble.

[DELUSIONAL]

3. So they aren't letting men of military age to leave

so they can provide target practice for the troops?

This is really a message to the rest of the Iraqis -- and it is assumed that the surviving population will surrender to "democracy". What will probably happen is that more resistance fighters will join the resistance movement in Iraq.

Heck -- what would we do if one of our major cities was flatted by invaders?

How will the International community get this mad man bushie under control? What can the world leaders do?

There is no god --

[LibertyorDeath]

6. Well I'm sure the Iranians are on the phone to China & Russia

doing everything they can to secure some Nukes.

" How will the International community get this mad man bushie under control?"

They can start putting major economic pressure on the USA

They can do what Russia did recently and instruct their Central bank to stop using American $ as a reserve currency & use Euros instead.
They can sell their Oil for Euros instead of dollars.
Invest in Europe instead of the US
Stop buying Bonds
Give multi billion $ contracts to non US companies.

[tsuki]

10. Russia is not the problem.

If China decides to peg to the Euro, and dumps dollar, bend over and kiss your ass good=bye.

[tsuki]

4. Why are the Sunnis

quitting? Is this a signal that they are setting aside religious differences?

[LynnTheDem]

7. No. They're quitting the interim government in protest to Fallujah.

Which will mean a HUGE problem for Allawi.

And to the US.

[tsuki]

11. But Fallujuah is a shi'ite site. Not a Sunni.

[opiate69]

12. I think they're basically saying..

"Shia, Sunni.. we're all Iraqis first and foremost."

[bowens43]

5. I am so ashmaed of this country and the people

who helped to make this atrocity possible. We are the terrorists. We are the bad guys in this war. We are the evil doers.

[LynnTheDem]

8. Yes we are. We're the invaders. We're the terrorists.

We're the bad guys.

And the entire world agrees.

Americans shouldn't travel outside the USA over the next few decades.

[NorthernSpy]

9. this Allawi is quite the quisling

How many people would under any circumstances be willing to collaborate with a foreign military in an attack on their own countrymen?

:wow:

Just kinda blows me away.


:shrug: