Iraqi Politicians Condemn US offensive

[cantstandbush]

Iraqi politicians condemn US offensive
Monday 07 November 2005, 4:05 Makka Time, 1:05 GMT

US forces have been conducting house-to-house searches

Iraqi politicians have condemned the latest US offensive on villages and towns close to the Syrian border calling it a "killing operation".


This was in Al Jazeera.

I wonder how many civilians we are killing in the name of weeding out terrorists?

[Cha]

1. We've killed 100,000 in Iraq

already according to some reports I've read.

This is the latest in a long line of US atrocities.

[Darranar]

4. 100,000 as of Oct. 2004, a year ago.

Oct. 2004 was nineteen months after the invasion, so over five thousand Iraqi civilians were killed each month in excess of the deaths before the invasion.

Since then, therefore, we have killed more than sixty-five thousand others, assuming those trends continued.

Indeed, the latest in a long line of US atrocities.

[occuserpens]

2. This is called political process?

Iraqi politicians condemn US offensive: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/78AACB8D-FDC2-409D-9E3A-E8034C8BA469.htm

Leader of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, Salih al-Mutlaq, has denounced the massive US military offensive - code-named "Operation Steel Curtain" - against the people of Husaiba, Karabla and al-Qaim, in western Iraq.

Al-Mutlaq, also a member of the committee that drafted the new constitution, accused the Americans and their Iraqi allies of mounting "a destructive and killing operation of secure cities and villages" on the "pretext that they hide and secure terrorists".

In Baghdad, Muhsin Abd al-Hamid, head of the largest Sunni Arab political party, condemned "all military operations directed against civilian targets" because they "lead to the killing of innocent people and the destruction of towns and cities".

[wookie294]

3. Great -- now we're at war with the Green Zone

LOL

[FloridaPat]

5. So why don't they throw the US out?

[damntexdem]

6. Well, just who do they think they are to do that? They act like ...

they're leaders of their country. Don't they know their proper roles as puppets? ;)

Remember, of course, that Saddam himself once knew his proper role as a U.S. puppet.

[funflower]

7. Any bets on whether we'll see this in the US-based media? NOT!