When are the Americans going to stop acting on their bad intelligence? Just as their garbage intelligence led them to bomb a wedding party in their last foray against imaginary “foreign fighters”, so have they now killed over 20 Iraqis by dropping huge bombs on a neighborhood in Fallujah and, as usual, failed to accomplish anything but killing more Iraqis, women and children included.
A senior officer of the U.S.-backed Fallujah Brigade on Sunday disputed U.S. claims that an American airstrike had hit a safehouse of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s network.
The Health Ministry said at least 16 people were killed in the attack Saturday; witnesses put the number of dead at least 20, including women and children.
Col. Mohammed Awad said members of the Fallujah Brigade had investigated the site and “affirmed to us that the inhabitants of the houses were ordinary families including women, children and elders.”
“There was no sign that foreigners have lived in the house,” Awad said.
Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, coalition deputy operations chief, told reporters Saturday that multiple intelligence sources reported that the house was used by the al-Zarqawi network, which U.S. officials believe operates in Fallujah.
Even if they were able to take out “Zarqawi” in the midst of this carnage, what gives them the right to slaughter indiscriminately all these people? Every one of these dead Iraqis had a name, a family, people who loved them. How many new resistance fighters were created in this stupid strike? It isn’t just Fallujans who will now take up arms, either, it will be Iraqis from across the country who are outraged and furious over this indiscriminate slaughter.
Apart from the immoral aspect of the indiscriminate killing of Iraqis, another reason that this bombing is hideously stupid is that it once again fortifies the perception that the American occupation of Iraq parallels the hated Israeli occupation of Palestine. This is an excellent reason to avoid any IDF-like tactics in Iraq, though there is little hope that the heavily Likudnik-influenced Bush administration neocons running the show in Iraq will ever realize or be honest enough to admit that their aping of Israeli tactics has been a major factor in inspiring and sustaining the Iraqi rebellion.
I suppose at least viciously racist neocon ideologues like Bill O’Reilly are happy, along with the bloodthirsty hard-core Republican Bushbots like these. It is quite clear that the reason the American neocon occupation of Iraq resembles the Israeli occupation is because the people running them see themselves as engaged in the same battle against the same “enemy” – never mind the pretense of “Iraqi liberation”. The enemy in their minds is “the arabs” and their profound contempt for the Arab world and the religon of Islam is illustrated in both their actions and their rhetoric.
A few typical comments from the link above:
I remain convinced we need to make a Carthegenian example of Fallujah: bring in a couple of full divisions and place a really tight cordon sanitaire around the place, give the women and children (including males under 15) 48 hours to get out, flatten the place with bombs and artillery, kill any men found in the rubble alive, cover the entire place with pig’s blood, and then salt the earth. And get lots of TV footage of it for the media. Add footage of the aircrews preparing for nuclear missions to Mecca and Medina. Let the liberals whine, the arab world will get the very clear message we mean business. (Ed. – emphasis mine)
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Anybody who personally knows and is in the presence of such as al-Zarqawi, is complicit and is not innocent, though by comparison they may be less culpable. Israel’s tactic seems to work well… terrorist leaders are being targeted, and it makes no difference where they may be, when their number is up, you don’t want to be around them… ergo, since no one can tell when their number may be up, no one should be hanging around… ever… kinda like a stink bomb.
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OK, creative Freepers front and center.How can we come up with our own realistic (faked of course, well maybe) pics and videos of Americans pulling off similiar celebrations whenever some raghead Muslime perp bites the big one. I am sure someone can come up with the appropiate scenes.
Then we can go to every Muslime site and outlet to post links to our little party passing out Krispy Kremes and Pepsi as we gyrate the lyrics of “Proud To Be An American”, “Walking on the Fighting Side Of Me”, and of course that Toby classic of, “put a boot up your ass”, “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue”
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Remember 911 ! How many American women were killed? There wasn’t any sympathy from the Muslims over that.
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“…including at least three women and five children — were taken for immediate burial, in accordance with Islamic custom, while hospitals reported at least two more dead.”Yeah? Prove it! Usually, these liars can’t wait to display the bloodied bodies of their women and children so that they can weep, cry out for vengeance against the US and the Jooos while getting loads of air time on Al Jazeera TV. I think they LIE.
Even if there is a chance of some women and children being killed in the cross-fire, I say go for it, especially if there’s a chance to nail Zarqawi. (sic) These 7th Century savages don’t think twice before they kidnap and behead infidels or murder women and children in cars, pizza parlors, malls, etc.. The terrorist supporters’ cowardly, give-in, left-wing, bleeding heart comrades can oppose these tactics all they want, while they conveniently ignore and/or excuse the barbarism of the terrorist. This is war. It’s us or them...
OK, enough already. I think these quotes amply prove my point and serve to illustrate why the invasion of Iraq is a monumental failure in every way. Not only will none of the admitted or un-admitted (security for Israel, for example) goals be realized but the future consequences of unleashing the worst of the West on the Middle East will be catastrophic. It will take decades to correct the horrible damage these people have wreaked on their “enemies” – Muslims and Arabs everywhere.