Rebuilding Fallujah a big task for Iraqi leaders

[ckramer]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - According to Iraq’s government, people like Ismail Ibrahim should be glad Fallujah is all but rid of the insurgents accused of turning the city into a terrorist base and using its civilians as human shields.

But in a Baghdad school where Ibrahim and about 200 displaced Fallujans have been living since the latest fighting drove them out, the talk is of vendetta - not against the insurgents but against the Americans and the Iraqi government.

“I feel hatred. I hurt. This is my city and it has been destroyed,” Ibrahim said, sitting on a thin mattress on the floor of a room he shares with his wife, seven children and another family.

“The people of Fallujah are people of revenge. If they don’t get their revenge now, they will next year or even after 50 years. But they will get it.”

AP story

My Comment: Now is Baghdad the next city to be destroyed?

[greenman3610]

1. Ungrateful Bastards!

[acmavm]

2. Talk of revenge from people who have seen their city and mosques

destroyed. Seeing children, old people, women, defenseless citizens lying dead in the street.

Who'd have thunk it?

[peacebird]

3. i thought rebuilding Fallujah was the USA's problem

after all - we sure as hell broke it....