Thousands of Fallujans Demonstrate

[Barrett808]

Ash-Sharq al-Awsat Thousands of Fallujans demonstrated on Saturday in front of the main entrance to the largely abandoned city. They demanded that US military forces leave their city and that basic services be restored so that they could return. One eyewitness reporter called in from the scene an estimate of 30,000 demonstrators.

Some of the placards announced that Fallujans refused to live under a military occupation. They presented a list of demands, which included the facilitation of their return to the city, speedy return of services, rebuilding of the devastated city, and monetary compensation to its inhabitants. They also protested the US military demand that returnees show identification papers. Many said that such papers got left behind in the city when they fled.

Children marched with placards reading "Where is my Father?" or "Where is my house, you supposed Liberators?"

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http://www.juancole.com/2005/01/thousands-of-fallujans-demonstrate-ash.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. any idiot

would know that if you go into a country to win "hearts and minds" the first thing you do is restore security, the second thing you do is restore the infrastructure, the third thing is you withdraw your military forces, putting security in the hands of civil authority. Of course, Shrub isn't 'any idiot', he's the Idiot in Chief.

[Benhurst]

2. Just how ungrateful can they get! Why can't they follow the example

of American liberals like Ed Schultz and Al Frankin by thanking the troops effusively for all they are doing?

[xultar]

6. You can't blame the troops.They are following orders from *, cheney,

rummy, and KKKarl
If we go in the route you suggest we as progressives and liberals are doomed.

The vast majority of the troops don't like what they are doing. They are humans like you and I.

[Benhurst]

8. My point: don't thank them for what they are doing. Bring them home. NT

[Union Thug]

3. Mission Accomplished! /eom

[JoFerret]

4. What an unmitigated disaster

...o Bushie, what troubles you have wrought.

[Quakerfriend]

5. This is just heartbreaking.

I think that it has been the military aim all along to create an uninhabitable place. Just sick.

I would like to drop * into the center of Fallujah, and let the Iraqis deal with him in what ever way they please.

[xultar]

7. Now that is a solution I can get behind. Let's drop Rummy, & Cheney

too.
oooo KKKarl Rove would be a great drop off too.

[quaoar]

9. Bush spin on this.....

....30,000 terrorists linked to al Qaeda march through Fallujah, demonstrating why we had to destroy their city.

When do we bounce the rubble?

[Liberal In Texas]

10. Freepers are going crazy

CODE PINK GIVES $600,000 TO THE 'OTHER SIDE' IN FALLUJAH (TREASON ALERT!)Text

...calling them traitors and they should be put in front of a firing squad, helping the people who are killing our troops, the usual BS.

A little research shows families of troops killed in Fallujuh are giving the $ to Fallujah refugees. The $ was not raised by Code Pink either.
http://codepink.utne.com/archives/000045.html

Shows just how they love to not let the facts get in the way of a good demonization.

[VegasWolf]

12. Freepers are the dimmest bulbs on the tree. Anyone can see that what

happened to those poor Fallujah civilians is a war crime
of enormous magnitude.

[TheFarseer]

11. Ha Ha Don't they know it's tsunami week?

Maybe even tsunami month. Also the election is over. Sorry guys, you're too late. Maybe if you demonstrate next month someone will care. (cynical mode off)

[leftchick]

13. I can't help but wonder what he thinks as he looks at...

USA freedom and democracy at work. I hope it is shame at what his country has done to these poor people. :(



US Marines from Lima Company patrol the devastated city of Fallujah, some 50 kilometers west of the capital Baghdad.(AFP/Hrvoje Polan)




Iraqi men stand over the graves of their families after burying them in a yard in the western city of Falluja, January 2, 2005. Lakes of sewage in the streets and the smell of corpses inside charred buildings is are one of the first things a person will notice while walking into the city of Falluja, about six weeks after the end of the U.S.-led offensive against the city. REUTERS/Akram Saleh

[velvet]

14. down but not out

Hats off to these people, who stand up in such terrible circumstances and demand justice.