Fallujah the safest place in Iraq, says US

[Tinoire]

Fallujah the safest place in Iraq, says US
(Filed: 19/02/2005)

In pictures: Fight for Fallujah

There is a phrase American officers have started using to describe the battered streets of Fallujah. They are calling it the safest place in Iraq.


Children studying in Fallujah

Four months after the US military swept through the city in the biggest urban offensive since the Vietnam war, the insurgents who once controlled the city and used it as a springboard for violence elsewhere have gone. Attacks on American or Iraqi security forces are few.

Roughly a fifth of the population, about 50,000 people, have returned to see if their houses were destroyed in the fighting.

They are obliged to wait for hours at American checkpoints to be searched and frustrations are as high as the expectations that the US military will rebuild their shattered city as effectively as they levelled large parts of it.

(snip)

The destruction left the city without power and water for weeks, a ghost town of rotting corpses and sewage-filled streets. Services have returned only sporadically.

"Basically, we emptied out the city and let the people back in one by one," said Major Wade Weems, who commands one of two marine reconstruction teams. "We've purified the town of every insurgent element."

(snip)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/19/wirq19.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/02/19/ixportal.html

[Nitrogenica]

1. That's how they can fix everything. Killing on a massive scale.

[saigon68]

27. A GREAT MEAL IN FALLUJAH (Graphic Post)



IT IS FIT FOR ANIMALS HUNGRY DOGS DEVOUR CORPSES




A Dog Lunching on a The Head of an Iraqi Corpse





Burnt bodies, the legs of which, were devoured by Dogs.

What a Feast in Fallujah

[Blue to the bone]

2. Safe eh?

Ya think Bushie, Rummy, and crew would care to sip coffee at a sidewalk cafe?

I think not.

[Rose Siding]

3. Yikes

"We've purified the town"

Those school children are sitting on rubble, aren't they?

[exploited]

30. Well, the purification hasn't fully kicked in yet

It will take a while for depleted uranium to fully irradiate the population.

The children still have ample time to enjoy childhood playing in the dust and rubble before they begin the serious task of terrorist training. By that time the purification will be well advanced and the 'insurgent element' will have defeated themselves.

Mission accomplished! Whoops :crazy: that statement was a bit premature... like I said before, it will take a while yet.

[The Sheik]

4. If Fallujah is safe then Iraq must be burnt to the ground.

[Aristus]

5. They had to destroy the city in order to save it.

Everything old is new again. :eyes:

[leveymg]

6. When we were kids and wanted to hide from the bullies, the graveyard

was the only place we felt safe.

Wasn't there a huge battle in the cemetery in Falluja? Isn't it much bigger today?

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[Blue to the bone]

11. You were saying BlueStateDem???

Boy, that didn't last long.

[Judi Lynn]

21. What a shame. Hope DU'ers can overcome this tragic loss!

[mmonk]

8. Maybe removing 4/5th's of the population

had something to do with it.

[expatriot]

12. circa Sept. 1945: Nagasaki, Hiroshima quietest place in Japan, says U.S.

[chlamor]

13. The town has been "purified"

Western man has rid the village of evil. And the children can sleep tight knowing their protectors will keep them safe.

And then there is the Iraqi girl,hands soaked in her dead father's blood, whose little brother does not yet understand that his childhood has just come to an end. Fearing for their lives, US soldiers killed the parents in the front seat of the family car. Demons will likely haunt their nights. Stuff happens. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, bless their souls, will sleep well tonight. 



Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[proudbluestater]

14. Sick MoFos.

The "insurgents" were not hanging around for the bombing campaign. They hit the trail as soon as the word got out they were coming for them. All that was left to kill was the innocents. Gunned down in their beds, on the streets, in the hospitals. Left rotting in the streets for the abandoned dogs to dine on.

Now the citizens who survived are let back in one by one, to a scene of utter devastation. In their own country, they are forced to prove to the Americans that they belong in their own city.

[lebkuchen]

19. agreed

fascist-like sick.

[Judi Lynn]

22. If only the people responsible for this nightmare will be exposed

with nowhere to hide, and no one to defend them. No one should be able to call up hell upon others, to be delivered by others while he/she sits hidden behind miles of security and human shields.

Any crook apparently can get his faction to buy him into power, and conduct his filthy business from the highest office in our country. Isn't that odd? What in this system is worthy of our allegiance?

[Matilda]

15. Is this the height of cynicism, or what?

Perhaps it's just sheer stupidity.

[NYC]

16. Purified the town.

That's quite a statement.

[kiraboo]

17. Nowhere for insurgents to hide.

The town has been levelled.

[VegasWolf]

18. We Built this City on Rock and Roll! n/t

[anarchy1999]

25. Simply not appropriate! We did not, and this song deserves more

respect. Heaven help you if the originators ever get one hold on you.

"we built this city". You are so wrong! And so out of line.

[saigon68]

29. The post meant the young soldiers

Like in Michael Moore's movie--the Liberators were getting fired up on heavy metal so they could go off and grease a few "Rag-Heads"

That's how I took it

It has nothing to do with starship or grace slick or whoever.

[sacxtra]

20. The Spin News Headline Decryptor say's"

"Tweek0rs in USA say that Scorched Earth Policy works GREAT!"

;o)

[DoYouEverWonder]

23. Purified?

Purified is not the word I think I would use. A fucking god damn mess is more like it.

[leftchick]

26. thanks for the photo DYEW!

That says is all. The USA are war criminals.

[saigon68]

28. Reminds me of THIS PHOTO

"Unpleasantness in Warsaw"

The Warsaw Ghetto 1943 as the Jews and other sub-humanoid types were hunted down and shipped off to Treblinka to Cleanse the area and given refreshing Delousing showers.

[anarchy1999]

24. I have never hurt so much in all my life and I am 47 years old.

I knew this was going to happen to this suburb the day in April of 2003. I looked to my husband and told him they would level this town. It was all over that day. The day they fired into the crowd that were protesting, just asking in a peaceful way for our "troops" to leave the school.

I'm so sorry for what we have allowed to happen. I live in Texas, I can only imagine what if it had happened in Richardson? A town/suburb of Dallas, of 240,000+ just simply wiped out? My heart breaks every day.

Please Forgive us. I'm so sorry.