WP: Iraqis Put Contempt For Troops On Display

[kskiska]

Saturday, June 12, 2004; Page A01

BAGHDAD, June 11 -- A pair of AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships thumped back and forth overhead, scouring residential streets for insurgents. Dun-colored Bradley Fighting Vehicles snorted and wheeled around, their tracks gouging holes in the tarmac. A dozen Humvees stood sentry, closing off the four-lane avenue to Iraqi cars, while nervous American soldiers with M-16 automatic rifles forbade local residents from approaching.

"Look at this," said Ghassan Abu Ahmed, raising his hand in a sweeping gesture toward the tableau of military might. "This is freedom? It is crazy."

A car bomb had just hit a U.S. military convoy passing down the main avenue Friday afternoon in southwest Baghdad's Sayediyeh neighborhood, one of the near-daily attacks on occupation troops across Iraq. By the standards of Iraqi violence over the past two months, it was not particularly bloody. The U.S. military reported no serious casualties. But for what it told about Iraqis' attitudes toward the 13-month-old U.S. occupation, the attack was devastating.

"What Saddam did was awful, but what the Americans are doing is worse," said Abu Ahmed, a laborer who lives with his wife and four sons in a government-built apartment house flanking the road. "They say they are bringing us freedom. But this is what they bring."

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[acmavm]

1. So Americans are worse than Saddam? I must say that i resent that

comparison.

It's not 'Americans', it's this corrupt administration. But that's the problem, the terrorists won't discriminate when it comes down to an attack. And they won't be able to get at the people responsible either. So if there's another attack, the blood will be on the hands of the bush* administration.

edit: corrected a word and reformatted a paragraph.

[buycitgo]

3. resent? that's funny

I bet they resent having family members blown up, or arrested, then takent away to be tortured, etc.

what face of America do you think they SEE, anyway?

wake up

why don't you go over there and tell them how many of your fellow Americans feel the way you do?

see how far that gets you

ask Nick Berg

they LOVE us now, without distinction

that's the problem....no more distinctions are being made in the entire Islamic world, and we're going to pay for that for generations, if not FOREVER

have fun

[mom cat]

4. Americans did not vote in the current administration, so you are

right so far. If Bush is elected this time, then the world will have the right to blame Americans. Americans do have access to more of the truth now and if they knowingly elect such a brutal tyrant, the rest of the world will start to blame all Americans - those who voted for brutal, imperialist tyranny as well as those who didn't fight hard enough against such cruelty. I think that we would all be in serious danger then and the blood will be on all of our hands.

[Algomas]

5. Good post soulsick

How about a T-shirt with a red,white and blue target on the back with the phrase "bring it on" underneath?

[mom cat]

6. Welcome to the fray Algomas! You should go into the T-shirt business.

Sorry to get back to you so late. I am just recovering from a DU binge. Watch out. This site is addictive and requires copious amounts of stiff coffee.

[Disturbed]

2. Freedom? No only Bushit

I am predicting a full scale Iraqi Uprising incl. the Kurds sometime in July.

[dbt]

7. Damn! Where are the FLOWERS???

We're supposed to be greeted as "Liberators" by the grateful Iraqis. Next thing, you'll be telling me this was NOT a cakewalk after all.

Shit O Goodness, what if the pResident was LYING about those WMDs?

:wow:
dbt

[struggle4progress]

8. kick

:kick: