Baghdad has become the capital of the unknowable. After the car bombing of the Jordanian Embassy, a small crowd of young men stormed the smoldering wreckage, darting among the scattered debris and body parts, to rip down posters of Jordan’s King Abdullah II and chant “Kill all the Jordanians.”
WHY? NO ONE dared to interview them in that ugly mood, or to point out the obvious to the brainless, that the dead were only Iraqis, mostly guards and passersby. What sense does any of this make?
Exactly what happened here? No one seemed to know, and the troops were too busy shooting to talk. Witnesses say two American soldiers were wounded in their vehicle, but that’s not confirmed. Later CENTCOM will issue its usual terse press release, a few lines to say however many soldiers were shot or killed, with hardly any detail. The release on this one isn’t out yet, but the night before, CENTCOM said, two soldiers from the First Armored were killed in a firefight when they were ambushed somewhere in Baghdad. Where? By whom? Did they get away (as they usually do)? Was it provoked or an accident?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/949735.asp?0cl=c1Rod Nordland do you mind if you're fired and someone from the DU can take your position? I'm sure one of us could do a much better job than you!
1. As other sources said it was looting. Which we can see happened more than 100,000 times so far when the opportunity arose for the Iraqis. You do know that don't you Rod?
2. Jordon is a puppet regime of the U.S.'s and has been helping the U.S. so obviously the Iraqis view Jordan as an enemy.
3. Just maybe ALL Iraqis don't want the U.S. in their country. Except the ones who are being awarded contracts by Bush.
4. Maybe this was meant as a message that no Iraqis should help the Invaders. Including the guards.
5. You call it a mystery coming out of CENCOM? I call it lies. Why doesn't a well trained professional as yourself demand to know what's happening? Demand to know what type of wounded we have? No legs, no arms, blind, deaf...? Or are you afraid of losing your job so you follow behind the Bush Adm. licking up their feces?
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