Death Hits Mr. Rumsfeld's Neighborhoods

[donsu]

Guerrillas in the Midst

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0331/mondo1.php

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In response to the continued killing of Yankee soldiers, U.S. commanders are staging raids on whole neighborhoods—killing those thought to be guerrillas, rounding up hundreds of others, ransacking homes. Last week, the American military kidnapped the wife and child of an Iraqi general and held them as ransom until the man turned himself in. On Sunday, a man got out of his car to tell American troops searching an area that he was not involved. They shot him.

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Consider the story of little Mohammad al-Kubaisi, as Amnesty International described it last week. On June 26, Mohammad was carrying the family bedding up to the roof, where they slept each night. As he climbed, Mohammad saw American soldiers searching nearby houses. He stopped to watch. Across the street, an American soldier spotted the boy and raised his gun. An Iraqi standing near the soldier said something about "that baby." But the soldier said, "No baby," and shot the boy.

When his mother heard Mohammad had been hit, she raced home and saw that he was still alive and scooped him up, but American soldiers searching the house "kicked her aside," offering no medical treatment. Two neighbors rushed the boy to the hospital. But the road was blocked by an American tank, and when one of the neighbors tried to explain to an interpreter what was going on, the soldiers "handcuffed them behind their back and threw them face down on the ground." After 15 minutes, the Iraqis were allowed to get up and told to go home because the curfew had begun. It was too late for little Mohammad. He had died.

So goes the battle for the hearts and minds of Iraq.
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genocide - where are the lawyers?

[Jacobin]

1. Gee, kinda sounds like

Saddam's regime.......

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Sounds like we have been learning

public relations tactics from Israel.

[BeFree]

3. End the Iraq attack

US soldiers have been over there for too long. They are becoming death squads. Having seen the worst of humanity and being active participants in these crimes, the soldiers, with absolute power are becoming absolutely corrupt.

Get them they hell outta there now.

[Mari333]

4. A Mother BEGS for the release of her son

winning hearts and minds. Vietnam redux, Ive seen this movie before.






Baghdad 01 August: An Iraqi mother and her child plead with a U.S. soldier for the release of her son detained following a bazooka attack on U.S. forces in the area. A new generation of Americans is now asking "what was Vietnam like?" Like this.
www.truthout.com

[aquart]

5. It's NOT genocide. It is murder.

Only a complete ass would call this genocide.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

6. Then call me a complete ass.

-They're attempting to destroy a country's entire way of life.
-They're attempting to discredit an ancient religion.
-They're indiscriminately executing innocent women, children, and old men.
-They're killing entire families within their own homes, then posting the pictures so the entire world can gaze upon their handiwork.

They're commiting attempted genocide. So says this ass.

[donsu]

8. genocide IS murder

"The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group."

they spent how many yrs. under embargo with people dying daily.

they used DU in the first war and people sicken and die daily, plus it is passed on to the newly born.

they have spread land mines, cluster bombs everywhere that are maiming and killing people daily.

they have left the Iraqi hospitals to fend for themselves.

etc. etc.

genocide

[Darranar]

7. Sounds like Vietnam...

That is not good. Our country's in trouble.