The following information was obtained from an unsourced blog ... perhaps it's just propaganda ... perhaps it's true ... and if it is, what does this say about the conduct of our troops and how they are treating Iraqi civilians? and what does it say about those who continue to support military operations in Iraq? ... are we helping these people or not?
source:
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000168.php#more
I asked if the family had requested that the Americans come remove the unexploded ordnance. Mr. Shakr, with a very troubled look told me, “We asked them the first time and they said ‘OK, we’ll come take care of it.’ But they never came. We asked them the second time and they told us they would not remove them until we gave them a resistance fighter. They told us, ‘If you won’t give us a resistance fighter, we are not coming to remove the bombs.’” He holds his hands in the air and said, “But we don’t know any resistance fighters!”
Also last winter I also reported on home demolitions in Samarra by the military. The consistent pattern then was that anytime an attack occurred against occupation forces, nearby homes/buildings/fields were then raided or destroyed by the military, along with complimentary electricity cuts for the villages and/or cities.
Mohammed, a 15 year-old secondary school student stands near his home explaining what he saw. “There is a grave of an old woman they bulldozed,” and then he points to the nearby road, “They destroyed our fences, and now there are wolves attacking our animals, they destroyed much of our farming equipment, and the worst is they cut our electricity.”
“I don’t know why I was arrested,” he explained of his journey through the military detention system for 10 months, which found him experiencing treatment like having mock executions, being bound and having his head covered for days on end, and being held at a camp near Basra in the scorching summer temperatures. “At that camp they hung a sign where we stated that said, The Zoo,” he explained. He claims that his home and fields were searched and no weapons were found. His ten month detention included witnessing sexual humiliation of prisoners, and regular beatings. “I watched black American soldiers put naked Iraqi women in a cell and then enter the cell,” he explains, “I heard the screams as they soldiers raped the women.”the Democratic Party continues to maintain that "internationalizing" the "war" in Iraq will lead to a positive result ... the Democratic Party refuses to call for withdrawal ... it's hard to see how bringing in more military with different colored uniforms will change anything described in the article ... isn't it ???
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