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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:23 PM
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there is a video taken in Fallujah


at this site:

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/


scroll down and on left see this:

Video Report From Fallujah: This amateur video was shot on the first day of one of the biggest festivals in the Muslim year. But instead of buying new clothes for their children and visiting family and friends, the men of Falluja are digging graves. Watch it online now! 2-17

and on the right is this article:

Fallujah: the truth at last Doctor Salam Ismael took aid to Fallujah last month. This is his story of how the US murdered a city 2-17

here is some excerpts from the article:

IT WAS the smell that first hit me, a smell that is difficult to describe, and one that will never leave me. It was the smell of death. Hundreds of corpses were decomposing in the houses, gardens and streets of Fallujah. Bodies were rotting where they had fallen—bodies of men, women and children, many half-eaten by wild dogs.

A wave of hate had wiped out two-thirds of the town, destroying houses and mosques, schools and clinics. This was the terrible and frightening power of the US military assault.

The accounts I heard over the next few days will live with me forever. You may think you know what happened in Fallujah. But the truth is worse than you could possibly have imagined.

-snip-

I also found survivors of another family from the Jolan district. They told me that at the end of the second week of the siege the US troops swept through the Jolan. The Iraqi National Guard

used loudspeakers to call on people to get out of the houses carrying white flags, bringing all their belongings with them. They were ordered to gather outside near the Jamah al-Furkan mosque in the centre of town.

On 12 November Eyad Naji Latif and eight members of his family—one of them a six month old child—gathered their belongings and walked in single file, as instructed, to the mosque.

When they reached the main road outside the mosque they heard a shout, but they could not understand what was being shouted. Eyad told me it could have been “now” in English. Then the firing began.

US soldiers appeared on the roofs of surrounding houses and opened fire. Eyad’s father was shot in the heart and his mother in the chest.
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this sounds so much like what the nazi did in WWII it's making me shiver.

our troops have been turned into nazi.

(is the instruction manual hidden in the 'you have to kill somebody to win' games kids play)
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:32 PM
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1. What rabid animals so many of our troops have turned into, thanks to bushh
Edited on Thu Feb-17-05 01:35 PM by LynnTheDem
will hit home to many Americans if & when the troops ever make it back home & out of Iraq.

Already on the base here we're having huge problems with spouse beatings, drunk driving, rapes, murders, armed robberies, suicides.

You cannot do what many troops did/do in Iraq and come home and simply turn the viciousness and horror off. It doesn't work that way.

So far mostly only soldiers' families and other soldiers are suffering the brunt of the violance back here. But it will spread, and the longer troops spend in Iraq, the more tours they're sent on, the more the violance back here will spread to other Americans.

Soldier hubby said; There are troops in Iraq now that for the good of America you hope die in Iraq; you do not want them back here, not after what they've now become.

As the mother of one soldier said; "I gave you my son. You sent me back a murderer."
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:41 PM
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2. It is horrible
And how awful of the mother. :cry: All these men/women. :cry:
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:46 PM
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3. I think you mean "how awful FOR the mother".
NT
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DARE to HOPE Donating Member (552 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:55 PM
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4. I read Dr. Ismael's report a couple days ago...
...I have not slept since.

I lived for several years as an American child in postwar Europe. I have never forgotten the fear, the ghosts of what had been, the prison down the street that the Nazis used.

Now it is OUR children who have become the nazi soldiers, kicking in the doors, shooting anything that moves, and with terrible weapons. All my childhood nightmares coming back with a horrific twist....
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