Iraq's agony: 'Don't go out, they'll kill you'

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/29/africa/baghdad.php

BAGHDAD: The two men showed up in the afternoon to evict Suaada Saadoun's family. One was carrying a shiny black pistol.

Saadoun was a Sunni Arab living in a Shiite enclave of western Baghdad. A widowed mother of seven, she and her family had been chased out once before. This time, she called the American and Kurdish soldiers at a base less than a mile to the east.

The men tried driving away, but the soldiers had blocked the street. They handcuffed the men.

"If anything happens to us, they're the ones responsible," said Saadoun, 49, a burly, boisterous woman in a black robe and lavender-blue head scarf.

The Americans shoved the men into a Humvee. Neighbors clapped as if their home soccer team had just won a season title.

The next morning, on Wednesday, Saadoun was shot and killed while walking by a bakery in the local market.

After the police took the body away, all that remained was a pool of blood, a bullet casing and one-half of Saadoun's set of false teeth.

[William769]

1. Didn't just two days ago John McCain say

It's safe for people to walk the streets of Baghdad now? NOT!

[genie_weenie]

4. Why shouldn't Bush and McCain lie?

Lie lie lie lie lie Iraq Lie lie lie lie...

It works, their core supporters will never believe any news cast from Iraq or about Iraq. so there is a nice block of voters now all you need to add are voters who *think* Republicans won't raise their taxes and the block of voters who *think* Republicans are looking to safeguard their jobs from being outsourced and viola!! You have a McCain Presidency!

[leftchick]

2. just one horrific death out of millions

:cry:

[lazer47]

3. Under another name

when one class of people seek to rid themselves of another class of people it is known at the UN, and the World Court as Genocide