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US Holding 200 Iraqi Troops Who Mutinied -Comrades
Reuters ^ | April 16, 2004 | Khaled Yacoub Oweis

Posted on 04/16/2004 2:19:43 PM PDT by Eurotwit

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1 posted on 04/16/2004 2:19:49 PM PDT by Eurotwit
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To: Eurotwit
First of all, the USA and all allies need to learn what Islam does to the psyche of Muslims, and take that into accout. Muslims are truly a "brainwashed" people.
2 posted on 04/16/2004 2:23:19 PM PDT by tessalu
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To: Eurotwit
what do you do with them ?
3 posted on 04/16/2004 2:23:36 PM PDT by traumer
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"v"

Yea, right. Seems they had no problem doing it before they were liberated. Once we're gone they'll be right back at it.

4 posted on 04/16/2004 2:26:51 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: traumer
what do you do with them ?

How about shoot first and ask questions later? That would be a start! That is how you treat cowards.

5 posted on 04/16/2004 2:26:53 PM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Eurotwit
How could an Iraqi fight an Iraqi like this?

Such questions never occurred to my two uncles who fought other Cubans at the Bay of Pigs.

If the entire future Iraqi Army has such an attitude, any two bit Iraqi thug that can muster up 1,000 armed fighters can take over Iraq without a fight.

These men were either cowards or Baathist sympathizers.

6 posted on 04/16/2004 2:28:07 PM PDT by Polybius
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disarm the idiots & let them herd sheep!
7 posted on 04/16/2004 2:28:07 PM PDT by NoClones
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These people have only known brutal oppression their whole lives. They have no concept of law and order. They're more than happy to live like cockroaches and have savage gangs running things in place of Saddam. It's what they know and it's what they're comfortable with. If they won't uphold law and order, they never should have signed up anyway. They should have realized that joining the ICDC means more than standing around keeping people from cutting in the grocery store line.
8 posted on 04/16/2004 2:28:54 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Bad spellers of the world untie!!)
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How could an Iraqi fight an Iraqi like this?

How about fighting the foreign arabs?

9 posted on 04/16/2004 2:29:26 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: NoClones
No. Let them herd pigs!
10 posted on 04/16/2004 2:31:48 PM PDT by freeangel (freeangel)
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To: traumer
I don't know.

I guess the vetting wasn't good enough.


But, keep in mind:

There are at least hundreds of Iraqis taking part.


These hapless characters probably would only have been in the way of the marines anyways.

Cheers.
11 posted on 04/16/2004 2:33:21 PM PDT by Eurotwit
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To: NoClones
not sheep, Pigs.
12 posted on 04/16/2004 2:35:03 PM PDT by PokeyJoe (FCC Warning: This post censored for an obvious Janet.)
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To: Eurotwit
If that's their attitude, let's turn the country over to the Kurds, put them in charge, let the Kurds handle things, and we exit.

The Iraqis have been subjugated so long, they don't know how not to be subjugated. At best, it would take re-educating the next two generations so that, in 30 years, there might be a population we could negotiate with. Heck, liberate the Iranians and turn Iraq over to them.

13 posted on 04/16/2004 2:46:44 PM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: glorgau
The best answer to this problem is to have an Iraqi general Staff who will have tactical command of the these units but will be under Coalition control. We would allow them to punish Iraqis for cowardice any way they see fit.
14 posted on 04/16/2004 2:49:43 PM PDT by DHerion (They need an Iraqi General staff)
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How could an Iraqi fight an Iraqi like this?

Because the first Iraqi is part of the civil defense corps, and the second Iraqi is a MARAUDING THUG MURDERER, you BIGOTED DUMBASS.

This kind of idiotic moral cowardice is what really begs for dictatorship. "You want to be my dictator? I guess I will acquiesce. After all, you're an 'Iraqi' and I am too, how can I possibly resist you?" Bleah. Pathetic.

15 posted on 04/16/2004 2:52:40 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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To: Polybius
Such questions never occurred to my two uncles who fought other Cubans at the Bay of Pigs.

That's because they weren't bigots and they weren't cowards, they cared about freedom and had the b**ls to fight for it.

That's the difference.

16 posted on 04/16/2004 2:53:31 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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To: TomGuy
Itæs going to take a while, but I am sure it is going to work out in the end.

The alternative is simply not thinkable.

I don't know if this is taboo or not here on freerepublic, but I quite like Tom Friedman of the NY Times. This is a generational struggle. It can be no other way, unless we terrorise the muslim world into submission. I think the President gets it and it pleased me that Condi emphasised this in her 911 comitte testimony.

If what I have read is correct, then Vietnamisation worked in Vietnam, and the same should (And is being done) be done in Iraq.

Cheers.
17 posted on 04/16/2004 2:56:50 PM PDT by Eurotwit
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Ali Hussein, a Shi'ite private, said the brigade's mission since its formation had been security tasks such as conducting searches and guarding buildings

As Trump would say: YOU'RE FIRED!

18 posted on 04/16/2004 3:03:26 PM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: Eurotwit
"How could an Iraqi fight an Iraqi like this?"
It's called policing you useless idiot. Alot of them aren't even Iraqi. Who did you think you would be fighting? Swedes?
I'm not surprised to see this from arabs, but im upset to see that some of them were peshmerga Kurds. Those guys were tough as nails and totally loyal to us despite all they'd been through.
19 posted on 04/16/2004 3:19:21 PM PDT by Betaille ("Show them no mercy, for none shall be shown to you")
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To: Betaille
I do not believe everything I see on the Internet, or the news.
20 posted on 04/16/2004 3:32:19 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Sane, and have the papers to prove it!)
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