Iraqis Drag Four Corpses Through Streets

AP ^ | March 31, 2004 | SAMEER N. YACOUB

[Joe Hadenuf]

Big tests ahead for us, Americans and the West: i.e.,

F the freaking test. Your dealing with savages, and a country of religious fanitics. F um. They entire country aint worth one single American life.

Whether the USA can actually democratize and civilize these savage barbarians, bringing them into Western Civilization, through the often flawed concept of "nation building" which we are now no doubt FULLY engaged in, in the midst of a hot guerilla war.

I DONT WANT TO DEMOCRATIZE THIS A$$****S.

[AmericanInTokyo]

The Administration, steeped in Western Judeo-Christian Benevolent Ethics, sprinkled with a little Political Correctness and "Religion of Peace" Pandering Nonsense, can not and will not find it deep within themselves to respond with the kind of black ops, scorched earth response and TACTICS, coupled with a desire to WIN, that MOST of us are calling for today on this thread. Sad to say.

[Redcloak]

Fallujah is a town that needs to be erased from the map. In fact, it's long overdue for just such an "alteration".

[Charles Henrickson]

You ought to post them. . . . . Lets see the real truth.

You can see them, because I have been posting the links to the more graphic photos throughout this thread. If we were to post them directly, then the mods would have to add a WARNING: GRAPHIC PICS label to the thread, which would keep a lot of folks from reading and seeing what they need to see.

Here is an example of such a link:

Hot-link to the Al-Jazeera photo mentioned in post 166

[Atlantic Friend]

Get rid of Fallujah, and you'll have another city rioting, to which "Remember Fallujah" will have the same effect as "Remember the Alamo".

Since we were speaking guerrilla war here, you know guerrilla/terrorist groups just love to operate in urban areas, luring their enemy into massive retaliation. That gives them plenty of support, plenty of good propaganda. They know they can't defeat the Coalition, so they bleed it slowly until Western leaders either pull out or lash out. They did it in Indochina, in Algeria, in Vietnam. It's only logical they do it in Iraq.

According to Coalition intel reports, many insurgents currently operating in Iraq are probably not Iraqi-born. What would be the leveling of Fallujah to them ? Juicy propaganda, that's all.

I'm not into going soft with terrorists, mind you. In a related thread someone posted interesting facts about how General Pershing pacified a Filipino region where Islamists had rioted. He did not order the bombing of nearby villages, but he mercilessly killed the insurgents, in a way sure to make Islamist copycats wannabes shiver : they were shot with bullets rubbed in pork fat, and pork was put into their tombs. After that, according to the Freeper who posted it, the insurgency collapsed.

If someone plants a bomb or fire a RPG, let's shoot him. If people desecrate tombs or mutilate bodies, let's punish them according to martial rule. If someone thinks about helping the terrorists, let's make him think twice about it.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Prayers for Our Troops and Civilians in Iraq

What? Who the hell you think was dragging these American's through the streets and hanging their dead bodies from bridges?

Prayers for civilians in Iraq?

Sheeeeeet.......

You dont have a clue as to how many American Civilians are in Iraq do you? Sheeeeeet dumb comment on your part

Huh. What does the number of American's in country have to do with what I posted. If you could be specific.

[SLB]

I am telling you, if this kind of crap in Iraq continues into November, then Mr. Bush has lost the election, IMHO.

You are right on target. I can hardly start to think of Kerry for four LONG years.

[Joe Hadenuf]

You dont have a clue as to how many American Civilians are in Iraq do you? Sheeeeeet dumb comment on your part

Could you be referring to all the contractors and all the other American's in country that are escorted by armed guards everywhere they go?

[boxerblues]

hmmm guess you are clueless, you blasted someone in post#100 about praying for civilians. So according to you even if they are American civilians they dont deserve a prayer?

[new cruelty]

It is clear these people do not fear the United States the way they feared saddam. The immediate solution to peace is simple- kill them all, problem solved (though that may bring more problems also easily dealt with one way or another). The long term solution to peace is much more difficult- suffer through this terrible period of time and hope for peace. I'd like to think I have faith that if we continue to work hard things will work out, but situations like this make it hard to resist the temptation to 'nuke the site from orbit'.

[NetValue]

It is now time to arm our friends and leave Iraq. Let them fight for and defend what they want.

[null and void]

The entire Iraqi situation is going to be tough for Bush in November. Not only does he have to combat the liberal media and the spin they put on reporting about terrosism, he has to keep the economy headed in the right direction. All of this with a little dog named Kerry snapping around his heels. Not a good position for the setting president no matter which party they are from, but probably worse for a republican.

Leveling Fallujah today will be past the American attention span by November...

[Joe Hadenuf]

You can see them, because I have been posting the links to the more graphic photos throughout this thread. If we were to post them directly, then the mods would have to add a WARNING: GRAPHIC

I saw all of them earlier this morning.

It's almost as shocking as some of these posters here offering prayers to Iraqi civililians.

What insanity.

[Skywarner]

"Prayers for Our Troops and Civilians in Iraq" What? Who the hell you think was dragging these American's through the streets and hanging their dead bodies from bridges? Prayers for civilians in Iraq? Sheeeeeet......."

Just my humble opinion, but I think you're taking No Blue States' comment way out of context. The poster is simply offering prayers for the Coalition Troops and the Coalition civilians (i.e. contractors, DOD, CIA, WMD search teams, etc, etc).

To be fair, there are an awful lot of Iraqi civilians too who are helping the Coalition and are very supportive. Obviously, these monsters in Falluja today are not among them.

I look forward to the Coalition response. As much as I would like to see the entire city eradicated at the moment, that is not the answer either.

[shhrubbery!]

1. Increasing the "body bag count", so as to dismay American voters,and to persuade them to elect a candidate (such as John Kerry) more to the terrorists' liking.

If this is the Islamofascists aim in this incident (and I don't doubt that it is), it will backfire.

I think America learned a lesson from Clinton's pull-out from Somalia. We'll get mad, rather than dismayed. We'll demand revenge, not retreat.

[Wrigley]

Are the Sunnis really the ones we liberated? Weren't they what made up most of the Ba'athists?

[Joe Hadenuf]

hmmm guess you are clueless, you blasted someone in post#100 about praying for civilians. So according to you even if they are American civilians they dont deserve a prayer?

Your a liar. They stated prayers for "Iraqi" civilians. How could anyone watch what these Iraqi civilians did to Americans and then offer prayers to them? Am I missing somthing here?

[null and void]

It's pretty clear from his post that Joe thought you meant Iraqi civilians.

Just my 2¢...

[Psalm 73]

"Fallujah is a town that needs to be erased from the map."

Ditto - I know it's been said scores of times on this thread, but I just need to vent a little, too.
Give 24 hours' notice to evacuate the town, then firebomb it - I liked the napalm posters' tack. - Leave a smoldering ruin.
OK, I've vented, now is the time for W to show he is no klinton, and this is no Somalia - some type of devastating response must be given - and quickly.

[Charles Henrickson]

The latest information is that at least three of the four were American civilians (see caption below). They were contractors--I'm guessing they were there to help rebuild Iraq.

An Iraqi hits a burning car in Fallujah with a shovel. At least three of the four contractors killed in a brutal ambush west of Baghdad have been identified as civilian US citizens, a State Department official said.