Iraqi allies warn US over Falluja (described as genocide" )

BBC ^ | 10 April, 2004

[traumer]

too late

[anniegetyourgun]

No, what Saddam did to his own people was a humanitarian disaster. This is not a disaster, it's war.

[EternalHope]

We're killing lots of bad guys. That means we should give up?

[Jeff Head]

This is pure propoganda and grandstanding.

If it were genocide, our Marines would not be in the city and we would have firbombed the entire place, leaving tens of thousands dead and only rubble standing.

In World War II, we did just that, over and over again, to break the will of and utterly defeat our enemies and the populations who harbored and supported them...and to preserve American lives.

We are showing remarkable restraint...in fact, far too much restraint IMHO...to enemies and the populations who are harboring them. Give the people who desirte it 48 hours to either defeat the terrorists and insurgents themselves or to exit the city...then lay waste to the place.

[Frank_2001]

John F'n Kerry evidently thinks so;)

[freeangel]

I thought genocide was against a race. This is a group of terrorists.

[Frank_2001]

3000 dead at the World Trade Center....don't lecture US about genocide!

[baltodog]

Their religious leaders have given them permission to mutilate.

They are firing AK's and RPG's at our soldiers.

They use innocent civilians as propaganda in their media machine.

...and we're the one's who are committing genocide.

[Texas_Jarhead]

This here is a nice slight of hand...

"Estimates from 8,865 to 10,715 *"

And what source is cited for this estimate?

"* Iraqi Body Count, to 8/04/2004"

What kind of source is that? I'll tell you what kind, it's a far left website called iraqibodycount.com. Of course the BBS doesn't see fit to tell the truth on this matter and with good reason.

[traumer]

those 'people' are crooked cry-babies....
Rascals

[SevenDaysInMay]

We ought to be using trash trucks to pick up islamist dead.

[jwalsh07]

Where were all these heroes when Saddam and the boys were committing mass rape, murder and theft?

Genocide my ass.

[traumer]

"How can a superpower like the US put itself in a state of war with a small city like Falluja? This is genocide," he told AFP....

[Spruce]

The USMC was deployed to Falujah months ago. For a reason. The bad-guys are tasting the USMC and are crying mercy via their propaganda wings.

Now is not the time for us at home to go wobbly.

[txhurl]

Here we have Fallujah as 300K. I see 500K, 200K. Which is it, anybody know? Because if MOST Fallujans have evacuated (say 80%) by, say Wednesday, then I would be OK with a Dresden. But not before.

[river rat]

I thought they fired the lying leftist managment and "journalists" at BBC...
They overlooked a few...

I hope most folks are able to see through the extreme bias of some news sources----Reuters, BBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC etc.....

Semper Fi

[traumer]

AFP = Agence France-Presse

makes sense...

[Spruce]

During OIF, ships of the Royal Navy banned BBC brodcasts citing 'enemy propoganda'.

[traumer]

OIF ? Falkland Islands ??

[MHGinTN]

It is difficult to take serious the genocide assertions from other Arabs who said not one damn thing to Saddam the benefactor when he was committing it on the Marsh Arabs and the Kurds! The French are so ... french.