What is their FR screen name?
Posted on 03/16/2006 1:32:01 AM PST by hawkiye
Baghdad -- Om Hussein, wrapped in her black abaya, lists the contents of the family's walk-in storage closet: three 175-pound cases of rice, two 33-pound cases of cooking fat, six cases of canned tomatoes, three crates of assorted legumes, a one-month supply of drinking water, frozen chicken livers in the freezer. And in the garage, jerry cans filled with fuel are piled floor to ceiling.
Om Hussein, who was reluctant to give her full name, and her Shiite family are preparing for war. They've stocked up on food. They bought a Kalashnikov rifle and a second car -- so that there is space for all 13 members of their extended family should they need to flee in a hurry.
"We are afraid of what will happen in the coming days," she says. "Maybe there will be a monthlong curfew, or maybe fighting in the streets will force my family to stay in the house for days at a time."
In the past week, President Bush has tried to assure Americans that Iraq has stepped back from the brink of civil war. "Iraqis have shown the world they want a future of freedom and peace," he told the Foundation for Defense of Democracies on Monday.
Few Iraqis, however, share Bush's view that the crisis has been averted. They are readying themselves for the worst, fleeing likely flash points, stockpiling weapons and basic foodstuffs, barricading their neighborhoods, and drawing lines in the sand delineating Sunni and Shiite territory.
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I cant say which papers they are reading, but when the enemy uses DU talking points , they are definitely reading our media and using it against us.
Well, actually, no, it's not. It's close enough to where we can hear all the noises from there when they decide to explode things in various ways.
Are you really that much of a slave to the media?
Are you really deluded enough to hang all of Iraq's future one one neighborhood in Baghdad where Muqtada al-Sadr calls the shots?
Anecdotal observations by a reporter who then extrapolates them into a general trend and mood of the people. I don't trust such observations, but rely instead on those of people like General Abizaid who testified before Congress and stated on news programs recently that,
"I don't see civil war as being on the horizon. I think a civil war is possible if everything goes exactly wrong. If people abandon the path towards a sovereign and free Iraq and start moving only towards the selfish interest of specialized groups; I don't think that's likely."
"I don't sense that; our commanders in the field don't sense it when you talk to Iraqi politicians -- they clearly know that we're not trying to build -- and when I say "we" I don't mean we the United States, I mean we, those of us that are involved in this project in Iraq -- we're not trying to build a Shia Iraq; a Sunni Iraq or a Kurdish Iraq; we're trying to build an Iraq that's for Iraqis, and I think everybody recognizes that, that's the same politicians; and so they will move in a direction that is inclusive."
"It will be contentious because it's political, but it doesn't necessarily need to be violent. I'm cautiously optimistic that the way ahead will be one that leads to a better Iraq, one that is one moving down the path towards representational institutions."
"But I also understand that there is going to be an opportunity for violence during this period and so we should all exercise a bit of patience and a certain amount of "wait and see" attitude to make sure that the political process moves forward in the way that tamps down the violence and not encourages it."
What is their FR screen name?
LOL!
I'm currently in the market for a Kalashnikov.... does that count?
Exactly. There are a lot of folks in the US who have stockpiled stuff. When is our civil war comming?
coming up!!!!
Call-In
U.S. Policy in Iraq
C-SPAN, Washington Journal
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 191549 - 6 - 03/16/2006 - 0:45 - No Sale
Peters, Ralph, LTC (Ret.), U.S. Army
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters talks about his recent trip in Iraq and media coverage of the war. He's currently a New York Post columnist who traveled to Kuwait & Iraq from Feb. 24 to March 7 and wrote about his daily experiences. One of his columns titled, "Dude, Where's My Civil War," questioned the media's coverage of the war and the existence of civil war in Iraq.
He knows more than I do because he watches the news more.
Hey, Mike, have you heard about the buttkicking going on over at Samarra right now? Wooohooo!
I've heard warplanes screaming over Baghdad the last couple of nights, flying pretty low. I suspected something was coming. It was just like the days right before Fallujah in November of '04.
He's just showing how little of the situation he is actually aware of...
Between that and the genocidal troll that posted the thread.....sheesh....
another day, another beatdown of AQ.
I'm glad they stopped them from pulling off another Green Zone attack though.
Just another sign that we're winning this thing. We're on 'em.
And all those dead bodies they've been finding around Baghdad? A lot of them appear to be people who were suspected terrorists.
Bet the MSM hasn't mentioned that, have they?
yeah....that's happened in Fallujah a couple times as well but it hasn't been reported....
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