***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 21 - LIVE THREAD***

Multiple ^ | April 9, 2003 | Various

[goldstategop]

Its looting and rioting only when its carried out against an anti-American dictatorship. Then its viewed by the press as a counter-revolution.

[rolling_stone]

I have a Vietnam refugee friend that I saw yesterday and he was excited, wondering if we would go back again without the political limitations...he knows what it was like and what it can be like after living in the US for 25 years....

[cajungirl]

I saw him,,cute! Is it strange that none of the looters have tvs or vcr's. This is sort of low budget looting on the fly. One guy had like an old cabinet of some kind. These looters ought to demonstrate for better booty.

[Howlin]

A big bump to that.

He must be so embarassed.

[Kip Lange]

Those were UN sanctions, and were also violated by France, Germany and Russia (among others)

Pasted the wrong comment, doh. Let me try again. I know the above, you know the above, any sane person knows the above, so what do we do about the liberals? :-)

[AFPhys]

IF the idiotic four (france, germany, russia, china) had STAYED WITH THE PROGRAM and enforced the sanctions, Saadumb would likely have been broken long, long ago.

[bornintexas]

He definately deserves the other star for his patience in dealing with enemy pressers everyday. I don't know how he does it.

[TomGuy]

These are happy looking looters taking the booty from the Iraqi govt office. I love the guy with the yellow plastic flowers,,what a funny thing to loot.

It isn't so much that they are wanting things of value, but that they want symbolic representations--"I helped take Saddam down and I took ____ from him." It is no less symbolic than those who took pieces of the Berlin Wall when it came tumbling down. It is a symbol of liberation.

[Catspaw]

I would assume they're going to do like they did in Basra--take everything out of the government offices that isn't cemented down.

Those flea markets in Iraq are going to be great for bargain hunters in the next few months.

[Cboldt]

But what do we do about the liberals? ;-)

Take their money and influence.

[Howlin]

Oh, here they come: the journalist questions.

As I said last night, I would LOVE to hear any embedded reporter discuss this Palestine Hotel issue with ANY of these 'hotel jockeys.' I bet they don't agree.

[cajungirl]

Loot their SUV's.

[blondee123]

These looters ought to demonstrate for better booty.

I saw someone drive off with a garbage truck & also the cab of a semi truck!!! LOL

[John H K]

I liked the old guy with the 5 foot gigantic super-tacky black vase with the gold trim.

[Timeout]

low budget looting

One Brit soldier was quoted yesterday, very sympathetically, saying "They're looting rubbish. Poor souls.".

[cajungirl]

I dunno,,that n korean dude hasn't broken yet, nor has castro. I doubt that sanctions work but that is another story.

[Kip Lange]

Maybe he has a "happy place" he goes in his head while he answers the questions...after all, it would only take about 5% of Brooks' intellect to deal with these morons, leaving the other 95% free to think about...umm...Anna Kournikova AND military planning.

[Howlin]

Exactly! He thought he'd get a deal from France. If France had stood with us threatening force, this wouldn't have been necessary!

[RippleFire]

Refused to join the Baath party youth group

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