Iraqis Vow Revenge As Hatred Of US Grows

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-2-2003 | Alan Philps

[prairiebreeze]

Falluja sounds like a hornets nest of left-over Baathist loyalist that needs a good cleaning out.

Prairie

[Maceman]

Iraqis vow revenge as hatred of US grows

Let me guess. They are going to roast our stomachs in the pits of hell.

[BrooklynGOP]

Searching for the ugliest comparison he could find, he said: "Even in Israel they do not shoot children in such numbers when they throw stones in a demonstration."

[mikegi]

The 82nd Airborne - one of the toughest elements in the US military - is ill-equipped to control crowds. The soldiers have no tear gas, and to disperse the first demonstration outside a school they were occupying they fired smoke grenades - a dangerous weapon in a country where everyone knows that the Saddam regime used poison gas.

Huh? This whole article is very confused. Here the author implies that tear gas (which would produce poison gas-like symptoms) would have been better than a smoke grenade.

The title is also wrong. It should read something like this: "Saddam Sympathizers Vow Revenge".

[MeekMom]

That's an understatement Prairiebreeze

[Jorge]

US Troops should do Iraq a favor and clean out this rat's nest.
These are Saddam loyalists and unsurrendered enemies trying to stir up hostilities among the locals...hoping for the failure of a free and democratic govt in Iraq.

They are a minority who want to screw up the new Iraq. Americans will weed them out with the help of other Iraqis.

[yooper]

"The Americans insist that gunmen among the demonstrators fired first both times. Iraqis support this in the first incident but all the evidence for Wednesday's shooting is that it came in response only to some stone throwing. Witnesses said that the gunner of a Humvee fired his machinegun at the crowd, while ducking down inside the vehicle."

Here's a suggestion: DON'T THROW ROCKS AT PEOPLE CARRYING GUNS! Sheesh, I'm always amazed at how Arab types love to bring rocks to a gunfight.

I'm also getting tired of the ingratitude that many of these people who we liberated have shown. Maybe it's time we leave them to the next piss-ant dictator who will come along and kill them. In fact, as we leave we should distribute flyers stating that we believe Saddam Hussein is alive and waiting to re-enter Iraq from a safe location.

[Mr. Mojo]

These same Iraqis wouldn't dare try this crap when Saddam's regime was in power because they were scared to death to do so. Power is the only language they respect and understand. If we simply mow down these grenade-lobbing sons-of-camels a few times in full view of the general populace, they'll start behaving themselves.

[Southack]

Ooooooh, now that our entire country's armed forces have been destroyed, we're going to frighten you evil Americans with really tough talk!

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[Southack]

"If we simply mow down these grenade-lobbing sons-of-camels a few times in full view of the general populace, they'll start behaving themselves."

True, but that's also precisely what the Left-wing reporters want us to do, so that they can then claim that we're no better than Saddam (something that even the accomplished liars of the Left can't even manage so far).

[Mr. Mojo]

True, but that's also precisely what the Left-wing reporters want us to do,

True enough, but what else can we do? A too passive approach to the situation would encourage more of the same, and the leftists would then claim that they were right all along -- that we never should've gone in there in the first place, and that the administration was presumptuous to believe that the Iraqi people would accept us as liberators.

[Al B.]

A British officer commented: "They rely too much on technology and hide behind their defences. They have to get out and meet the people and really find out what is going on."

Was the Brit who said this in Falluja? If so, he sure gets around. I saw this same quote a week ago in another article talking about the situation in Basra.

Seems to be an agenda at work here.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Means spit, Falluja is a hot bed of Sadaminites, the other Iraqis would love to come in and decorate lamp posts with the creeps.

[Texaggie79]

"Even in Israel they do not shoot children in such numbers when they throw stones in a demonstration." Sheeeeeeeeeeete, you didn't think we were going to let Israel have ALL the fun now did you?

[VietVet]

IMHO, you guys have it right. There were over 1/2 million members of the Ba'ath Party and its various police and political enforcement organizations. We haven't killed them all, nor have all of them run away, nor have we found them all and removed them from positions of power and influence. They are bound to resent us and try to cause trouble.

And there is another factor. As the folks on the receiving end of 30 years of discrimination from Saddam's largely secular and Sunni Arab Regiem, there must be plenty of Shi'ites just itching to give them "their turn in the barrel." Funny how some oppressed people can't wait to become the oppressors themselves. As far as the Allies are perceived as obsticles to this program of getting back at their enemies, we will be unwelcome.

VietVet

[ChiMark]

This is the current mantra of the liberal press. They'll insist that there was an alternative to combat action, that the country hates the U.S.A., children have no food, people had "jobs" under Saddam, Yada yada. However each liberal pinko must be engaged in this battle over the truth. So far our side is gaining ground and the liberal commie community has not made anything stick.

[Southack]

Actually, you can always rest assured that we are already doing precisely the right thing if the reporters are going out of their way to criticize it.

In this case, our troops are ignoring the vain, blusterous words of the Iraqi provacatuers, while simultaneously shooting the trouble-makers (without "mowing down" entire crowds of protesters).

And after a while, the reporters will move on to an entirely different attack (I mean, now that half of the Iraqi treasures have been recovered, you sure don't hear much about the looting of that museum, know what I mean).