Iraqi Citizens Vent Their Anger...

[Lost Cause]

They are blowing off steam by looting key Baghdad centers, carrying off household goods from Uday's Olympic facility where downstairs he had athletes tortured, the U. N. building, and most regime complexes. They run by the reporters yelling, "thankyou!" and U.S. Forces being cheered, with flowers being thrown on them.
There is no sign of police, or government troops.
The nightmare is almost over.

Could they know something we don't?

 

[StrawberryPez]

Sounds too good to be true. I won't hold my breath.

Then again I'm the kind of person who thinks something tragic will happen the minute you stop looking.

 

[SleepingWarrior]

Then again I'm the kind of person who thinks something tragic will happen the minute you stop looking.

Don't worry something will probably happen. Won't affect the outcome but it'll most likely be bad.

 

[Lost Cause]

Judging by your AV S.Pez..

I would like you to hold your breath, and it would be tragic if I stopped looking!

It'll be alright.

 

[Kymberley]

I am still waiting......

Surely the Information Minister will be on shortly to let us all know that these are just more photos of the Al Jezeera network sponsoring the American propoganda machine.

Damn that man cracks me up and he keeps saying it all with a straight face.

 

[Lost Cause]

It's like Kuwait all over again...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqis cheered arriving U.S. troops and then went on looting rampages as vestiges of President Saddam Hussein's authority collapsed.

As U.S. forces moved through one neighborhood after another, crowds of Baghdad residents seized the chance to plunder military installations and government buildings, making off with computers, bookshelves, tables, even Iraqi jeeps.

Among the buildings plundered were Iraq's Olympic headquarters and traffic police headquarters.

On Palestine Street, where the Baath party as recently as a few weeks back held rallies and shows of force, gangs of youths and even middle-aged men looted the warehouses of the Trade Ministry, coming out with air conditioners, ceiling fans, refrigerators and TV sets.

Hundreds of Iraqis cheered U.S. troops in Saddam City, a poor neighborhood in northeast Baghdad. "Thank you, thank you, Mr. Bush!" one shouted.

A group of Iraqis held up a portrait of Saddam and started smashing it. A man declared: "This is for the criminal. We know what he did to our country."

The Arab language satellite TV station Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. reported from Baghdad that there was no sign of Iraqi government or military presence in the city.

LBC's correspondent Sultan Suleiman said neither Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf nor any ministry "minders" had shown up at the Palestine Hotel where hundreds of journalists are staying. The Iraqi government assigns "minders" to accompany journalists.

Suleiman said he toured Baghdad on Wednesday without being escorted by any Iraqi information ministry official. He reported looting of some government buildings in the capital.

The U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division on the western side of Baghdad reported only sporadic fighting overnight, with small groups of Iraqi fighters firing assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and some mortars at U.S. troops. There were no reports of U.S. injuries.

Maj. Gen. Buford Blount II, the commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, visited a brigade command post set up at the New Presidential Palace, on the Tigris River in central Baghdad.

Col. David Perkins, the 2nd Brigade commander, told Blount that his forces can go anywhere in the city, whenever they want and meet only sporadic sniping.

"Last night was dramatically quieter than the night before and this morning is dramatically quieter than yesterday," Perkins said. He said most of the forces still fighting appear to be Special Republican Guard, Fedayeen militia, Baath Party loyalists and volunteers from neighboring countries.

The two commanders then discussed what buildings could be used to house military units and a new government to replace Saddam Hussein.

"That's the next mental jump, is for the Iraqis to realize that even if he is still alive, he's not in charge anymore," Perkins said.

The majority of regular Iraqi army soldiers and Republican Guard troops are believed to have deserted and gone home. Uniforms, boots and weapons litter the streets and fill fighting positions throughout the city.

Iraqi prisoners, most of them in civilian clothes, are describing to U.S. troops how they were recruited, loaded onto buses and then dumped on the streets to fight with little training or direction. Several Syrian fighters have been captured, some with documents declaring them suicide fighters.

A Syrian prisoner claimed that 5,000 Syrians had been taken by bus to Baghdad to help defend it.

Slowly, more Iraqi civilians are venturing out into the streets and greeting U.S. troops, mostly with smiles, waves or a thumbs-up. Others watch curiously as the hulking Abrams tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and Humvees drive down the streets.

Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, U.S. Central Command spokesman, said Tuesday he fully expected looting in Baghdad, as well as elsewhere where there is "a vacuum in terms of control."

"I think as time goes on, more law and order will be established. Ideally that goes by way of the Iraqi populations taking care of themselves," he said.

Early Wednesday, shortly after midnight, a sudden flash of light illuminated the sky over Baghdad, accompanied by a loud clap heard in the background. The disturbance, however, was not a continuation of the nearly three straight weeks of Baghdad under attack: It was a thunderstorm.

 

[A Desert Rose]

Amazing sights in Iraq. There could not be better sights, in my opinion.



And now, the French and other 3rd world nations want a say in how the reconstruction will be handled. What balls... LOL

 

[bluespoke]

Amazing sights in Iraq. There could not be better sights, in my opinion.



And now, the French and other 3rd world nations want a say in how the reconstruction will be handled. What balls... LOL

The French can go kiss the world's ass!

 

[Lost Cause]

It reminds me of.....

The Berlin Wall coming down by the looks on their faces.
I just saw kids burning pictures of Sodamn Insane.
If he's still alive, I bet he wishes he's caught by the coalition, and not his former subjects!

I'm waiting for his supporters on the Lit to put their spin to this.

 

[A Desert Rose]

The French can go kiss the world's ass!

Just as the Iraqi information man (Baghdad Bob or Knucklehead, as he recently been called) is a laugh-a-minute, the French as silly as they are, they don't get it either.

 

[Lost Cause]

It's interesting to me...

The looting of the U.N. facility in it's entirety. They must have huge animosity towards the foot dragging and payoffs to the inspection heads by the nations opposed to the liberation.
Now the fun starts, the citizens will now go after their handlers and the bastards that fingered their kin.

This is going to be good.

 

[Myrrdin]

Today has been declared "National Wealth Redistribution Day".

 

[Lost Cause]

The Kurds seized Mosul...

And took over an ancient fortress used by the Iraqi military to defend the town. There is dancing in the streets, and smiles everywhere.
The same is reported in Basrah, with calm and order slowly returning as citizens take ownership of their communities.

 

[zipman]

Just as the Iraqi information man (Baghdad Bob or Knucklehead, as he recently been called) is a laugh-a-minute, the French as silly as they are, they don't get it either.

They really don't get it at all. They really are getting desperate too!

Good to see you Rose!

 

[A Desert Rose]

They really don't get it at all. They really are getting desperate too!

Good to see you Rose!

And always a pleasure to see you!

 

[Lost Cause]

A real hoot!

Foxnews keeps showing a video of a guy beating on a picture of Sodamn Insane, when another guy comes up in arab garb, lifts up the front, and sticks his dick in sodamn's mouth!
They keep showing it over and over, but don't seem to understand what's going on!
Muhahahahahahahahah!

 

[Kuntmode]

n/a

The longer the invasion continues, the more humans damaged and destroyed, the greater the support for the Coalition forces becomes.

Is it that the desire to belong to a winning majority, and a fear of standing as an individual, overwhelms compassion and moral or ethical standards?

Last night on the TV, I saw a small Iraqi boy with no arms and no parents. I bet he felt liberated. Maybe George W Bush will visit the New Iraq and explain to him why he won't be able to go and play baseball with his friends in the future Iraq. Why no one seems to be interested in the real victims of this war.

Why people like Lost Cause and thousands across America will be greeting the return of their troops and cheering their President in the coming months and beyond. Yet when 9/11 happened, they turned to the world searching for answers and sympathy.

I am sure if a foreign force invaded the US and toppled Bush and his war advocats, many American's would take to the streets, shake hands with the invaders and run off and load up the pick up truck with DVD's, computers, cases of free beer and carry on in the same fashion as those in Iraq.

Remember LA anyone?

Chaos creates the window of opportunity to those under the authority of people they dispise. They are called politicians.

 

[]ooooo(chained)]

Amazing sights in Iraq. There could not be better sights, in my opinion.



And now, the French and other 3rd world nations want a say in how the reconstruction will be handled. What balls... LOL

I saw the headline. Russian, Germany, and France to meet...

Talk about a history of trust and mutual respect between allies!

It ain't goin' NOwhere.

 

[]ooooo(chained)]

3 to 1 says All-JewsJeerYa is not beaming images of happy Iraqis celebrating in the streets.

They're still in the hospitals digging up casualties and showing American torture chambers exposed by Saddam's people as they were busy re-taking the city.

 

[A Desert Rose]

I saw the headline. Russian, Germany, and France to meet...

Talk about a history of trust and mutual respect between allies!

It ain't goin' NOwhere.

I think that if the US government and the coalition, allows it to go anywhere, there will be some sort of backlash. It was the coalition's money, and more importantly the lives of their soldiers that won this for the Iraqis. No one else, especially these almost 3rd world nations, should be allowed any say in any thing.

 

[Small town girl]

The end is near, quick someone tell the iraqi disinformation minister, comedy central is only showing infomercials and i need a good laugh.

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

3 to 1 says All-JewsJeerYa is not beaming images of happy Iraqis celebrating in the streets.

They're still in the hospitals digging up casualties and showing American torture chambers exposed by Saddam's people as they were busy re-taking the city.

Eh?

You been drinking SIN?

 

[]ooooo(chained)]

Hey, Bush I took amazing popularity and threw it away with two VERY bad decisions.

Still possible for Bush II and it has me concerned.

There must be punative measures taken for aiding and abetting after they refused to let us finish the job in '91.

 

[]ooooo(chained)]

Hey. It's 6AM here! I drink nights...

I am drunk on, "told you so, though"

 

[]ooooo(chained)]

The end is near, quick someone tell the iraqi disinformation minister, comedy central is only showing infomercials and i need a good laugh.

The guy will probably end up in SINdication...