Liberating Iraq

[Purple Haze]

This shopping center had to go, no GAP store.

Precision bombing at it's finest...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2887555.stm

 

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[Purple Haze]

That car might've looked like a tank from the air...

 

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[Purple Haze]

This morning an Army General gave a press briefing, and showed pictures of how our pin-point accuracy is doing. Impressive stuff, I must say. He showed before and after photos of buildings being blown up while the nearby buildings were left untouched. I guess the easy explanation is that the Iraqis are blowing up their own buildings, and stealing our laundry too.

The American Networks are still calling themselves news, but they sure are starting to look like cheerleaders to me. It's good for business.

 

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[April]

hahaha hanns im gonna get a blunt knife and rip open yo azzhole with it u fukker! if i ever see u in da street ill rip off your head and puke down ur throat...! burn baby burn heeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Won't you ever learn yaya? Threats are not allowed here.

 

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[LovetoGiveRoses]

Did the Iraqi's do that? They should stop terrorizing their own people!

 

[LovetoGiveRoses]

Good luck Yoyo. I hope you don't get arrested.

 

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[Frimost]

In Basra an Iraqi woman was seen waving at Marine and army convoys and tank units as they passed by bypassing the urban cities like Basra, later on journalists and British military units found her hanging by her neck from a lightpost! Why don't you fuckers talk about that? In Basra the Iraqi Fedayeen and republican guard have turned their 82mm mortars and 122mm D-30 Howitzers on their own people in the Shiite uprising and are shelling the city from within. He whole rebellion started when some Shiites began a peaceful demonstration in the streets and Saddam Loyalists started firing on them with live bullets massacring innocent civilians. But no, how convenient you anti-war types all forget to mention THAT!

The British moves came amid reports of rebellion in the Shiite-dominated city and harsh reprisals by security forces loyal to Mr. Hussein's government.

A woman who waved to British forces on the outskirts of the city was later found hanged, an American officer said, and the Iraqis moved D-30 artillery in place to shell rebellious residents.

U.S. Shifting Focus of Land Campaign to South

 

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[LovetoGiveRoses]

love: facts are facts

Yes, facts are facts. I will be glad when this regime stops terrorizing the citizens of Iraq.

Or are you refering to your smuggling effort?

 

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[Purple Haze]

I will be glad when this regime stops terrorizing the citizens of Iraq.

Which regime are you referring to?

 

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iraqi opposition groups called on the Iraqi people on Wednesday to be ready to rise against President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).

They also urged Iraq (news - web sites)'s armed forces, currently fighting U.S. and British forces, to join the struggle to topple Saddam, according to one Iranian-backed Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim group.


"Opposition groups ... ask the Iraqi nation to be fully prepared to rise against Iraq's dictatorial Baath regime, to free cities and villages," said Mohsen Hakim, a leader of the Tehran-based Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SICRI).


He said the call was made in a statement after leaders of opposition groups including SCIRI, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the pro-Washington Iraqi National Congress met in Salahuddin in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq late on Tuesday.


Hakim told Reuters there had been widespread demonstrations in parts of the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday, involving clashes between local people and the security forces.


Many civilians were injured, he said.


He said there had also been some anti-Saddam demonstrations on Monday in the Shi-ite holy city of Najaf, where protesters chanted slogans against the Iraqi president.


"People in Najaf and other cities are prepared and waiting," he said.


SCIRI spokesman Abu Islam also said earlier there had been disturbances in Basra on Tuesday, but he did not think these added up to a popular uprising.


Another SCIRI source said later: "Some disturbances took place last night in different parts of Basra, but it was not widespread and it was not an intifada (uprising).


"The people chanted slogans against Saddam."

Iraqi Shi'ite Opposition Calls for Revolt

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

Purple and Yoyo,

Pictures of a bombed out car in a bombed out shopping center in Baghdad means nothing. Last I knew, the Iraqi's had munitions also.

You guys know full well that the Iraqi military/militia is not above staging something like this for propaganda.

I say that if the coalition did this, chances are it was by accident. If the Iraqi's did this, I say that it was on purpose.

 

[Frimost]

gleaned from various newssites (CNN, BBC, FOX, MSNBC, The Guardian, 7am)

Gaisford, with the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, said: "Iraqi forces are firing mortar rounds on protesters who are protesting against the Baath Party.

"British forces are massing on the outskirts of Basra waiting to go in. It appears that the people of Basra have had enough of Saddam Hussein's regime and are rising up against the regime."

British troops are firing in support of what they believe is a civilian uprising in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, it is reported.
Artillery fire was being used to knock out loyalist Iraqi mortar positions which were attacking civilians, ITV news reported, quoting intelligence officers with the Scots Dragoon Guards.

The size of the insurrection is currently unknown, said GMTV reporter Richard Gaisford. Loud explosions have been heard coming from the city.

There has been confusion

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Iraqi forces also lobbed a “significant degree” of mortar fire at civilians, Brooks said, leading British troops to counterfire on the mortar positions.
Outside Basra, a spokesman for British forces, Lt. Col. Ronnie McCourt, said the Iraqi forces were “obviously resorting to desperate measures and trying to intimidate the population, and we are making certain that we neutralize them as quickly as possible.”

As British heavy artillery pounded the outskirts of Basra, reports began to emerge of what was described as a "nascent" uprising.

Black Watch troops on the Shatt al-Arab waterway said they had seen Iraqi artillery firing at their own people. Large crowds were said to be gathering on the streets.

A British officer quoted in pooled reports said: "We have seen a large crowd on the streets. The Iraqis are firing their own artillery at their own people. There will be carnage."

 

[Linedrive]

You can't argue that the US military has exercised extreme restraint thus far. At any point in time that city could be removed from the face of the earth. Instead we are trying to preserve the infastructure, fight against the real enemies (the regime not the people) who are hiding amongst a civilian population. Our government cares more about the Iraqi people than the Iraqi government does. Again, no other nation on the face of this earth would be using such restraint in a military action.

 

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You can't argue that the US military has exercised extreme restraint thus far. At any point in time that city could be removed from the face of the earth. Instead we are trying to preserve the infastructure, fight against the real enemies (the regime not the people) who are hiding amongst a civilian population. Our government cares more about the Iraqi people than the Iraqi government does. Again, no other nation on the face of this earth would be using such restraint in a military action.

This, I believe, is absolutely correct. I too feel for the terror of the citizens of Baghdad, but the terror they've endured under their own government has been lifelong, relentless and unending. At least this war will end, and with it will end the regime of Saddam.

I would have preferred our government to be less anxious to go to war, but now that's it's begun, there's only one way it should end.