Fallujah and the end of the road

[seemslikeadream]

Wednesday 14 April @ 13:14:50
by Ed Felien

Last week four civilian contractors wanted to take a shortcut through Fallujah and ended up being shot, their bodies burned, dragged through the streets and hung from a bridge.


As Strother Martin says in Hud, “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” We call them civilian contractors. The Iraqis call them mercenaries and armed thugs. Bush says they hate our freedom. The Iraqis say they hate the freedom of Halliburton stealing their oil. They hate the freedom of mercenaries and U. S. soldiers killing Iraqi women and children.

In reprisal for the murder of the four civilian contractors/mercenaries the United States shelled and bombed Fallujah using internationally banned cluster bombs and killing more than 600 people. This was such a horrific atrocity it united the Sunnis and Shi ites in opposition to the U. S. occupation. Shi ite convoys of food and medical supplies drove to Fallujah from Baghdad, even though Shi ites remember Fallujah as the site of the prison that held Shi ites critical of Saddam Hussein’s regime.

Resistance to U. S. and coalition forces has dramatically intensified. Armored Personnel Carriers, helicopters, three Humvees and 10 tanks have been destroyed. The British base in Basrah was shelled. Al-Jazeera TV showed footage of two dead U. S. civilians identified as CIA operatives. A wave of kidnapping has subsided, after clerics condemned the tactic. Seven Halliburton employees are still being held.

http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=1024



As the rap song says: “Don’t give me no shit about blood, sweat, tears and toil. It’s all about the price of oil.”

[stopthegop]

1. Cool Hand Luke...not Hud

as for the rest...well...