Al-Qaim - I knew it - another Falluja

[clem_c_rock]

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000241.php#more

It just never seems to stretch the realms of comprehension of how wrong we could be handling this situation.

It just gets worse and worse. There has to be a breaking point.


<snippit>

The situation around Al-Qaim where “Operation Matador” is ongoing,
appears to be a micro-version of Fallujah. The military and corporate
media continue to portray the situation as if “foreign fighters” have
taken control of Qaim and surrounding villages (as was said about
Fallujah) when reports from the ground state that interviews with the
fighters have them all saying they are Iraqi.

Of course it behooves the military to claim they are battling “foreign
fighters,” because as in Fallujah and elsewhere, it doesn’t look good in
the press to admit that they are fighting Iraqis who are fighting for
their independence from the occupiers of their country. Even the marines
in Fallujah admitted they had killed a grand total of 35 foreign
fighters there. That kind of debunks the myth of a foreign terrorist
group taking over the city and terrorizing the citizens.

Another similarity between Qaim and Fallujah is that now there is a
humanitarian crisis in Qaim from the fighting. There are 1,300 displaced
families (approximately 80,000 people) from Qaim and the hospital there
was destroyed amidst fighting on 8 May between resistance fighters and
locals. On the 9th there was no electricity or water in Qaim and the
surrounding areas and schools were closed. On the 11th US warplanes
continued to bomb Obeidy and other nearby locations.
</snippit>

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. If the native Americans had a way to protect themselves from the invading

hordes of "Amurkans", the whole country might have been a lot better off. Imagine if they were able to hold on to everything west of oh, say, Nevada. Just think of how they lived, how they lived with nature, it makes me want to break something what was done to them, it really does. But today we can say that we treated them fairly and kindly, just like we are treating the "insurgents" who want the INVADERS out.

[TeeYiYi]

2. I wonder how many . . .

. . . innocent civilians had to die in that clusterfuck.

re: "marines in Fallujah admitted they had killed a grand total of 35 foreign fighters"

TYY

[unhappycamper]

3. If a picture is worth a thousand words, here's a 2,000 word reply

[oblivious]

4. "the hospital there was destroyed"

I wonder if it was one of the first targets, like in Fallugah.

[democrank]

5. I`ve read enough about Fallujah

to make my stomach churn. Now this? Sickening.