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05/08/2003 Archived Entry: "Mission Accomplished, Part 2"
Mission Accomplished, Part 2
The more I find, the more pissed I get. Because I know that most Americans have been told that we 'won' in Iraq, and it'll be 'out of sight, out of mind' from here on in. They just won't get to hear about things like this:
Women in the Iraqi city of Falluja dress in long black shawls and sit in the back room of their homes to hide from what they say are the 'half-naked' U.S. soldiers spying on them with X-ray vision goggles.In the southern city of Kut, residents throw stones at U.S. troops, believing they steal medicine and crates of coke and burn the Iraqi national flag.
And banners across the country say the occupiers only want Iraq's oil, despite American assurances that 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' was designed to rid them of an evil dictator.
In post-war Iraq, false rumors and perceptions worlds apart fill the communications void between Iraqis and Americans -- already divided by cultural, language and religious barriers.
The outgoing head of the U.S. civilian administration, Jay Garner, conceded this week that his office had done 'an extremely poor job' communicating with the Iraqi people despite successes repairing power grids, distributing food and restoring water supplies.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
X-ray vision goggles?
Heh.
Posted by madprophet @ 05/09/2003 03:47 AM NY
