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04/08/2004 Archived Entry: "This is what we're up against."
This is what we're up against.
This doesn't sound like a few dead-enders to me. Sounds like a whole lotta pissed-off people, who usually hate each other's guts, uniting against an enemy they hate even more.
Thousands of Sunni and Shiite Muslims forced their way through US military checkpoints Thursday to ferry food and medical supplies to the besieged Sunni bastion of Fallujah where US marines are trying to crush insurgents.Troops in armoured vehicles tried to stop the convoy of cars and pedestrians from reaching the town located 50 kilometers west of Baghdad.
But US forces were overwhelmed as residents of villages west of the capital came to the convoy's assistance, hurling insults and stones at the beleaguered troops.
Some 20 kilometers west of Baghdad, a US patrol was attacked just moments before the Iraqi marchers arrived. Armed insurgents could be seen dancing around two blazing military vehicles.
Two US Humvees tried to stop the marchers but were forced to drive off as residents joined the marchers, shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greater).
US troops again blocked the highway further west, but were forced to let the Iraqis past as they came under a hail of stones.
Sitting on top of supply trucks, young men also hurled empty bottles of water and waved their shoes in sign of disdain at the US troops.
Replies: 6 people speak up
boy, its a good thing this war was over last year, or else this would be really bad news
Posted by justin @ 04/08/2004 07:04 PM NY
and it's a good thing the iraqi's welcome us with open arms!
Posted by skippy @ 04/08/2004 09:45 PM NY
The new spin is out on what those Blackwater folks were doing in Fallujah:
But now it appears that the four private security contractors killed, burned and mutilated in Fallujah last week were in fact lured into a carefully planned ambush by men they believed to be friendly members of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, according to Patrick Toohey, a senior executive at the security firm, Blackwater USA.
But the convoy, on a mission to pick up kitchen equipment,
...suffice to say I find this unconvincing. Main point of the story though is that the "Free Iraqi Army", that we just trained at such laborious expense, is pretty much no more.
Posted by Xan @ 04/08/2004 10:42 PM NY
I read an article on the Web yesterday that talked about a reporter in Iraq who came across a mass grave, filled with bodies of Iraqis killed by American forces. So, now we are the ones creating mass graves. How sad.
Conservatives, having no WMDs to justify this God-awful invasion, have been using the imagery of mass graves filled with Hussein’s victims to justify our invasion. Will they now acknowledge that the U.S. is the one filling these mass graves with Iraqi civilians???
I do not consider this war to be comparable to Viet Nam. It may be worse. Why? In Viet Nam, at least there was an army we were fighting against, although many, many civilians were killed as "collateral damage". However, in Iraq, we are not fighting an enemy army - we are fighting directly against the civilian population itself. This is a horrible turn of events and makes us all accomplices to mass murder. On this Easter weekend, may God have mercy on all of us.....
Posted by Stephen Kriz @ 04/09/2004 11:48 AM NY
This is really turning into a world of grief and it is due in no small part to an atrocious lack of planning and understanding of the problems.
Posted by cass @ 04/09/2004 08:59 PM NY
In Iraq they are burying their dead in the football field, as they are not allowed to go to the cemetery.www.riverbendblog.blogspot.com
This whole thing just makes me sick. Bush is on his umpteenth vacation (that we're probably paying for) and has total disregard for the suffering he is causing.
Posted by Allison @ 04/10/2004 12:29 AM NY
