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04/09/2004 Archived Entry: "Hearts and minds..."
Hearts and minds...
Here's a little update on how great things are going over in Iraq today.
A Reuters journalist saw two captive foreigners in a mosque in a village in the Abu Ghraib district. One was wounded in the shoulder. Both men were weeping.At the scene of the convoy attack, a dead foreigner lay on the road with a bloody head as an Iraqi beat him.
Teenage fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles lurked on bridges or in derelict lots near the main highway leading west toward the embattled town of Falluja.
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"We are seeing the liquidation of a whole city," Governing Council member Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar told Al Jazeera television, saying he might resign in protest over the treatment of Falluja.
Clashes erupted after Friday prayers in the mixed Sunni- Shi'ite town of Baquba, north of Baghdad, as insurgents fought U.S. troops and attacked buildings, witnesses said.
Shooting also broke out after a demonstration in the northern city of Mosul, witnesses said. They said at least three Iraqis were killed in fighting around Mosul city hall and a dawn-to-dusk curfew had been imposed.
Clashes in the shrine city of Kerbala between Shi'ite fighters and Polish and Bulgarian troops killed 15 Iraqis.
Shi'ite militiamen still control the center of the shrine city of Najaf, where Sadr is thought to be holed up. The violence erupted as Shi'ite pilgrims thronged Kerbala for Arbain, a religious occasion that climaxes this weekend.
Sunnis and Shi'ites prayed together in the southern city of Basra, in one of many shows of solidarity seen across Iraq.
A major international oil conference due to take place in the city later this month was canceled due to security fears.
Yeah, but Saddam's out of power! He was a bad, bad man!
Replies: 5 people speak up
I'm so glad to know the Sunnis and Shiites are finally putting the past behind them. And just to think, all because a small group of highly dedicated White House officials wanted so badly for those two groups to set aside their differences and come together. Awww, ain't love beautiful?
Posted by jack @ 04/09/2004 01:25 PM NY
you know, bush may just pull off a unified, democratic iraq yet, he just has to piss off the kurds so much that they join forces with the shi'ites and the sunnis in a universal hatred of us. of course democracy in a country where everyone hates us could only lead to a government that hates us, but then again we all know that they dont want a real democracy in iraq anymore than they want one in america. democracy is dangerous to tyrants. i say we just bomb a few kurdish villiages, just enough to get them involved in the intifada too, and then we can leave. mission accomplished, a unified iraqi people, ta dah!!
Posted by justin @ 04/09/2004 01:45 PM NY
Somehow, I doubt the 'schools are open.' All of this horrible news. We've lost nearly 1/3 of Baghdad, today, when we lost Sadr City. The Northwestern portion of Baghdad-- home to nearly 2 million people. This means back to the Greenzone, and we' as taxpayers just lost MILLIONS of the rebuilding investment that the BFEE bilked out of us. All of it-- schools, police, vehicles-- HUMANS-- all up in smoke...
Thanks George-- you Bastard.
Tony B.
Posted by Monkeyfister @ 04/09/2004 06:34 PM NY
In every opinion poll taken in Iraq, there is a continuing support for the Americans to stay until a legitimate, stable representative governmnet is established. Sadr is viewed by the vast majority of Iraqis as a dangerous quack, and very few desire a theocratic government.
This is now the pro-American country in the region. (And you would abandon them?).
In a dictatorship, a small ferocious mob without popular support counts for something.
In a democracy, it doesn't.
THIS is what Sadr fears.
Do you want to give into him? We are meeting the enemy head on, and this is no time to back down.
If we do abck out of this fight,they will fight us later (on their terms).
Posted by rogersj52003@yahoo.com @ 04/10/2004 10:48 AM NY
"In a dictatorship, a small ferocious mob without popular support counts for something. In a democracy, it doesn't."
Ahhh....that explains the Bush administration.
Posted by Jay @ 04/10/2004 11:00 AM NY
