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| Iraq |
| They desecrated our soldiers bodies. |
| 2003-11-23 |
| Three U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq 9 minutes ago By MARIAM FAM, Associated Press Writer MOSUL, Iraq - Gunmen killed two American soldiers driving through this northern Iraqi city Sunday, and then a crowd swarmed the scene, looting the soldiers’ vehicle and pummeling their bodies, witnesses said. Another soldier was killed in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad. Elsewhere, three American civilian contractors were wounded in an explosion in the northern oil center of Kirkuk. First reports said the blast was from a mortar, but U.S. Lt. Col. Matt Croke said officials later concluded it was from a bomb. The 101st Airborne Division said its soldiers in Mosul were shot while driving between U.S. garrisons. Several witnesses also said the soldiers were shot during the attack in the Ras al-Jadda district, though earlier reports by witnesses said assailants slit the soldiers’ throats. Bahaa Jassim, a teenager, said the soldiers’ vehicle crashed into a wall after the shooting. Several dozen passers-by then descended on the wreckage, looting the car of weapons and the soldiers’ backpacks. After the soldiers’ bodies fell into the street, the crowd pummeled them with concrete blocks, Jassim said. I’m so pissed right now I don’t even have the words. We need to find these people and kill them in public. We need to react to this so harshly that when scum like those who desecrated our soldiers lifeless bodies see another dead US soldier, they run in the other direction. |
| Posted by:Damn_Proud_American |
| #5 Tell me again why Col. West is facing court-martial? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-11-23 8:26:48 PM |
| #4 We should summarily shoot all captured insurgents. We should shoot anyone who helps them. When are we going to learn that the object of war is to defeat/destroy the enemy, not to try to make him like us? If we refuse to win we should not be there. |
| Posted by: SPQR 2755 2003-11-23 6:39:58 PM |
| #3 I am highly skeptical of any AP or Reuters report that gives the impression of extreme hatred and opposition among ordinary Iraqis. Note that the report of the bodies being pummelled with blocks comes from a single teenage witness. Al Reuters was more specific, clairvoyantly declaring that the mob was motivated by anger over recent US raids. This was fallaciously based on an Iraqi fireman's statement that the insurgents' anger over the raids was the reason for the ambush, which is probably true but not the same thing at all. The fireman said nothing about the actions or motives of the bystanders. It could also be that the "bystanders" were not bystanders at all, but the insurgents themselves. It is possible that the presence of the armed insurgent influenced the crowd's behavior even if this is not the case. Conclusion: a barbarous but relatively straightforward episode of looting is spun to serve as an example of popular rage against the American occupation. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2003-11-23 2:44:19 PM |
| #2 The Arab world apparently WANTS to be exterminated. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-11-23 2:24:18 PM |
| #1 Btw, I started a blog a few days ago. If you feel like it, check it out and let me know what you think. You can click on the website link by my name to get there. |
| Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2003-11-23 12:34:01 PM |