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2003-08-13 Iraq

U.N. Official: Iraqis Ready to Turn on U.S. Troops

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Posted by snellenr 2003-08-13 2:40:41 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Just out of curiousity...what do the Iraqis do all day?

Seethe, check. Whine, check. Something constructive...(crickets)

I'm hoping that the above is based on the vociferations of a noisy minority, and most Iraqis are trying to lift themselves up by the bootstraps...instead of considering picking up a rifle and shooting at an American (or Brit).

Posted by mjh 2003-8-13 2:47:36 PM|| 2003-8-13 2:47:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Wasn't it the UN that mentioned 500,000 dead and displaced? Millions dead of disease? They can't be wrong every single time can they?

Posted by Yank 2003-8-13 2:48:38 PM|| 2003-8-13 2:48:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Let's see, an Arab UN bureaucrat talks to his class allies (Baathists) in Bagdad and they tell him that they're pissed because the Americans purged them and won't allow them back into power. What this tells me is that we're succeeding!

Based on things I've read in Strategy Page and elsewhere about the power situation, the only reason that the Sunni areas in Bagdad had 24/7 power was because Saddam decreed that the rest of the national power grid would suffer rotating outages in order to supply Bagdad's needs. From this we can infer that anyone carping about power outages is almost certainly from Bagdad (or some other favored Sunni town such as Tikrit) and probably a Baathists (the poor Shia neighborhoods got blackouts, too). So we can assert with a high degree of confidence that Ghassan Salameh (1) never left Bagdad for his fact finding and (2) has only been talking to Baathists.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-8-13 3:11:40 PM|| 2003-8-13 3:11:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, by golly, we'll just have to get a move on, won't we?

One thing that's disappointed me about the Iraqis is that they've had several chances to beat the heck out of Robert Fisk and haven't done so. Don't they respect the tradition set by their Afghan brothers?

Posted by Matt 2003-8-13 3:43:25 PM|| 2003-8-13 3:43:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Wonder how long any of the lights would stay if the US Army left? The US is the only thing between civilization and anarchy. Iraq without the US would make Liberia look like the kingdom of peace.

Posted by john 2003-8-13 8:56:48 PM|| 2003-8-13 8:56:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Ghassan Salameh used to be Lebanon's Minister of Culture. Now, as we all know, Lebanon is under Syrian occupation. All members of the Lebanese government are hand-picked by Syria. Is it surprising that one of Bashir al Assad's (the Syrian leader) minions would be down on the American administration of Iraq?

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-8-13 9:03:06 PM|| 2003-8-13 9:03:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Wow! Critics of the U.S. in the U.N.? Let's start charging them rent!

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-8-13 9:58:56 PM|| 2003-8-13 9:58:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 ...and in a French newspaper. I'd take this as gospel.

Posted by tu3031 2003-8-13 10:07:42 PM|| 2003-8-13 10:07:42 PM|| Front Page Top

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