Well, some residents of Fallujah apparently feel otherwise. I realize that the following is not an objective account, but neither, I submit, is what we see here. So here is an account with a different bias. I reiterate that I do not necessarily agree with it, any more than I do with Fox News.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_ID=9492 Not "liberation"- An occupation 8/17/2005 7:30:00 AM GMT Ads by alClick - Middle East Advertising Get Saxo Bank Membership in Arabic and English The financial resource for serious traders Free Membership - Sign up for immediate access http://www.saxobank.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It has become clear that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country. The U.S. needs to put an immediate end to this quagmire in Iraq. It has become clear that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country. America freed Iraq of what it called the "dictator rule" of Saddam Hussein, but not from its illegal occupation. This is exactly what happened in 1898; the U.S. liberated Cuba from Spain, but not from the U.S. occupying forces- the Spanish rule was overthrown, but the U.S. established a military base in the country- same scenario we now see in Iraq. Let's compare what happened in Cuba to what the U.S. is now doing in Iraq. The U.S. corporations moved into Cuba, just as Bechtel and Halliburton and other oil corporations are moving into Iraq. The U.S. imposed, with the support from local accomplices, the constitution that would govern Cuba, just as it has drawn up a constitution for Iraq, and persuaded all parties to accept it. Not liberation. An occupation. And it is an ugly occupation. The New York Times reported on August 7 2003 that General Sanchez in Baghdad was worried about the Iraqi reaction to occupation. The Iraqi leaders were giving him a message, as he put it: "When you take a father in front of his family and put a bag over his head and put him on the ground, you have had a significant adverse effect on his dignity and respect in the eyes of his family." (That's very perceptive.) Back to November 2004, when the U.S. forces bombarded the Iraqi town of Fallujah, killing more than two thousands of its people; America said that the objective of the operation was to rid the town of the "terrorist bands" acting as part of a "Ba'athist conspiracy". But on June 16 2003, nearly six weeks after President Bush claimed victory in Iraq, two reporters for the Knight Ridder newspaper group wrote this about the Fallujah area: "In dozens of interviews during the past five days, most residents across the area said there was no Ba'athist or Sunni conspiracy against U.S. soldiers, there were only people ready to fight because their relatives had been hurt or killed, or they themselves had been humiliated by home searches and road stops ... One woman said, after her husband was taken from their home because of empty wooden crates which they had bought for firewood, that the U.S. is guilty of terrorism." The U.S. soldiers, who were told they would be welcomed as liberators, now find they are surrounded by a hostile population. Numerous reports talked about how angry the U.S. soldiers are at being kept in Iraq. Such sentiments are becoming known to the U.S. public. A Gallup poll conducted two years ago showed that only 13% of the U.S. public thought the war was going badly. According to a poll published by The New York Times and CBS News on June 17, 51% now think that Bush's decision to invade Iraq was wrong and that the U.S. should not have occupied Iraq. The poll also showed that 59% disapprove of Bush's handling of the situation. The Americans feel they're living in an occupied country that some alien group has taken over. The U.S. is ruled by a president surrounded by a group of politicians who care nothing about human life in the U.S. or abroad, who care nothing about what happens to the earth, or what kind of world we are leaving future generations. The more the lies are being exposed the more Americans are beginning to feel, like the soldiers in Iraq, that something is terribly wrong. A strange phenomenon is occurring in national American papers, with many editors beginning to condemn the war in Iraq, when previously many of them "accepted" it. Failing to capture the real perpetrators of 9/11 attacks, Bush's admin invaded Afghanistan, killing thousands of people and driving hundreds of thousands from their homes. And still does not know where the criminals are. Not knowing whether the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction or not, the U.S. invaded Iraq, killing thousands of civilians and terrorising the population. Not knowing who was and was not a "terrorist", the U.S. government held hundreds of people in its detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The "war on terrorism" is not only a war on innocent people in other countries; it is a war on American public: on its liberties and standard of living. The lives of the young are being stolen like the country's wealth is being stolen and handed over to the super-rich. The Iraq war won't stop here; it will claim many more victims, in Iraq and on U.S. territory. The Bush repeatedly claimed that, unlike the Vietnam War, Iraq war is not causing many casualties. Fewer that 2,000 U.S. soldier have lost their lives in Iraq. But by the time the war ends, the number of its indirect victims, through disease or mental disorders, will be huge. After the Vietnam War, veterans reported congenital malformations in their children, caused by Agent Orange. On 8/19/05, G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't understand how fallujah fits in this context? > > Did George Bush detonate a car bomb in fallujah, with the express intent of > killing Iraqi CIVILIANS in order to force an Iraqi government to give into > his demands? > > The war in Iraq is a lot of things.......but it just doesn't fit the > definition of "terrorism". Are you sure the word you're looking for isn't > "tyrant"? Because you could make some valid arguments for that, me thinks. > > > still playing devil's advocate - please explain Fallujah in this context? > > > > Dana > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:170379 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
