We are Retaliating For Fallujah!!!

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Registered: 04-05-2004
We are Retaliating For Fallujah!!!
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Mon, 04-05-2004 - 1:42pm
I am happy to see that we are doing something!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4667031/

FALLUJAH, Iraq - Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops in tanks, trucks and other vehicles surrounded the turbulent city of Fallujah on Monday ahead of a major operation against insurgents blamed for the grisly slayings of four American security contractors last week.

U.S. commanders have been vowing a massive response to pacify Fallujah, one of the most violent cities in the Sunni Triangle, the heartland of the anti-U.S. insurgency north and west of Baghdad.


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Registered: 03-18-2000
Tue, 04-06-2004 - 3:22pm

>"Wrong. You drive safely because of your concern for others. You generally obey traffic laws becuase of your respect for civil authority. You drive 55 instead of 60 because you respect the power of the police to stop you and give you a ticket. "<


Wrong! I do not respect the authority or the power. As stated before I respect the law.


I find it presumptuous to state you know what motivates me.

cl-Libraone~

 


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Registered: 04-05-2004
Tue, 04-06-2004 - 3:23pm
You are wrong. The baath party sees us as conquerers, as they should. We are their conquerers. The other 5 million or so Iraqui's are happy to be free and most are very, very grateful.

(Your argument about the British leaves me confused - what on earth does it have to do with this - and how does it remotely compare? The logic seems faulty. please explain.)

How do you know what the Iraqui's think about the "puppet government and oil". Please explain it sounds like *American* extreme left wing propaganda to me.

You say, " don't know what history you have seen, but I don't remember too many times in history where that sentiment was turned around by slaughtering people". You miss the point. We aren't interested in turning around the sentiments of the people who committed hideous attrocities against us last week. We are interested in bringing them to justice and stopping this kind of thing from happening again.

I don't know what reports you've seen, but all that I have seen is that this is a strategic operation aimed to surgically bring the bad guys to justice. Nobody has said anything about bombing them. Unlike these animals we are fighting, we are very careful not to harm innocents, and try our best not to.

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Registered: 09-05-2003
Tue, 04-06-2004 - 3:41pm

I used the point of the British because that is what these people are seeing.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-05-2004
Tue, 04-06-2004 - 4:43pm
I still don't understand about the British. Here's what I recall about American history. The British were taxing the heck out of us (a 3% tax! Do you think our forefathers are turning over in their graves? But that's another topic). So we dumped the tea into the bay and declared our independence. A bloody war broke out and we won our independence. HOW does this compare with Iraq????

Next: How do you know that the Iraqi's were raised to believe that we want nothing more than oil and to subjugate their people??? That sounds like extreme speculation to me. Where is the basis for this statement? Where did it come from? It sounds so strange to me.

You ask me how happy I would be in the circumstance these people find themselves in. I'll tell you how I would feel. If I were caught on film smiling, dancing, desecrating dead bodies and hanging them on bridges I would feel pretty scared. That's how I would feel. And If I weren't I would know never to do that kind of thing. That's how I would feel.

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Registered: 03-18-2000
Tue, 04-06-2004 - 5:21pm

Ofcourse they believe that foreigners want their oil. What else?


To the Victors Go the Spoils of War.

British Petroleum, Shell and Chevron Win Iraqi Oil Contracts.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-05-2003
Tue, 04-06-2004 - 5:33pm

You don't think that the British did anythint to "scare" and "bully" the Americans to stop their petty dispute?

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Registered: 04-16-2003
Tue, 04-06-2004 - 5:57pm
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First of all, I do not consider Iraqis "fanatics". Your "defeat or submit" attitude, is not conducive to discussion.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-05-2004
Tue, 04-06-2004 - 6:10pm
Your comparison is faulty in every way. The Iraqis in Fallujah thought THEY could bully us by murdering descecrating the bodies of some of our innocent civilians. I in no way ever said that WE were the bullies, so are you comparing the Iraqi's to Britian during our revolution? I have never heard that the British did anything so attrocious, but if they did, WE WON, so justice was done.

Also, Britian owned us and we fought for our freedom and received it. We do not own Iraq. They are not fighting for their freedom. They have been conquered and removed from power. They don't like that so they have tried to bully us.

And your story says that a "witness" said that 26 people were killed including women and children. That is very different from your statement that we killed 26 women and children. And I do not trust this "witness" anyway. Since the 'witness' is unnamed, I must accept this information with a grain of salt. See how easily propaganda can spread?

minnie

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Tue, 04-06-2004 - 6:13pm
You're right. My mistake.

minnie

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Tue, 04-06-2004 - 6:17pm
I still believe that the only way to deter these animals is force, though.

minnie

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