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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:22 AM
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Iraqis Regret Wolfowitz Survived
There is a story within a story here with its own headline and everything, so I will post the second one. If its not OK please lock or delete mods. Thank you. Don

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031026/wl_nm/iraq_attack_dc&cid=574&ncid=1480

Brig. Gen. Marty Dempsey, commander of the 1st Armored Division, later told Wolfowitz: "I don't think this was targeted at you. I don't want you to take this personally."

"I don't," Wolfowitz replied.

Dempsey said the military had expected the guerrillas to attack in Baghdad as a sort of retaliation for the U.S.-led administration's progress in reopening a major bridge in the capital on Saturday.

"They clearly are trying to tie these things (attacks) to something we have done positive. This enemy won't wave a white flag," the general said.

Angry at U.S. occupation, Iraqis expressed regret at what they saw as an assassination attempt had failed.

"I wish Wolfowitz had been killed. I wish all Americans here would be killed," said Ali Hussein, a grocer in central Baghdad. "The Americans are not human beings, they are monsters. They lied to the Iraqi people."

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Flubadubya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:26 AM
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1. If wishes were horses...
Wolfie et. al. would be corpses.

Oh, how the Iraqis love us. Don't let anyone tell you any differently. Bwahahaha!!
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JeebusH Donating Member (212 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:26 AM
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2. They're not the only ones who regret Wolfowitz surviving ...
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:56 AM
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7. Amen to that
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loudnclear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 08:09 AM
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11. My sentiments, exactly!
Had he been killed or wounded I bet we would have seen his return at Dover Air Force Base...even though we have seen no pictures of our fallen soldiers.
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jrthin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 09:00 AM
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20. JeeBusH, Amen, Amen.
nt
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 10:52 AM
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29. Amen.
Piece of shit that he is.

The world is worse off for him having been born.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 02:07 AM
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77. So very very true.
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:31 AM
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3. quite a contrast to his TV photo-op on the news...
last night. He was shown getting a hug from an extremely grateful Iraqi gal in the North, who was soooo thankful we got rid of saddam. It pure propaganda and quite sickening...:puke:
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:41 AM
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4. She must have been heavily drugged!
That couldn't have been an easy task:


A "manzier," perhaps?


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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 08:04 AM
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8. What a bunch of miserable
looking sons of bitches. Take a good look and see how greed and power will distort your kisser.

......or maybe that is a look of concern for your welfare? LOL!!
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kayell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:27 PM
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71. Has Gen. Boykin seen that second picture?
There is a dark smudge over Wolfowitz's face. Could it be? Yes, I believe it is - THE MARK OF SATAN!
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:42 AM
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5. A US soldier died, tho, and 15 were wounded
What a shame that old blackhearted lizard Wolfie survives, and one of our kids dies. There is no justice in that.
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leetrisck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 08:07 AM
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9. Wolfowitz is responsible for that soldier's death
Must protect the power's that be no matter the cost.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 08:29 AM
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14. Major war criminal
The deaths and blood of thousands are on his hands.

what a lizard, look at his face---- pure evil.
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rook1 Donating Member (91 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 10:52 AM
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28. You have children
....serving in the military that are currently in IRAQ?

"and one of our kids dies"
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:11 PM
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69. WFT DO YOU MEAN ????????????????
THOSE SOLDIERS BELONG TO ALL OF US
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:49 AM
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37. It was a colonel
I wonder what sort of work this chap was doing. Was he staying at the air conditioned hotel while his men were sleeping in crappy facilities?
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:49 AM
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6. I wonder what songs
they were singing has they fired those rockets?

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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 03:16 PM
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59. HAH! Now that's funny!
:D

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progressiverealist Donating Member (460 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 09:17 AM
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81. If I had a rocket launcher...
I wonder if they know that song?
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 08:08 AM
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10. think he PISSED himself?
i sure as HELL hope so
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liberalnurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 08:43 AM
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17. I think your right!
That pasty facial expression he had during the impromptu news conference was a clue. My first impression was, "Oh, I think someone needs to check his drawers". :scared:
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 08:11 AM
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12. Talk about feeling ambivalence .....
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Flying_Pig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 08:14 AM
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13. Yes, neonazicon Wolfowitz survived. Tens of thousands of innocent
Edited on Sun Oct-26-03 08:15 AM by Flying_Pig
Iraqis didn't, and he was one of the primary engineers of their deaths. This little man has blood all over his hands.

Last night NBC News,as part of their new "Good News" offensive, showed an Iraqi woman attempting to give Wolfowitz a little hug, as he walked through the streets of Baghdad. Was she ignorant of the fact this evil little man was partly responsible for the invasion of her country, and the deaths of so many of her fellow citizens? Probably not. Then again, may be she was. Perhaps she was given desperatley needed food or water, and was simply showing thanks for the "largess" of her oppressors? Even a kicked dog will lick the hand of those who feed it. Whatever, it was a disgusting sight.

If there were justice, Wolfowitz, Perle, and all the rest of the PNAC'ers, would stand trial in the World Court for war crimes, as would their lead stooge, "*". These people are truly some of the most evil humans to walk the earth since the days of Hitler.


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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 08:40 AM
Response to Reply #13
15. Keep in mind
that in their last election, 99% of the people voted for Saddam. I think the Iraqis are just very good at pretending they like you and are thankful while in the meantime they are twisting the knife they just stuck in your back. It's all about survival.


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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 10:27 AM
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23. I am pretty sure wolfie's little walk about photo op...
was held in a city in the North, not Baghdad. He would not last a New York Minute on a street in Baghdad!
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 08:41 AM
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16. Or was she another Chabli "plant" ?
Edited on Sun Oct-26-03 08:43 AM by bahrbearian
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 08:57 AM
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19. Who said money
Edited on Sun Oct-26-03 08:57 AM by DoYouEverWonder
can't buy you love?
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saskatoon Donating Member (574 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 10:47 AM
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26. Right on
though the goddamn pity of it is that 80% of the American people beleive all that crap that is shown in the papers and on the news but then again if they were shown the truth they still wouldn't beleive it because they have been brainwashed for too long and are like a bunch of sheep.
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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 12:07 PM
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42. You're right they are brainwashed
The puppet Bush regime is using new, aggressive forms of brainwashing to change the very way Americans think and feel.

<snip>

We are living under the beginning stages of a military dictatorship in precisely the same way that 1930s Germans suffered under the Nazi regime.

As in the case of Nazi Germany, state-sponsored propaganda (brainwashing) is a vital part of the Bush regime's strategy.

<snip

In an earlier article, I reviewed the varied aspects of personality profiling and simulation. While serving as Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department at the U.S. Army War College, 1993-1995, I conducted studies on profiling, psychological programming, and brainwashing. I explored and developed personality simulation systems, an advanced technology used in military war games, FBI profiling, political campaigning, and advertising. Part of my discovery was that:

unenlightened human minds are combinations of infantile beliefs and emotional patterns

these patterns can be simulated in profiling systems

these profiling systems can be used to program and control people

Personality simulation systems are being used to create political campaigns that apply voter profiles to control their voting behavior. TV commercials and programs use personality simulation to profile viewers to control their purchasing and viewing behaviors. And sophisticated propaganda and brainwashing techniques are being used by the Bush junta to keep American citizens under control.


Above quotes from Brainwashing America by Dr. Norman Livergood.
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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:53 AM
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38. Does anyone believe that Iraqi woman would have been allowed
Edited on Sun Oct-26-03 11:53 AM by Dover
within a mile of Wolfowitz if "the hug" wasn't pre-arranged with security? Puhhhleeeze!

I do wish that Bush, Rummy and their whole band of thieves would demonstrate their purported hero status among the Iraqis by openly walking down the streets of Baghdad (or anywhere in the entire Middle East) without security out the waahzoo. They wouldn't get two feet.
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jokerman93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:03 PM
Response to Reply #38
67. They wouldn't get much further
in Amerikaland these days either i think.
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RapidCreek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 05:44 AM
Response to Reply #38
79. Ain't that the truth....
We really should be taking down the journalists names who write such obvious bullshit. Keep a little list of who is working for the New World Orders Office of Propaganda. Might come in handy if and when we decide to send these fuckers to the Hague.

RC
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number6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 02:10 PM
Response to Reply #13
54.  "neonazicon" exactly, perfect discription.
:smoke: :thumbsup:
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lebkuchen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 08:56 AM
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18. The 1st AD asked Gen. Dempsey in August, “Sir, who is attacking us?”
Edited on Sun Oct-26-03 09:13 AM by lebkuchen
Dempsey responded:

Right now, it’s former Saddam loyalists and criminals who are angry at U.S. troops’ attempts to interfere with their lawlessness. But all that’s about to change, he said.

The new enemy is terrorists, he warned. They all know the Americans are in Iraq, and the “they all want to try and get a piece of you.”

“Regional extremists are even now flocking to Baghdad because , it’s the superbowl,” Dempsey said. “They’re coming here now and starting to get organized.”

Dempsey is warning his troops to get ready for an enemy “that wants to make a big, big splash, like dropping the Palestine,” a major hotel where many Westerners live.

http://estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=16537&archive=true

Comment: The general tells Wolfowitz not to take it personally desite the fact he was predicting "a big splash" to his own 1st AD troops two months ago. Wolfowitz was a big splash. Of course it's personal. Dempsey even got the target right: a hotel.

It's tragic to witness how top ranking generals are bending over backwards to prop up WH liars and connivers at the expense of their own troops' welfare.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 09:26 AM
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21. Did he get to "People who want you guys GONE" in his list?
"Former Saddam Loyalists"...Feh!

"Terra-ists"...Yeh, if you say so...Bet they think the same of you.

"Fighters against the Murkan Occupation"...Has a ring of truth to it, but does not support our mission of "Talk up the Success/Operation Feel the Love"

I can't buy this tripe. Maybe because I put myself in the sandals of your average Bagdhaddi. Think of it, You're being lead by a thug (yeah, he was a thug, but at least he was legally elected, unlike OUR thug)but you have lights, water, and a job. Solidiers only came to take OTHER people away.
Now, you have water SOME days, electricity is on almost enough to keep the fridge cool enough to keep your food(if you still OWN a fridge-you've been out of work since April), and there's foreign soldiers going up and down the streets and all they can do is point their rifles at you and scream at you in a language you don't understand.

Now, suppose this is NOT Bagdhad, but Fort Wayne, Indiana.

What you gonna do?
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truth2power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:06 AM
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31. Absolutely! Good post. n/t
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blackjack Donating Member (7 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:23 AM
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33. Oh really?
you say Saddam was legally elected huh? That's a good one....

BiggJawn, you lost me on the other stuff. I'm an active duty Marine who just had buddies come back from there, you're view of our patrolling tactics (i.e. yelling & screaming at innocent folks while "flagging" then w/a weapon) is amusing to me but unfortunately wrong. I have talked to eye witnesses (and I'll probably be there in about a year or so if we're still there) - so as much as people want Bush gone and our folks outta Baghdad the 'Nam analogy is not washing. The WMD argument is still more compelling.

The fellas I know say the opposite about Iraq. The news makes ratings off of trajedy, good news makes for poor ratings. Now, if Wolfie got whacked that would be huge ratings. However, the things I do know are that the locals are unhappy about the infrastructure problems, not happy about being off the public dole, would like us to leave within the next year, but don't want the Ba'athists to return either. Almost all hated Saddam and are glad he's gone. Most are optimistic about their future & are surprised we haven't been more heavy handed toward former Iraqi soldiers. Also, half of all the guerillas we handled were not native Iraqis. Makes you wonder how Saddam got 99% of a 'legal ellection'?
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neuvocat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:46 AM
Response to Reply #33
36. Each one of your buddies dies every single day
whether you like it or not. If you get sent there you'll probably be next. Don't be so sure of what goes on in that little head of yours.
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Sideways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:57 AM
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39. You Are So Wrong. The WMD Argument Is Shit.
These people want BUSH and the fucking Americans GONE. Come off your high horse the Iraqi people are fed up with guns and abuse in their faces. And yes it does happen on a daily basis.

They don't give a shit about the lies of WMD. And yes all that shit about WND was and is lies. They want their fucking lives back.

And BTW Mr Blackjack I live here in the ME and the shit about being off the dole is a dead give away to your political leanings.

Blackjack you don't know JACK.
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Unknown Known Donating Member (829 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 12:40 PM
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44. Good catch, Mary T
The "on the dole" was a dead giveaway. I know, because I live with one and my father was one. They all say the same little phrases, don't they.:evilgrin:
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 12:03 PM
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41. Anecdotal evidence
You can find that on all sides. A more accurate gage may be found in this Zogby poll, if we read all the way through it and don't rely on Cheney's misrepresentation:

snip>
And attitudes toward the US were not positive. When asked whether over the next five years, they felt that the “US would help or hurt Iraq,” 50 percent said that the US would hurt Iraq, while only 35.5 percent felt the US would help the country.
snip>
For the administration to continue to tell itself and the American people that “all is well,” only means that needed changes in policy will not be made.

Consider some of the other poll findings:

• Over 55 percent give a negative rating to “how the US military is dealing with Iraqi civilians.” Only 20 percent gave the US military a positive rating.

• By a margin of 57 percent to 38.5 percent, Iraqis indicate that they would support “Arab forces” providing security in their country.

• When asked how they would describe the attacks on the US military, 49 percent described them as “resistance operations.” Only 29 percent saw them as attacks by “Baath loyalists.”

• When asked whom they preferred to “provide security and restore order in their country,” only 6.5 percent said the US. Twenty-seven percent said the US and the UN together, 14.5 percent preferred only the UN. And the largest group, 45 percent, said they would prefer the “Iraqi military” to do the job alone.

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=33984&d=22&m=10&y=2003

I'd be hard pressed to reach the conclusion that their problem with us is that they aren't "on the dole", as you suggest. I'd look first to the tens of thousands that have been killed and invasion by the West to be the source of their "unhappiness".
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homelandpunk Donating Member (787 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 01:16 PM
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46. Hey jarhead, why aren't you pissed Wolfie got another soldier killed?
Edited on Sun Oct-26-03 01:18 PM by homelandpunk
Instead you talk about the Saddam "election" like that is the news of the day.
Go and sacrifice yourself for the Moron and his nazis...
Not one of the 350 dead soldiers died for you or me....they died for Bush...and you love that. How sick.
Go now...be a good liitle occupier.
I support soldiers who think for themselves....which means I don't support you, so if you love the unelected AWOL - btw, doesn't that BOTHER YOU?- if you love the AWOL bunnypants enough to risk your life for, then please...after you. You wanna die for cowardly imperialist liars go ahead. Go rot in a grave for Bush...oh the glory!!
I will save my support for those who want to come home and live to fight another day for something that might actually matter to real Americans someday.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 02:00 PM
Response to Reply #33
52. Saw a Reuters (maybe AP) photo in the paper yesterday
2 soldiers had a teen cornered in what looked like an Iraqi 7-11. They wewre "questioning" him about some "gunfire" they heard. I'll bet their command of the Iraqi tok-tok was maybe as good as the kid's English. Of course, what I noticed was that both soldiers had their fingers inside the trigger guards on their M-16's and THAT is "the universal language"..

As for your statement of being there "in about a year"...Count on it, Blackjack, count on it.And if your kids want to follow in Dad's footprints, count on THEM being there, too.

And as far as "good news" goes, WHAT "good news"? that Saddam is no longer in the school books? They have new school books? how many of our inner-city schools HERE could use new books? Saddam's face is off the "new" money? (I gotta question, is Schrub's picture on the new notes?) Yeah, we're supposed to "talk up the SUCCESS", but I can't see how having 2 or more US soldiers killed every day in a place we had no damn business going in the first place can be catagorized as "success"...


Now, before you get "tombstoned" as the dispuptor you are, answer me this:
How would YOU react if oh, say French troops were occupying YOUR town and hassling YOUR wife and YOUR kids....Hmmmm?

Go on, Blackjack, TELL us.

What? they didn't put THAT in that little "Talking Points" booklet the issue you guys?
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 03:25 PM
Response to Reply #33
61. blackjack..
I wonder if this is another form letter from a unit commander?
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 08:42 PM
Response to Reply #33
73. Chalabi...the guy who set up this photo-op (pic)....and thanks for
your service, Marine....my nephew is also in the Marines active duty in Iraq right now...AND here at DU, we want all OUR soldiers to come home safely, NOW !!!!



thanks to bartcop.com
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Beaker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:39 PM
Response to Reply #73
75. Ummmmm....
that's NOT the same guy in both those pictures.
sorry.
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 07:21 PM
Response to Reply #75
84. oh yes it is...and i have seen many others that varify it..since you're ..
Edited on Tue Oct-28-03 07:26 PM by ElsewheresDaughter
new to DU you are forgiven...stick around you'll learn plenty of truth here
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:50 PM
Response to Reply #33
76. Doesn't make me wonder.
I mean shit, Bush and crew just up and STOLE the election here in the States.

IF we are there next year?

IF?

I'll bet you a box of Canadian MREs we are still in Iraq on 10/26/04. I talk to old Army buddies and I guess the Marines just live in a different world than grunts in Iraq.
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 07:17 PM
Response to Reply #33
83. blackjack.you my friend are WRONG..i saw footage of our soldiers whooping
Edited on Tue Oct-28-03 07:18 PM by ElsewheresDaughter
it up and laughing their asses off while plowing bullets into an already down and wounded iraqi man who was lying in the street moaning ...on CNN...i guess the whores are feed up with chimpy blaming them.
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Sideways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:40 AM
Response to Reply #21
35. BiggJawn I'm Down With You Here Dog
Your post says it ALL. Oh except for those ass kissing Iraqis we see on TV either paid off or part of the Chalabi circus.

Saddam the bad is an evil fuck but he's NOTHIN compared to the evil fuckwittage BFEE.

In fact they fucking created him in the first place it was only when they deemed him "UNHELPFUL" they needed to blow his ass away.

Folks here in Oman are not cool with Saddam. In fact nobody in the region is but that does not excuse or justify the shit going down in Iraq.

The War ON Terror is fucking landing with a thud in the ME.

These folks KNOW who the fucking terra-ist are. And they are pissed off.

It is all a bunch of over hyped TRIPE.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 02:08 PM
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53. Just like Manuel Noriega, eh?
Rumsferatu shakes stink-fingers with Saddam Hussein (he was our best bud! What'd he DO with all those WMD's we sold him, anyway? they aren't there)back in the 80's while we were supplying him, and after he became "an embarrassment" to the BFEE ("He tried to kill my Dad!") they took him out, just like they did Manuel when he started skimming off too much of the CIA's (run by Poppy, don't forget!) drug money and keeping it.
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 03:21 PM
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60. Actually, he wasn't elected - to dictator, anyway.
The CIA guided him to that position.

Otherwise, excellent points.

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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 01:22 PM
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47. It's funny also
how they can be attacking soldiers and still be called "terrorists." Attacking our soldiers? That ain't playin' fair!
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mhr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 09:33 AM
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22. The Next Attack Will Be Against His Departing Airplane

So far the Iraqis have missed in all atempts. Maybe the previous efforts were target practice.

Better start wearing that Stainless Steel cup wolfie, because that will be all that's left when the big one hits!
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sistersofmercy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 10:34 AM
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24. Exacltly right! Like Rummy's plane taking off which the reports in US
said were aimed at a cargo plane but Iraqi's claimed it was Rummy's plane. Boy, I'd love to be a fly on the wall when Rummy, Wolfie et al get their orders to go to the land of everything's going according to the plan.
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yelladawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 10:36 AM
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25. Welcome to Iraqnam
These headlines were seen 30+ years when we wouldn't get out of Nam.
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truth2power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 10:47 AM
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27. Relevant to this...
I just turned on Face the nation (10:30 am). Bremer on. The host (can't remember his name) just asked: "Do we need to reinvade the Sunni Triangle?"

Re-invade? RE-INVADE??? Jeebus H. Keerist. Can you say "Vietnam?"

Down. The. Rabbit. Hole.

P.S. Now Lieberman's on. Hit the off button. :puke:
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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:01 AM
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30. I'm actually glad Wolf-wit
got a chance to try out a "smorgasbord sampler" of the events that he himself set into motion.

Wolfie made a trip to Iraq once before, I think in July. He came away, seemingly filled with a lot of regret. I remember him saying that they 'had made a lot of mistakes', especially in misjudging the Iraqis willingness to fight back. He readily agreed that the country was a mess. I read the 'testimonials', yawned, and went back to my coffee.


Flying Pig: those were pretty strong words you wrote, and I agree with EVERY one.
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caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:08 AM
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32. Want a GOOD laugh? The Freepers are saying "Gee, is this
a new terrorist group? Who are these people?"

HINT: They are called Iraqi citizens!

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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:32 AM
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34. Here is the BBC version of Iraqi reaction to the Hotel Attack.....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3215137.stm

<snip>
Hala, 32, told the BBC she did not agree with attacks, alleging that "outside forces", not Iraqis, were conducting them.

But she says public opinion in Baghdad has turned against the Americans because of the way their troops behave.

"Just this morning I saw a US soldier beat an Iraqi man in the street. Some time ago in Kadhimiya I saw a man being shot three times just because he was standing and staring at the soldiers. We ran away so I don't know what happened to him.

"We want to live in peace," she says. "Why this harsh treatment? It is like Saddam."

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OKNancy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:59 AM
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40. I can't believe DUers wish for someones death
Not everyone of course, but this thread makes me real uncomfortable. I put an alert fwiw
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NicoleM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 12:57 PM
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45. What if we were talking about Hitler?
Would it be okay then? Wolfowitz isn't Hitler, but he is responsible for the deaths of THOUSANDS of innocent people. Not to mention all of our soldiers who have been killed or maimed or wounded or emotionally scarred for life.
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homelandpunk Donating Member (787 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 01:23 PM
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48. Go report us to Homeland Security!!!
I wish for Karma to be REAL and not a religous fantasy. Everyone should get what they deserve. Problem?
Your comfort is not the issue, anyway.
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oldcoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 01:33 PM
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49. You are seeing a lot of anger
I think that many DUers (including myself) are furious with the administration. The Bush administration is not only evil but incompetent. Despite the fact that the Bushies may have been planning this war for a long time, they still managed not to plan for "postwar" Iraq. Unfortunately, too many innocent people (Iraqis and coalition troops) are paying the price for this idiocy. At this point, it is hard to feel sympathy for any member of the Bush administration considering what they not only wanted to invade Iraq but they also have indicated a desire to invade Iran and Syria. Not surprisingly, many of us would like to see members of the Bush administration suffer from the consequences of their actions.

While I do not want to see Wolfowitz dead, I do hope that he learns something of value from this attack. I hope that he realizes how lucky he was to survive this attack and reconsiders his role in this administration. The Bush administration desperately needs more voices of reason.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 01:53 PM
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51. Well he certainly pushed this war in spite of all the deaths he KNEW would
occur. I can't say I WISH his death but I can't say I hope he is safe either.

Maybe this will allow Mister Wolfowitz a glimpse into the REALITIES of war that he would not otherwise have.
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number6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 02:27 PM
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56. oh , I don't know that they wish his death....
but I wish we had our Constitution and our Bill of Rights
back, and the murdering crooks out of our Goverment .
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lyonn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 02:46 PM
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57. wolfie
My dislike of Bush and all he has clustered around him is beyond words, but, wishing any of them dead is only for jokes. That is why we have elections. Hopefully there will be enough people that get what this administration is all about. Well, maybe that's going to far. Who really knows what Bush & Co. is really about, it seems all so insane. By the way I'm an Okie too. Our State may be having second thoughts on Repubs.?? It seems possible.
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david_vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:17 PM
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70. "That is why we have elections"?????
Well, yeah, in yesterday's world. But if it's not out of line, I would suggest to you that Dubya was NOT elected, and that now, thanks to Diebold, Sequoia, and other such companies, we can no longer have any reasonable confidence in the fairness of our elections.
You should read up on the BBV stuff. In fact, every single American with even an iota of patriotism should.
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Fovea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 03:39 PM
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62. Do please consider
that many of us marched and wrote and protested against this invasion.
We have spent a year and more warning that we were starting the second vietnam war. We are not happily vindicated, but righteously pissed.

I do not feel any joy at hearing that an American Colonel was killed in the missile attack, or 15 others wounded. But in the midst of the anger and horror, I think I am allowed a moment of joy in thinking that Wolfie might have beshat himself cowering in a corridor while the house was rocking.

Why do I take joy in his discomfiture? Because he was a causative agent of the criminal misery that both our troops and the Iraqi citizens endure every day. Yeah, Karma.

I will be surprized if he makes it out of Iraq in one peice, frankly.
I only hope that they are a bit more precise in their attack than before. Though as asymettrical warfare goes, this was surprizingly precise, as were the two follow up attacks. This makes getting Wolfie out with his ass intact a major military achievment, like a tiny Dunkirk.

I hope they get his worthless ass out of there, and ship it directly to Leavenworth where it so rightly belongs. But if not, I hope that no heroic American military personel are lost in the attack that gets him.

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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 03:51 PM
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64. How many of you supported the death of "brown-skinned" Iraqis?
And how many are still supporting the criminal occupation of Iraq and the rape of Iraq's resources to line the pockets of corporate America?

No one cried for dead Nazis or their collaborators at the end of World War II, and no one will cry for dead PNACers.
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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:07 PM
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68. And not just his. May they all meet their just karma soon! n/t
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peterh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 12:11 PM
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43. With the new talking point the last couple of weeks…
Being that everything is great with the exception of a couple of isolated clashes….
I was expecting a Wolfy spin on this attack along the lines of…..
It was a planned pyrotechnic welcoming event that kinda went over the top and we regret the accidental death of one of our bravest. But really folks…everything is just ducky over there….

:eyes:
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homelandpunk Donating Member (787 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 01:46 PM
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50. "It was a planned pyrotechnic welcoming that went over the top"
haha. Good one.
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 09:00 PM
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74. and all that noise was the sound of those flowers hitting the hotel
walls....early in the morning....

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:


wolfo looked really awful on TV today, making his 'everything is STILL just happy in Iraq' remarks...those chicken-hawks are terrified when they get close to REAL war...outside their beautiful offices here in Washington DC, and down where the "shit hits the fan"
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TheLastMohican Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:56 AM
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78. No kidding! Some fireworks
If only you consider a salvo of 18-20 rockets from a set piece (probably the old rusty Grad system dug out from the sellar)to be fireworks.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 02:19 PM
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55. I don't think..
.....we would want Wolfowitz to be martyred. That would be too handy for the WH, and might actually affect public opinion in ways we wouldn't find useful.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 03:13 PM
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58. Recent propaganda..
Edited on Sun Oct-26-03 03:14 PM by louis-t
by the 'Svengali Right' tells us it is a good thing that the terrorists are now in Iraq. 'Better there than here' is the current rant. Has anyone asked the battered Iraqi people if they want their country used as a battleground?
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 09:25 AM
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82. but, but, the soccer balls!
The Pentagon's distributing free soccer balls - why can't we hear more about that?!? :eyes:
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 03:43 PM
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63. to JudiLyn
Edited on Sun Oct-26-03 03:44 PM by louis-t
great photo! I like the alternate name better-the 'bro'. Funny stuff.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 05:59 AM
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80. Hi, louis-t
Never heard the alternate name before. Very smirk-worthy!

Good time to start posting at D.U. It'll get even more interesting as elections get closer. Many welcomes to D.U.! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :hi:
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BuckeFushe Donating Member (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 04:17 PM
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65. Iraqis Regret Wolfowitz Survived: widely held belief by many
"I wish Wolfowitz had been killed. I wish all Americans here would be killed," said Ali Hussein, a grocer in central Baghdad. "The Americans are not human beings, they are monsters. They lied to the Iraqi people."

Think we should let them know the Bushscum misadministration lied to us too?




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jonoboy Donating Member (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 06:57 PM
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66. a good laugh out of tragedy
Brig. Gen. Marty Dempsey, commander of the 1st Armored Division, later told Wolfowitz: "I don't think this was targeted at you. I don't want you to take this personally."
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s33 Donating Member (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 07:32 PM
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72. hmm
Iraqis regret one of the leading Jewish-American war lobbyists survived?Weird!
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