Live From Baghdad: Ordinary Iraqi Speaks Out: “The U.S. Has No Intention

Of Leaving: MUST WATCH!

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/05/1535215

Link to stream:
http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2003/nov/128/dn20031105a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=10:01.8

As the Baghdad headquarters of U.S. occupation forces comes under fire, we turn to a voice rarely heard in the U.S. media – that of an ordinary Iraqi. We go to Baghdad to hear from retired engineer Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar.
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A US soldier and a British Royal Marine were killed in Iraq and the Baghdad headquarters of the coalition authority came under fire in another attack against the US-led occupation that wounded three people.
A judge investigating members of Saddam Hussein's former government was shot dead yesterday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul -- the second such killing in as many days.

Meanwhile Spain--a staunch US ally--announced it was pulling most of its diplomats and experts out of the Iraq.

The death of the US soldier pushed the US toll to more than140 since May 1, when President Bush declared major hostilities over. The number of Iraqis killed remains a number impossible to calculate.

For perspective on the latest developments in Iraq we now turn to a voice that is rarely heard in the US media and that is one of an ordinary Iraqi living in Baghdad. Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar is a retired engineer.
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A perspective you won't hear from the major news sources. This man is calling names.

Iraqis really KNOW all this?
The more they know, the more they will get furious.
He knows the people in the council really are.

to the anger of the Iraqis.

The fact that he has a picture of Rummy and Saddam shaking hands hanging in his living room says a hell of a lot.

Interesting stuff.

Still..

I don't think Bush will let this be over until he's started WW3.

of the Neocon PLAN. Afghanistan was destroyed and left in ruins,
Iraq came next and 6000 years of Iraqi culture,with thousands of dead
Iraqi men, women and children. A fruitless occupation--because
the Iraqi people are not willing to be enslaved. As we in America
would do, we would rather be dead than give up our country. The
PLAN was to loot and pillage and rob Iraq of Oil Reserves, turning
the country into McDonalds with camel-parking, then on to Syria
Iran etc. But it, apparently is not going to happen. If the "war"
ends in defeat, WWIII will end also. Bring the troops home to
defend America in America for America. Give the Iraqis their
country back - what's left of it.

it was in ruins long before we sent troops.

sure, it was due to the cold war & our pouring money & weapons into the country, but the russians & muslim fanaticas had SOMETHING to do with it, no?

him speak? The American arrogance and total disregard for the people that we used as pawns to fight the Russians is appaling.

We did not care about the Afghans. We cared about destroying the Russians. We supported whatever was more expedient for us. Once they were used up, we left.

This has been done by other super-powers before, but we cannot try to portray ourselves as the "do-gooders" of the world because we are not.