US troops risk being "like Israelis" -Iraqi royal

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Sat Aug-16-03 11:51 AM
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US troops risk being "like Israelis" -Iraqi royal

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/4944520.htm

KUWAIT, Aug 16 (Reuters) - U.S. troops must step back and let Iraqis run their own affairs or risk being equated in Arab minds with the Israeli forces in Palestinian territory, a leading member of Iraq's former royal house said.

"What we want is to change the relationship between the coalition forces and our people," Sharif Ali bin Hussein said in an interview published in Kuwait on Saturday.

He stressed, however, that the Americans should remain for now to provide stability:

"On the basis that they should not interfere in our constitutional or political issues...and that they are our guests, not that we are prisoners in the hands of these forces," the former exile told the Gulf state's al-Qabas newspaper.

"What I fear most is that the picture will be similar to that of the Israeli forces in the Palestinian lands," said the 47-year-old London banker who returned to Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein to promote the restoration of the monarchy.

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alfredo

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Sat Aug-16-03 12:33 PM
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1. Best the Bush cabal listen,

He's telling the truth. I think it is too late for perceptions to change.

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Sat Aug-16-03 01:27 PM
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2. Thought they were already equated with the Israelis.

I mean, they are here.

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bodhisattava

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Sat Aug-16-03 10:35 PM
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3. This is precisely what the Jewish intellectuals of the PNAC cabal

Wolfowitz,Perle, Kristol and others wanted to happen so that the United States will be closely tied to Israel against the Arabs/Muslims.The more the Arabs resent the U.S. role against them
in cahoots with the jews, the more the Israelis and the Jews will be able to demonize the arabs.

When it all boils down, watch for the biggest ethnic cleansing of the
Palestinian people out of the West Bank and Gaza into Iraq so that the Apartheid regime in Israel can claim that all terrorism in Israel has been eradicated.

The Untermenschen of the past have become the Ubermenschen of the present. The PNAC document is the Mein Kampf of the jewish intellectuals and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians will be the Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem, Israeli Style.

History is going to repeat itself with a vengenace, with a new cast of characters.

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QuietStorm

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Sat Aug-16-03 10:41 PM
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4. It's an Occupation

based on Israel anti-terror strategy. Richard Perle has had an open door to Israel along with Wolfowitz. What more do we need to call it? Strategy purveyed in America with Israel off stage intelligence support. Of course I do not know how much in the way of funds Israel has thrown on the table. Anybody know?

"What I fear most is that the picture will be similar to that of the Israeli forces in the Palestinian lands"

are we not already close but for US troops seem to be a bit more panicky. not as steady in the face of an Occupation, perhaps the IDF should send in some back up.

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bodhisattava

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Sat Aug-16-03 11:54 PM
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5. How Can Israel throw any money on the table for the Iraqi

Occupation when it is a country living on the American dole?

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QuietStorm

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Sun Aug-17-03 01:04 AM
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6. I was being

Edited on Sun Aug-17-03 01:06 AM by QuietStorm

sarcastic!! I feel the least they can do is send in the IDF to replace US troops. Would that be too much to ask? (end sarcasm) Of course I realize this serves the Texas boys as well. And also has some to do with their overall strategy of breaking OPEC.

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