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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 04:39 PM
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PHOTOS: American Soldiers kick in Iraqi's doors, search homes, ELECTIONS !
Edited on Mon Jan-17-05 04:49 PM by diamond14


American Soldiers winning hearts and minds of the Iraqi VOTERS....January 17, 2005 PHOTOS...showing the Iraqis how to run an election, and encouraging DEMOCRACY...









demanding that this woman OPEN THE DOOR



kicking in doors



breaking doors down






An Iraqi police inspect damage inside a polling station in Basra that was hit by mortar shell. Insurgents killed 15 people, mainly Iraqi security forces, in the Sunni Muslim belt north of Baghdad, as the top US commander in Iraq predicted violence would disrupt landmark elections.(AFP/Essam Al-Sudani)




all these photos came from Yahoo...go to left sidebar...then Slideshow, then IRAQ
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=702
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 04:45 PM
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1. Steward had video a couple weeks ago
Daily Show had a segment of soldiers kinking in / ripping off doors.

Guess this is how we are winning hearts and planting the seeds of democracy.

Can you say "search warrant" and "probable cause"?
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fob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 04:49 PM
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2. Maybe that's why bush* fired those gay translators, since they couldn't
translate those phrases, they didn't make it into Bremers Iraqi Law Book.

That and he didn't want his receipts to obl translated.
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 05:04 PM
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3. This "model" could easily come to AMERICA...to YOUR neighborhood


as Americans STAND UP to stop the reTHUGlican election cheating, there are few options left for WINNING, other than military enforcement of the vote....


be afraid...be VERY AFRAID.....



are you STANDING UP in Washington DC on January 20th??? Tell bush* that we don't want this !!!
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 05:12 PM
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4. I Hope You're all watching
the election PR on MSM. It's now about overseas Iraqis voting in the Iraq election, while the majority of Iraqis are under siege in their own homes. What an awful world we live in.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 07:26 PM
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6. This does NOT work.
DOES. NOT. WORK.
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 05:26 PM
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5. Just imagine
Just imagine if you will a comely little Baptist town in East Texas.

Now imagine if occupying soldiers from a foreign army, who subscribed to a foreign religion, busted down those people's doors in midnight raids, searched their homes without warrants, imposed curfews, rounded up all the young men for random reasons, abused and tortured them in prisons and mocked their Christian beliefs. What do you think they would do? I know Americans, and I know Texans. They would fight like hell to drive the occupiers out of their country and their town.
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newsguyatl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 07:30 PM
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7. freedom is on the march!
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theresistance Donating Member (595 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 07:46 PM
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8. And arrest them , detain them in Saddam Hussein's jails, torture them,
shoot them ,bomb them...I'm not sure what other think, but these elections seem totally illegitimate since its been created by an illegal foreign invasion and occupation.
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 07:50 PM
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9. the Election Posters are so bizarre....so totally out of cultural context

guess these election posters were just put up for the faux-news crowd....it's all so very ghastly....
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NervousRex Donating Member (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 08:07 PM
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10. Neo-Fascist GOTV
Vote, or die...you choose.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:17 AM
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11. definition of insurgent . . .
an Iraqi national thoroughly pissed off that his/her country has been invaded, obliterated, and occupied . . .
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Gay Ranger Donating Member (86 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:26 AM
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12. I would like to know...
what the context is behind the photos of those soldiers kicking those doors in and performing searches. I kicked in a few doors myself and we found numerous weapons caches and even some militia that had perpetrated some attacks on us. Rule of law, probable cause and search warrants mean little in a war zone. Especially when fighting an insurgency in an urban environment.
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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:31 AM
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13. Yo! This is just practice
I can see them doing this shit in the US by 2008.
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