Iraqis love Cindy Sheehan

The people of Fallujah love Cindy Sheehan," declared Farouk Abd-Muhammed, a candidate for National Assembly in Dec. 15 elections, referring to the mother of a slain Marine who became a U.S. antiwar activist. He spoke Tuesday at a pre-election meeting of local leaders in Fallujah, 35 miles west of Baghdad, scene of the largest U.S. offensive of the war in November 2004.

Abd-Muhammed described watching recent television reports with his family showing Americans waving banners that read "Stop the war in Iraq." "I salute the American people because we know after watching them on satellite that they are ready to leave," Abd-Muhammed said.

An Iraqi journalist for the country's state-sponsored al-Sabah newspaper, waiting with Nash for the meeting to start. "In Saddam's day they would have slaughtered a sheep for visits like this," he told the captain, referring to the ousted president, Saddam Hussein. "Today I think maybe they will slaughter you."

"We hoped we would see an already made plan and not discuss it any more," another sheik, Anwar Khirbeet, said of the talk of American withdrawal. "People here are against the occupation forces. We frankly consider the current government as a terrorist government."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/29/AR2005112901850.html

in Fallujah.

If what we have heard about what happened to their city is correct, re: women and children and all, could you blame them for considering us to be the terrorists? Would we feel any differently if it were our hometown?

We just got back from seeing these three films...

OCCUPATION: DREAMLAND
Unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraq city of Fallujah during the winter of 2004. A collective study of the soldiers unfolds as they patrol an environment of low-intensity conflict creeping steadily towards catastrophe.
Directors: Garrett Scott and Ian Olds

OCCUPATION:
Dreamland recalls Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, except with real kids."
- Adam Sternbergh, New York Magazine
CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE: The Untold Story of Fallujah
A joint production between Iraqi and American filmmakers, Caught in the Crossfire was filmed un-embedded, outside the influence of the military or corporate media. Shot between November 2004 and April 2005, the film captures the conditions experienced by civilians as they endured the consequences of Operation Phantom Fury and became refugees outside the eyes and care of the international community. A new film, the documentary was just released in October.
Directors: Mark Manning and unnamed Iraqis

FALLUJAH: THE HIDDEN MASSACRE

Just released, this Italian documentary interviews U.S. military and citizens from Fallujah about the use of white phosphorus. "A rain of fire fell on the city. The people struck by this multi-coloured substance started to burn; we found people dead with strange wounds, the bodies burned but the clothes intact," states Iraqi biologist Mohamad Tareq, from the film.
Directors: Sigfrido Ranucci and Maurizio Torrealta


I am so blown away, I can barely speak. The second one especially, Caught in the Crossfire, I cried all the way through. Unbelievable. If George and his Gang aren't ultimately tried for war crimes, there is no justice in the world.

the other two....

I guarantee. It's only 17 minutes long but it just stays with you. I can't stop thinking about it. And I'm really angry.

justice in the world."

What can anyone of us that truly care and understand say?

How much more needless murder of innocent individuals be tolerated in the name of oil and greed? HAVEN'T WE BEEN GIVEN ENOUGH?????

to regain the trust America once had.

How can anyone take America seriously anymore?