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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 04:53 PM
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Iraqi lawmakers protest ‘humiliating’ treatment by U.S

Iraqi lawmakers protest ‘humiliating’ treatment by U.S.

The LA Times reports that “(d)ozens of Iraqi lawmakers walked out of parliament Wednesday to protest what they view as overly aggressive and humiliating treatment by U.S. soldiers when representatives enter Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, where the legislature is located:

“I and many of my colleagues who live outside the Green Zone face a lot of problems,” said Feryad Rawandozi, a high-ranking official with the Kurdish parliamentary bloc. U.S. soldiers “are very arrogant and impolite when they talk to us, especially with those who don’t speak English.”

Legislators, like everyone else entering the Green Zone, must submit to a gauntlet of physical searches, and allow their vehicles to be inspected by bomb-sniffing dogs. They must line up with the throngs of other residents and employees seeking to enter the area, which is also headquarters to U.S. operations in Iraq. The process can take up to two hours.

“If we come off as aggressive, it might be a cultural thing,” claimed Army Maj. Anton Alston, a spokesman for Multi-National Force-Iraq.


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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 05:08 PM
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1. "If we come off as aggressive, it might be a cultural thing"
It might also be that you are power-drunk bullies and racist bigots.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 05:32 PM
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2. I lived in that part of the world and I was some what red in the
face at what so many Western people did to these people in their own country. Since my husband ad I never acted like that we went to these peoples home and got along very well. I do not wish to even say what most of the Southern AM. called these people and often to their face. It was a real shame. Some how these people just knew we, my husband and I, liked them so we where fine. They were very nice people to people who treaded them fair. Plus it was their country. I was hardly going to re-do their culture and it was really not my business to re-do it in to my culture. That seems to be very hard for many Am. to face. They always think they do thing right so every one else should do it their way. Plus give a few young men some power and guns and they will act like young men every place. fresh and pushie. The police in Saudi were the same with us AM. and one had to cross their path at every turn. Must be hard when you are in your own country and the 'police' are from another country.
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