Iraq Invades America

What If America Were Invaded and Occupied?
By Dahr Jamail, The Progressive. Posted December 21, 2007.

"Unembedded" journalist Dahr Jamail reviews Meeting Resistance. With video.

"Suppose Iraq invaded America. And an Iraqi soldier was on a tank passing through an American street, waving his gun at the people, threatening them, raiding and trashing houses. Would you accept that? This is why no Iraqi can accept occupation, and don't be surprised by their reactions," says "The Imam," a young man from a mixed Sunni-Shia family, as he explains the genesis of the insurgency in Iraq and its exponential growth.

He is one of the protagonists that Meeting Resistance presents as unmistakable evidence that the root cause of the conflict in Iraq is the occupation itself. The film has resistance fighters themselves tell their story.

Journalists-turned-filmmakers Molly Bingham and Steve Connors were compelled to film this documentary during their early reporting of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. They used the al-Adhamiya neighborhood of Baghdad to explore and depict an insurgency that has been caricatured by the Bush Administration.

Bingham, who has reported previously from Rwanda, the Gaza Strip, and Iran, was the official photographer to the Office of the Vice President of the United States from 1998 to 2001. She believes that it is imperative to understand the people within the resistance if the United States is to find a solution to the Iraq quagmire.

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http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/71253/

I'll bet their heads exploded before they could read your post. :rofl:

that the Iraqis would be as chickenshit as they are, and would lay down and begin licking boots and kissing butt, just as they would do when faced with greater force. A historian interviewed on CNN talked about how terrified the Chimpy/PNAC gang was after 9/11 and how they lost any semblance of rationality. (Sorry, forgot her name.) But they knew they had the full power of the US military and state apparatus and went into fight or flight panic. U-Boat commander Blitzer cut her off before she could elaborate, of course, but I suspect she might have gone on to comment on how that cowardice was used to direct Chimpy-Rice-Powell-etc into beginning the Iraq slaughter ("The Shock Doctrine" applied to the heads of state here.)

The whole history of these bloody disastrous years can only be understood as what one would expect from amoral greedy cowards. Amoral, obviously. Greedy, obviously. But their utter craven cowardice dictates the "how" of their strategy, such as it was.