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Originally posted by 4thDoctorWhoFan
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
True...but anybody recall that one of the reasons that the good guys charged into the first gulf war...one of the biggies as far as justifying the intervention
Umm....Yes, Saddam invaded Kuwait.
July 25, 1990 - Presidential Palace - Baghdad
U.S. Ambassador Glaspie - We have no opinion on your Arab - Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960's, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America. (Saddam smiles)www.whatreallyhappened.com...
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck and this time around it's weapons of mass destruction. They were lies, too, so nobody has a moral high ground on propaganda.
Originally posted by 4thDoctorWhoFan
** sigh **
For starters, Saddam did have WMD as he used chemical weapons on his own people.
Rumsfeld's Handshake Deal with Saddam www.commondreams.org...
Secondly, Bush was only reporting what the intel agencies were telling him. Bush did not intentionally lie, the intel reports were 'supposedly' wrong.
Iraq WMD Lies:The Words of Mass Deception-The Lie of the Century www.whatreallyhappened.com...
This current story seems to have legs of a sort
No, it doesn't. It is Zero legs, nada....nothing.
The soldier was part of a joint Iraqi-U.S. patrol undertaking security duty in al-Haramat area, western Mosul, on December 26. When the patrol came under firing attack, the soldier opened fire at U.S. soldiers and killed two of them," Brig. Mutaa Habib al-Khazraji told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
"The patrol soldiers managed to arrest him and he is now under the Iraqi side's investigative custody," Khazraji added.
The U.S. side denied that this Iraqi soldier opened fire at U.S. servicemen because they sexually harassed an Iraqi girl, affirming that the scene where the incident took place was void of any civilians.
On December 28, 2007 the U.S. army had announced that two of its soldiers died of wounds sustained when they came under light arms' fire during military operations in Mosul.
www.aswataliraq.info...
Originally posted by greeneyedleo
reply to post by sadchild01
What? I thought they kicked and beat up a pregnant woman. Now they are saying they sexually harassed a girl.
Lord have mercy. They cant even keep their lies straight.
Buch of phoney bologna. (how I wish I could say I want I really am thinking)
Politics and Security
Killer of 2 U.S. soldiers belongs to armed group – army
Ninewa - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 06 /01 /2008 Time 9:35:29
Ninewa, Jan 4, (VOI) – The Iraqi soldier who killed two U.S. soldiers in Mosul 10 days ago was a member of an armed group who infiltrated into a joint Iraqi-U.S. force, the commander of the Iraqi army's 2nd Division said.
"The soldier was part of a joint Iraqi-U.S. patrol undertaking security duty in al-Haramat area, western Mosul, on December 26. When the patrol came under firing attack, the soldier opened fire at U.S. soldiers and killed two of them," Brig. Mutaa Habib al-Khazraji told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
"The patrol soldiers managed to arrest him and he is now under the Iraqi side's investigative custody," Khazraji added.
The U.S. side denied that this Iraqi soldier opened fire at U.S. servicemen because they sexually harassed an Iraqi girl, affirming that the scene where the incident took place was void of any civilians.
On December 28, 2007 the U.S. army had announced that two of its soldiers died of wounds sustained when they came under light arms' fire during military operations in Mosul.
www.aswataliraq.info...
Originally posted by GT100FV
reply to post by sadchild01
Let me get this straight- you are saying that because the military is saying that there was no woman involved with the shooting, there must have been a woman involved, and this is evidence of them lying? Did it ever occur to you that these folks were innocent, and that's the reason the military is denying the allegation, or is that not in the realm of possibility with you? What it looks like to me is that you want to believe that the incident took place just like the Arab media(or public affairs for Al Qaeda/Hezbollah/fill in the blank, if you wish), rather than even entertain the thought that an insurgent infiltrator took advantage of an opportunity to kill Americans. Evidence of lying would be corroboration, eye witnesses, a pregnant woman, etc... not denial of guilt due to lack of these things.
Evidence of lying would be corroboration, eye witnesses, a pregnant woman, etc... not denial of guilt due to lack of these things.
It would come as no surprise, if an entire generation of Iraqi boys were born to bear the name of Caesar Saadi Al-Jibouri, the Iraqi soldier who recently killed three American soldiers after seeing them kicking down the door of a house in Mosul and assaulting a pregnant woman.
Angered by the actions, it has been reported that Caesar opened fire on the US troops and killed two soldiers and a captain but now, like many other Iraqi’s in the “democratic” country, Caesar is languishing in a Government prison, although his actions have not gone unnoticed.
The Lebanese newspaper Al-akhbar have reported, that in the streets of Mosul, graffiti has appeared on walls proclaiming “Well done Caesar!” with groups also distributing leaflets sending their greetings and congratulations to the Iraqi soldier.
Praise has also been given by the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq, claiming that Caesar is a “hero” and have called upon the Iraqi police force and Army to look upon his response to repression as being that of a “role model”.
But what is rarely debated within the West, is where such reactions do come from and undoubtedly some will claim this is an “isolated incident” and bares no connection to the fact, that inside of Iraq, there currently exists a minimum of five million orphaned children.
Unlike the empty promises and false allegations of Western leaders, the killing of the US soldiers was a direct response to the death, destruction and misery which the US and UK have brought with them to Iraq but more importantly, it was an act of defence and a reflection of the reality which Al-Jibouri and millions of Iraqis are facing daily.
The British and American governments have ignored the repeated warnings, which have been given to them, such as those by The Independent's State of the Nation report, which stated that “more young people today are illiterate in Iraq than in previous generations,” and that “Almost a quarter of children between the ages of six months and five years suffer from malnutrition.” (23/6/2005).
www.globalresearch.ca...
Abizaid, who was formerly the Commander of the United States Central Command, quickly established a connection between the two topics.
“Of course it’s about oil, we can’t really deny that,” Abizaid said of the Iraq campaign early on in the talk.
“We’ve treated the Arab world as a collection of big gas stations,” Mr.Friedman said. “Our message to them is: Guys, keep your pumps open, prices low, be nice to the Israelis and you can do whatever you want out back.
daily.stanford.edu...