TheAZCowBoy
03-30-03, 10:07 AM
Robert Fisk, of the Independent, a respected English news source, is one of the most experienced and respected journalist specializing on the geo-political Middle East history and in this report we learn about the: "Other side of the story."
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IT WAS AN OUTRAGE, AN OBSCENITY
By: Robert Fisk in Baghdad
[The Independent, UK - 27 March 2003]:
It was an outrage, an obscenity. The severed hand on the metal door, the swamp of blood and mud across the road, the human brains inside a garage, the incinerated, skeletal remains of an Iraqi mother and her three small children in their still-smouldering car.
Two missiles from an American jet killed them all – by my estimate, more than 20 Iraqi civilians, torn to pieces before they could be 'liberated' by the nation that destroyed their lives. Who dares, I ask myself, to call this 'collateral damage'? Abu Taleb Street was packed with pedestrians and motorists when the American pilot approached through the dense sandstorm that covered northern Baghdad in a cloak of red and yellow dust and rain yesterday morning.
It's a dirt-poor neighbourhood, of mostly Shia Muslims, the same people whom Messrs Bush and Blair still fondly hope will rise up against President Saddam Hussein, a place of oil-sodden car-repair shops, overcrowded apartments and cheap cafés. Everyone I spoke to heard the plane. One man, so shocked by the headless corpses he had just seen, could say only two words.
"Roar, flash," he kept saying and then closed his eyes so tight that the muscles rippled between them. more... (http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391165)
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TheAZCowBoy comments,
The Iraqi army has begun to assert itself against the 800 lb, US gorilla ( and "lapdog" Toadie Blair's soldier boys ) to Defense Secretay Donald Rumsfeld chagrin. In doing so, the Iraqi Republican army begins to show itself as another Palestinian rag doll overcoming adversity to mount a formidable fight against "The toughest, meanest army in the world--and almost as tough as the killers of the Israel's murderous IDF.
Which reminds me of a certain observation made by Charlie Reese, ( now retired ) editor of the of the Orlando Sentiniel, in 1998,
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight--its the size of the fight in the dog!"
God bless all the combatants in this idiotic war--too bad the real culprits, Saddam and the head CHICKEN HAWK--George W. Bush, can't be put into a 12' ring and allowed to "wail" on each other until there is a declared winner.
I would put my money on Saddam--given the cowardly draft dodging Bass Terd we have had forcibly "slam dunked" into the oval room by the US Supreme Court righties. :eek:
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IT WAS AN OUTRAGE, AN OBSCENITY
By: Robert Fisk in Baghdad
[The Independent, UK - 27 March 2003]:
It was an outrage, an obscenity. The severed hand on the metal door, the swamp of blood and mud across the road, the human brains inside a garage, the incinerated, skeletal remains of an Iraqi mother and her three small children in their still-smouldering car.
Two missiles from an American jet killed them all – by my estimate, more than 20 Iraqi civilians, torn to pieces before they could be 'liberated' by the nation that destroyed their lives. Who dares, I ask myself, to call this 'collateral damage'? Abu Taleb Street was packed with pedestrians and motorists when the American pilot approached through the dense sandstorm that covered northern Baghdad in a cloak of red and yellow dust and rain yesterday morning.
It's a dirt-poor neighbourhood, of mostly Shia Muslims, the same people whom Messrs Bush and Blair still fondly hope will rise up against President Saddam Hussein, a place of oil-sodden car-repair shops, overcrowded apartments and cheap cafés. Everyone I spoke to heard the plane. One man, so shocked by the headless corpses he had just seen, could say only two words.
"Roar, flash," he kept saying and then closed his eyes so tight that the muscles rippled between them. more... (http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391165)
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TheAZCowBoy comments,
The Iraqi army has begun to assert itself against the 800 lb, US gorilla ( and "lapdog" Toadie Blair's soldier boys ) to Defense Secretay Donald Rumsfeld chagrin. In doing so, the Iraqi Republican army begins to show itself as another Palestinian rag doll overcoming adversity to mount a formidable fight against "The toughest, meanest army in the world--and almost as tough as the killers of the Israel's murderous IDF.
Which reminds me of a certain observation made by Charlie Reese, ( now retired ) editor of the of the Orlando Sentiniel, in 1998,
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight--its the size of the fight in the dog!"
God bless all the combatants in this idiotic war--too bad the real culprits, Saddam and the head CHICKEN HAWK--George W. Bush, can't be put into a 12' ring and allowed to "wail" on each other until there is a declared winner.
I would put my money on Saddam--given the cowardly draft dodging Bass Terd we have had forcibly "slam dunked" into the oval room by the US Supreme Court righties. :eek:
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