www.empirenotes.org...
This is a very interesting website created by a man who traveled to Iraq to cover the 'war on terror'. I heard this man speak in a radio show here
in Canada and took note of his website. I'am not sure how 'biased' it is, or the ligitimacy of his claims; this is something i'll look into later,
or, other members can probe.
Check it out.
Although this relatively indiscriminate killing of civilians may serve American military ends -- keeping the ratio of enemy dead to American soldiers
dead as high as possible -- in terms of political ends, it is a disaster. It is very difficult to explain to an Iraqi that a man fighting from his own
town with a Kalashnikov or RPG launcher is a “coward” and a “war criminal” (because, apparently, he should go out into the desert and wait to be
annihilated from the sky) but that someone dropping 2000-pound bombs on residential areas or shooting at ambulances because they may have guns in them
(even though they usually don’t) is a hero and is following the laws of war.
When I was here in January, there was a pervasive atmosphere of discontent, frustration, and anger with the occupation. But most people were still
just trying to ride it out, stay patient, and hope that things improved. The wanton brutality of the occupation has at long last put an end to that
patience.
Before, the occupation might have succeeded -- not in building real democracy, which was never the goal, but in cementing U.S. control of Iraq. It
cannot succeed now. The resistance in Fallujah will be beaten down, with the commission of more war crimes; if the United States invades Najaf, it
will be able to win militarily there as well. But from now on, no military victory will make Iraqis stop resisting.
Deep
Ps. He is a professor of 'something' in Ney York ! Yeah, yeah, i forgot !
Also, Check out this, it's a very good read.
www.empirenotes.org...
[edit on 16-11-2004 by ZeroDeep]
[edit on 16-11-2004 by ZeroDeep]
