US Destroy Homes of Iraqi Suspects

[wabeewoman]

" In a tactic reminiscent of Israeli crackdowns in the West Bank and Gaza, the US military has begun destroying the homes of suspected guerilla fighters in Iraq's Sunni Triangle, evaculating women and children, then leveling their houses with heavy weaponry."

"Family members at a house in the village of al Haweda said they were given 5 minutes before soldiers opened fire"

This is in the Tacoma News Tribune but they have no link to it on their web site. I searched for author Jeff Wilkinson (Knight Ridder Newspapes) but could not find the article. Please post the link if this was in your paper.

Comment: I can't believe we are doing this. This tactic is the main thing that has turned me against the Israeli's and it hasn't exactly stopped suicide bombings there!

[lefty_mcduff]

1. Hmm - Winning the hearts and minds.

Go Bush, Go Bush, YAAAAAAY Bush!

[loudnclear]

21. Gee, this works so well for Israel we must do the same.

That is why there is no peace in the ME today. Just think how people here feel when their home is destroyed by fire or flood. We have no proof of who these people are..they are "suspects." so we destroy the home of women and children and old people. I guess we don't give a damn, seeing how many homeless we have here in America.

[Barrett808]

2. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=226514

[wabeewoman]

5. Opps! Sorry.

Didn't see that one.

[GainesT1958]

3. Boy, Dub's sure caving in to Sharon's desires...

Right down to destroying homes of innocents to "retaliate". One question, though: how's destorying someone's home supposed to make them--or their family--STOP shooting at us? Suuure hasn't worked real well for the IDF in the West Bank!:eyes:

B-)

[Jacobin]

4. COOL! Ya mean like the Israelis do to the Palestinians???

Ya mean WE get to do that TOO??????????

Waaaaaay too cool. Can we use bulldozers? Phuleeze, I want us to use bulldozers too. I mean the dust, and rubble....its just, well its cool, that's all.

[beanball]

17. Did we lease those bulldozers

from our good friend Sharon at one million per bulldozer?we gave the lakud loonie money to buy those home destroyers and now we do the same unsavory thing,shame on you bush,may you live to see the error of your ways.

[drewb]

18. Sure, you all say those things up here...

How about coming down to the I/P forums and saying them...

A little balance down there would sure be nice once in a while...


ROCK ON USA, TEAR THAT MUTHA DOWN I D F STYLE!!!

[bridge]

6. Flatten the Sunni Triangle...

it's not like we have friends in Tikrit, Fallujah, and Balad...

[Rose Siding]

7. We should kill all those Iraqis

because they don't like us? Take a read through some history and see what they call the ones who flatten civilian homes and kill women and babies and little boys and old men indiscriminatly.

You can't believe they are a threat to you. You must know they never were. Is it just the killing that excites you? Is that what must happen before you will feel safe?

[ozymandius]

9. The story says they are flattening the homes of <<suspects>>.

Evidence of criminality weighs heavily against the soldiers who are destroying the homes of suspects - homes that are basic to their survival as human beings.

As for indescriminate levelling these towns: this is known as an international war crime. Above it all - we have no business being in Iraq.

[TolstoyAndy]

16. That's what I love too - just "suspects"

no due process, no proof.
:puke:
My other comments have already been posted by fellow evilDUers.

[arcane1]

10. al Qaeda didn't have friends in the WTC either

you agree with them flattening those buildings? :shrug:

[prolesunited]

14. Oh, darn!

bridge is already gone. Darn that alert button and the efficiency of the mods! :hi:

[Jacobin]

22. g-r-e-a-t idea!!!!!!!

Its only 24 million Arabs!!
We could drop a dozen or so nukes and then move the Semites in!!

Quick...call Herr Sharon. Maybe he hasn't thought of this.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. Welcome to Palestine.

[xxqqqzme]

11. was just watching

Mosaics on WorldLink...the Iranian segment featured this story w/ footage of women in the streets w/ children in arms, plus they reminded their viewers that the night was 'very cold', they also featured 'an elderly grandmother' w/ her hands bound??? what's up w/ that??? Don't these napoleon wannabes understand how this is all playing on ME televisions?

Iranian TV also had footage of American flag draped coffins being unloaded - first I've seen - wonder how they got the footage?

[BonjourUSA]

12. Some chidren died and were injured in this "opération"

the tv report which we saw is very hard.

I'm afraid many more "terrorists" or "resistants" or "rebels" have been enrolled after this kind of attack than killed

[Rose Siding]

13. I'm afraid that's how I would react.

At least, I'd want to fight back. You?

[wabeewoman]

15. Yes, one woman in the article

whose husband wasn't a suspect was arrested because he didn't turn in his son, who was a suspect and got away, said she had no son, no husband and no home. I just can't believe in just 3 years this country has fell so far. In the same paper as this story is a picture of a young widow and her twin baby boys that their father never got to see because he was killed in the last helicopter wreck in Iraq. It is just all so sad, such a stupid loss of life and property and so madening!

[Pastiche423]

19. Nightline had a piece about this last night

It was horrifying. An American officer (can't remember the rank), repeatedly told his troops - there's just one word you need to remember - DESTROY!

It showed our troops busting in doors, in the middle of the night, then tearing Iraqi civilian's homes apart. Because the troops did not speak their language, they would push people down, then stomp on their backs w/their boots.

I-can-not-support-troops-like-that.

[Lorien]

20. I can't believe we've become so inhuman

in such a short span of time! How is bulldozing "suspects" homes fit into a vision of a "democratic" and "free" iraq? How would any of us feel if the same were done here? Combine this with destroying their crops and I'm pretty damn close to moving to Canada in shame of my country. :-(