Fallujah's Refugees Won't Return Home, Won't Vote

[no_to_war_economy]

... But he says he has travelled twice to his family's homes and tells a disturbing story of what he found. "The first time I visited after the Americans occupied the city, our main house was standing. It had survived. All the things inside, beds, furniture, rugs, were safe. But when I went back a week later, it had been destroyed. Many other houses were in the same state.

"They survived the American-resistance battles intact but were then destroyed afterwards. Why? People there told me they saw movie cameras and that the Americans fired shells into the empty houses and that they were making some kind of film."

http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk01142005.html

[NYC]

1. One of Iraq's major cities will not participate in the election.

What kind of democracy is that?

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[Sparkly]

4. What's your point? n/t

[Mikimouse]

6. Maybe he recognized some of the troops...

as some that were involved in war crimes?

[MARALE]

7. You have been watching too much Fox

and listening to Rush to much. Here, you don't make statements like that without offereing evidence.

[manic expression]

9. Those people were attacking

foreign invaders (mercenaries, no less). Was it OK for US planes to mutilate innocent Iraqi men, women and children (Willie Pete and Napalm in Fallujah, by the way)? You idiot, you think Iraqis being strung up in internment camps is OK, while Iraqis who take their anger out on the very people who are oppressing their people are wrong. In my opinion, the mutilation of the American corpses is the embodiment of how Iraqis feel about the US. If the Iraqis are so angry at us that they would do something like that, maybe you should THINK about WHY (thinking, what a concept!)!

Iraqis should fight the US any way they can. They are fighting unjustified foreign aggressors and oppressors, and they are justified in doing so.

Fallujah was actually the one place in central Iraq that Saddam could not get any control over. There are NO Ba'athists fighting in Fallujah, only religious groups. Get a clue before trying to say something next time.

If the Fallujah brigade was so bad, why did we let them run the city after destroying it (for the first time)????

[HeeBGBz]

3. Anyone else think it strange

That Iraqis over here and in other countries are able to vote in this election, but those who have endured the carnage probably won't vote.

Welcome to DU, Portal. Enjoy your stay.

[no_to_war_economy]

5. absolutely

first and only election where there will be more votes outside the country then inside

[madrchsod]

8. he`s gone and we never knew him,sad isn`t it.

he`s gone back to freeperland. are they all this stupid?