Scenes of US "Victory" in al-Qaim. Operation Matador ends...

[leftchick]

and more villages are destroyed. Doesn't this make you so proud?

:sarcasm:

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Neighbours inspect houses destroyed during fighting in Rommana village near Qaim, about 320 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of Baghdad in Iraq Sunday, May 15, 2005. U.S. forces have been engaged in operation Matador in the area, one of the largest U.S. campaigns since militants were driven out of their Fallujah stronghold in November. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Email Photo Print Photo

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Residents inspect a destroyed armoured vehicle near Rommana village near Qaim, about 320 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of Baghdad in Iraq Sunday, May 15, 2005. U.S. forces have been engaged in operation Matador in the area, one of the largest U.S. campaigns since militants were driven out of their Fallujah stronghold in November. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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Neighbours inspect houses destroyed during fighting in Rommana village near Qaim, about 320 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of Baghdad in Iraq Sunday, May 15, 2005. U.S. forces have been engaged in operation Matador in the area, one of the largest U.S. campaigns since militants were driven out of their Fallujah stronghold in November. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

[emanymton]

1. Classic Example Of Having To Destroy A City To Save It?

[DistressedAmerican]

2. Thankls You For Posting!!! More Of These Images Need To Get Around!

Here's another atrocity for which there is blood on our hands...

[leftchick]

5. It has been bloody but may have a good ending soon....

I just read in LBN that some of "the boilers" government official have been expelled in some places. I hope the crowds get their hands on him.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4549873.stm

[VOX]

3. "Mission Accomplished," as often as "necessary."

Under BushCo, "spreading freedom" always involves much civilian death and destruction. :grr:

[DrDebug]

4. And they have to rebuild for the second time

First destroyed 1991 by U.S. bombing

Located nearly 400km northwest of Baghdad near the Syrian border, al-Qaim was reportedly the site of Iraq's refined Uranium Ore production from 1984 through 1990; it was completely destroyed during a 1991 US bombing campaign during the Gulf War.

The "Chemical Fertilizer Complex" was originally built by Belgian contractors in January 1976, and by 1982 it was processing Phosphate from the nearby Akashat mine. That year, Iraq decided to build a Uranium extraction facility on the same site, and hired Belgian contractors Mebshem to build the structure, completed in 1984.

Unused Uranium from al-Qaim was stored in nearby Tuwaitha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaim

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Well, those buildings were being "stabilized" by our glorious military.

Not to mention those buried underneath them. Of course the bodies were those of "terrorists", or "insurgents", or "Baathists", or "Islamists", or..well, certainly not people.