Shades Of Somalia - Liberators or Enemies?

[RBHam]

Iraqi Teens Pummel Bloodied U.S. Soldiers

Iraqi Teens Pummel Bloodied U.S. Soldiers
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By MARIAM FAM, Associated Press Writer

MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi teenagers dragged two bloodied U.S. soldiers from a wrecked vehicle and pummeled them with concrete blocks Sunday, witnesses said, describing the killings as a burst of savagery in a city once safe for Americans.

Another soldier was killed by a bomb and a U.S.-allied police chief was assassinated.

The U.S.-led coalition also said it grounded commercial flights after the military confirmed that a missile struck a DHL cargo plane that landed Saturday at Baghdad International Airport with its wing aflame.

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[Punkingal]

1. Pummeled them with concrete blocks....

OMG! This is just a nightmare!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

7. Do a search sometime on what the Afghans were doing to the Soviet...

...during their war. Let's put it this way...prisoners were seldom taken by either side.

Cinder blocks in Iraq are just the beginning.

[Andromeda]

2. This incident is similar to ...

what happened in Somalia when the Blackhawk helicopter crashed and the young "warriors" dragged one of the dead crew members through the streets while everybody cheered. They took one crew member hostage, I believe his last name was Duran, and he was eventually released.

The savagery of this recent incident in Iraq was perpetrated by the same kinds of brutal gangs that terrorized Somalia.

We underestimated the opposition in Iraq just like we underestimated the opposition in Somalia. What we see as humanitarian they see as occupation by an enemy.

[NewJeffCT]

4. The difference

Is that we did not see images of the US soldiers in Iraq being dragged through the streets like we did in Mogadishu - which led to immediate calls from Republicans in Congress to bring our troops home.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. "Humanitarian"?? Do you mean like the 2000 pound bombs...

...we dropped all over most of the country killing civilians in what the good folks at the Pentagon call "collateral damage"?

Or do you mean like when our troops recently leveled houses and took entire families prisoner?

Or maybe you're referring to the twelve years of sanctions which led to the death of thousands of babies and young children?

Then again, maybe you're referring to the fact that that every single Iraqi has lost at least one family member, or knew at least one person that has been killed, during this war brought on by the lies of the NeoCons.

How is any of what the Iraqis are dealing with now better than what they had under Saddam?

And don't get me started on the "forgotten war" in Afghanistan.

And I also grieve particularly hard for the families of the American troops that have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. What possible "humanitarian" purpose did they serve?

[ozymandius]

3. Can you imagine the utter hatred that fueled these acts?

We have a $400 billion Defense bill and they are killing us with donkey carts, homemade bombs, knives and concrete blocks.

This war is lost. We need to get used to the idea.

[slinkerwink]

5. that's just sad