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Wed Jun-21-06 11:25 AM
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The MESSAGE behind the factory kidnapping. |
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It is clear that;
1. All of these people are probably dead already.
2. This was to send a message; Collaborators are not safe.
We are now in a full-scale civil war against the occupation government. It is only going to get worse from here on.
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:26 AM
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1. If there was any doubt about a civil war.... |
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This should erase those doubts..
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:51 AM
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:28 AM
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Isn't THIS the last throes of the insurgency? :sarcasm:
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:30 AM
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3. Nah, it's that corner we just turned! |
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:36 AM
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7. That one called freedom? |
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:37 AM
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8. That was our fourth corner. Otherwise known as a circle! |
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:47 AM
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14. It's a quadrilateral ... better than unilateral or bilateral, right? |
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Wed Jun-21-06 04:57 PM
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28. I thought it was the turning tides in the desert? |
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:33 AM
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4. The death of Zarqawi was apparently a turning point... |
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but not a good one. It is clear that things are going from bad to worse.
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Wed Jun-21-06 12:06 PM
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19. yeah, more like tipping point |
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:34 AM
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5. What Iraq needs is a tax cut! |
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:42 AM
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Wed Jun-21-06 12:27 PM
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22. That would REALLY come in handy there... |
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and it would be something positive, for the GOP to report to their baser base!
I'm guessing that the media ran out of good things to report from Iraq, a long time ago.
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:35 AM
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6. Why do you presume they are dead, |
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instead of being held for ransom?
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:40 AM
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10. You cannot hide 100 people and hold them for ransom. |
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Just simply impossible, especially where there are helicopters with heat sensors that can see through roofs and walls.
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:46 AM
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13. Okay, I guess the helicopters would do it. |
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Otherwise, I would think you could just drive the bus to the middle of nowhere, and wait.
I wonder what people in Iraq are supposed to do. If they work, they are at risk of getting killed. If they don't work, do landlords evict people for nonpayment of rent? (Or banks foreclose on late mortgages.) Would people starve to death if they didn't work? Are they forced out into the chaos in search of a living?
I'm seriously wondering about the eviction part.
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:58 AM
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18. I think the issue here is that it is a state run factory... |
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Which is why I think it is a message.
But yeah, it SUCKS to be there and trying to earn a living, I am quite sure.
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Wed Jun-21-06 04:58 PM
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Beslan?
If they were being held for ransom, knowing where they are isn't isgoing to save them. It is useless unless you are saying the US military would just blow up where ever they were hiding without concern about killing the hostages.
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:39 AM
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9. Assuming it's the insurgents. |
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The "Iraqi police" under the "coalition government" are known for mass kidnappings as well.
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:44 AM
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But it is a government factory.
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Wed Jun-21-06 12:13 PM
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You don't think the government's going to have its own competing factions?
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:48 AM
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15. Does that mean it's now time to "execute" Saddam ?? |
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Wed Jun-21-06 12:14 PM
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21. It's too far from the midterms. |
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That will be in November.
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Wed Jun-21-06 11:54 AM
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17. One day they killed a bunch of garbage collectors,another some bakers. |
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This doesn't happen in a infant democracy,it happens in the chaos before an open civil war.
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Wed Jun-21-06 01:42 PM
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23. "Collaborator" is too strong a term here. |
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Iraq was fairly socialist under Saddam. They made consumer products, not military ones.
Partisans properly kill important collaborators, not everybody that could possibly be construed as one. Dogcatchers, street cleaners, and postal carriers are hardly the prototypical 'collaborator'. Although, in this case, they seem to be. But not only Shi'a that are collaborators in even this strong a sense are targeted.
However, not all collaborators are equally targeted. Trivially-ranked Sunni collaborators, well, they need to eat. High-ranking ones that are important, they're targeted. They need to die.
The appropriate message is, "Die Shi'a, Die."
Killing collaborators provides some sort of moral justification, albeit implicit. I am not going to justify such a weak attempt at such a weak justification of intended genocide.
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Wed Jun-21-06 03:23 PM
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24. They want us to think that it is all Shi'a vs Sunni. |
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But I think that is just propaganda. They hate each other, but it is the occupation government, and the occupiers, that they hate most.
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Wed Jun-21-06 03:24 PM
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25. I missed this - link? |
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Wed Jun-21-06 04:55 PM
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27. Your post is connected to why I am bemoaning the senate debate today... |
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The whole idea of a debate on the future of Iraq was just too depressing to me because of the banality of the senate to pretned that withdrawing troops was even a remote possibilty- not with their monstrosity of an Embassy being built there. The embassy is the largest US embassy in the world, a minature city within the city actually. With stories like the one you just posted, HOW is it even remotely possible to think that the US has any intention of withdrawing the troops? The corpwatch link I posted in another thread talks about the fact that anyone working with/for the US is now a target. Can anyone explain to me how this embassy will function withOUT massive US troop protection? that is why I called the entire debate a farce. God help those poor people and our troops. They are caught in the machinations of the most evil empire ever. As are we, the people. BHN
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