You know when your own stooges are bad mouthing you things are going to hell.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040409/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_fallujah_council&cid=1514&ncid=1473
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Angry members of the US-installed interim Iraqi Governing Council threatened to resign if American forces did not halt their bloody offensive in the restive Sunni Muslim town of Fallujah.
"If the Fallujah problem is not resolved peacefully in a way that preserves the dignity of its people, and if America does not fulfill its promises ... and if they insist on using excessive force, then I will submit my resignation," Ghazi Ajil al-Yawer, a Sunni Muslim council member, told AFP.
"How can a superpower like the United States put itself in a state of war with a small city like Fallujah. This is genocide," he said.
Adnan Pachachi, widely seen as the most pro-American member of the 25-member council, was likewise incensed by the violence in Fallujah.
"We consider the action carried out by US forces as illegal and totally unacceptable," Pachachi told the Dubai-based Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya.
"We denounce the military operations carried out by the American forces because in effect, it is (inflicting) collective punishment on the residents of Fallujah," said the octogenarian former Iraqi foreign minister.
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