Unbelievable how we are mislead by our military propaganda! Big headlines about the "insugents" we captured today, small headlines about those killed during demontrations, and then this, from someone who is actually in Iraq. Each time I read articles from those who are actually there, like this one, I want to cry even more for the Iraqis, and what we have brought upon them, and for what our troops will have to deal with mentally and emotionally when they finally come home...at least those who have some conscience...
"On BBC we watch footage of Americans gunning down Iraqis as they ran from the armor clad vehicles. Gunned down in the street as they tried to run away, red tracer bullets leaving laser-like trails as they flew past bodies falling upon the cement.
Unbelievable how we are mislead by our military propaganda! Big headlines about the "insugents" we captured today, small headlines about those killed during demontrations, and then this, from someone who is actually in Iraq. Each time I read articles from those who are actually there, like this onee, I want to cry even more for the Iraqis, and what we have brought upon them, and for what our troops will have to deal with mentally and emotionally when they finally come home...at least those who have some conscience...
16 December 2003 -- Hamudi sits slumped in a chair at the lobby of Funduk Agadir. Normally all smiles with loads of energy, his face is deeply troubled. He sits staring at the table before him.
I ask him,
"Hamudi, what is wrong? You look very tired."
He slowly looks up at me and responds.
"You want the truth? I am very, very scared."
He tells me he fears civil war now in Iraq. Within two or three months if things continue like this.
Later we are watching some footage from demonstrations, and a funeral service in Al-Aahimiyah today. The funeral service was for an Iraqi killed, one of many, a few days ago by Americans. Last night the locals report 24 Iraqis killed for demonstrating.
On BBC we watch footage of Americans gunning down Iraqis as they ran from the armor clad vehicles. Gunned down in the street as they tried to run away, red tracer bullets leaving laser-like trails as they flew past bodies falling upon the cement. This was told to be in Ramadi, by the BBC, then later the same footage was told to have occurred in Falluja. As usual, the truth is hard to come by, even here, unless it is witnessed personally -- or residents of an entire neighborhood or city are all telling the same story.
This when, according to Iraqis converging around journalists today at the scene amidst pools of blood and pieces of US military uniforms, remnants from the night before when the fighting commenced in earnest. Pent up rage towards the occupiers was being released in the form of RPG's and machine guns firing towards the Americans. Three Hummers are reported to have been destroyed. Black scars mark where they were hit, burned into the pavement.
The US military have reported no deaths from this area last night.
The next day we watch as a man holds up a US MP armband, then throws it to the ground and stomps on it angrily. He picks it back up, holds it in front of the camera, then throws it back down for the stamping of the crowd.
Other pieces of US soldiers gear and provisions are scattered about on the ground.
Young boys stand over a pool of what they say is American blood, spitting in it and hailing Saddam.
Do we need yet another reason for Iraqis who have been attacked by US soldiers to be enraged? Unfortunately, there are more. One being that the Americans sealed off the hospital in Al-Aadimiyah today after removing all the bodies of Iraqis killed last night in the fighting. The wounded were taken directly to prison. No journalists were allowed inside."
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