US Marines gear up to 'cleanse' Mosul

[leftchick]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=2813&art_id=qw1100851020308B243&click_id=2813&set_id=1

~snip~


As fighting winds down in Fallujah, Iraqi commandos were set to storm rebel strongholds in the main northern city of Mosul, where US-led forces are trying to clear insurgents who overran police stations last week.

"The attempt by insurgents to intimidate and to create instability in Mosul has failed. Iraqi police and other security forces have re-established a firm control of the city," said Thair al-Nakib, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.

About 1 200 US soldiers and 1 600 Iraqi troops are taking part in the operation, launched Tuesday after insurgents attacked and torched police stations.

"We will seize all weapons that we find and cleanse this city of criminals and terrorists," said Major General Rashid Flaih of a special commando force sent from Baghdad to help restore order in Mosul.

'Cleanse'?!?...

[eleonora]

1. Yeah, cleanse. Might as well start calling it for what it is n/t

[0007]

2. How can 'ya clean with dirty hands?

Bring the troops home.

[leftchick]

3. good point...

visions of nazis keep running through my head....

[bowens43]

4. "re-established a firm control of the city"

Firm control. Weren't we supposed to be "liberating" the Iraqis from firm control?

Meet the new boss......

[Judi Lynn]

5. The blood lust is simply overwhelming.

Can't believe human beings would allow themselves to get this low. It's genuinely a matter of character, of spirit.

No one really buys the lies. It's impossible. Only very sick, twisted people would pretend any part of this is acceptible.

You can't recreate the truth. It just can't be done, rightwingers. Even you don't believe it.

Thanks, leftchick.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. Meanwhile, at the Hague, Slobodan Milosevic is going

:wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf:

[auburngrad82]

7. You mean like "ethnic cleansing"?

That sounds like a plan Bush would have come up with.

[leftchick]

8. exactly....

the US Military statements like this really fan the flames in the Arab world for even more US hatred. One can't help but wonder if that is indeed their intention.

[The White Tree]

9. Whoa, when I read this I had a Dune flashback

So I went and looked up the script from the movie.

EMPEROR (firmly)
I want fifty legions of Sardaukar on Arrakis at once.

SARDAUKAR OFFICER #1
Fifty legions?...(he looks at the other officers with worry)
That's our entire reserves as well.

EMPEROR
This is genocide... the deliberate and systematic destruction of all life on Arrakis.

Maybe we should start calling it Iraqis.
:crazy: