Bloody attack and shot at martyrdom - Insurgents are not Saddam supporters

[dArKeR]

Iraqis fighting occupation are called defenders of the faith

In an austere room with concrete floors and walls adorned with two renderings of Islam’s holiest shrine in Mecca, two brothers of Adnan Fahdawi pulled out a creased and torn green folder stuffed with the memorabilia of martyrdom.

THERE WAS a tag from the black body bag in which the 31-year-old Fahdawi’s body had been delivered to the police station. “Multiple GSW,” read the bloodstained card, using a shorthand label for gunshot wounds. Cause of death: “extrusion of brain matter.” Next, a picture of Fahdawi’s hard, bearded face. Smoldering eyes, hinting at determination, stared out over a caption that declared him a martyred hero. After that was a letter he and several others had written before they attacked U.S. forces under a full moon on July 15 near this Euphrates River town.
       “Today, we have sacrificed ourselves to defend our honor and pride,”...

http://msnbc.com/news/969506.asp?0cv=CA00

[KharmaTrain]

1. What Would You Do???

I constantly ask this question of anyone who defends this regime's mis-adventures in Iraq. If the tables were turned and our country/state was occupied by a larger, more powerful military, would you take up either armed or passive resistance?

Of course most wingnuts claim they'd take to the hills with their rifles, but the point is this regime has imposed itself on a nation with total disregard to their culture or national pride, it rubbed this war in the face of the Arab world and then dared both to "bring it on"...and we're supposed to be surprised that our troops aren't constantly being attacked?

By toppling Saddam, BushCo opened the door to all sorts of instability in the region that now spreads a "tear corridor" from the Bekaa Valley in the West direct to Bin Laden Hills in Pakistan. Nice goin', Junior! This gets to look more and more like Afghanistan every day.

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2. the arrogance of the u.s. to believe

they can impose their notions of democracy on the iraqis is as ahes in their mouths already -- and it's gonna get worse.
of course they want the u.s. out -- nobody wants to see their country occupied.

[dArKeR]

3. Arrogance or Ignorance? You can hear 100 times a day the Media Whores

announcers and Bush Crime Family Adm. say this is 'ALL Saddam Loyalists'. So who's ignorant, stupid, or lying?