U.S. forces deliberately bombed Iraq mosque

[MnFats]

...(but we don't need to know why they hate us)


Military Flashes More Steel In Iraq
Christian Science Monitor
October 20, 2004

For the first time in the Iraq war, according to military officials, U.S. aircraft last week directly bombed a mosque. The airstrike northwest of Ramadi ended an intense firefight in which insurgents, holed up inside the shrine with heavy weapons, held off the U.S. Marines for three hours. Precision-guided munitions set the Sharqi mosque ablaze, but left it standing.

"The Marines couldn't even get close to the building to do anything because of the firepower that was coming out of there," making the mosque a legitimate target, says a senior military official in Baghdad. "The only way to stop this was with a strike."

The incident illustrates how U.S. and Iraqi forces over the past three months have adopted increasingly tough tactics against a dug-in insurgency: raiding mosques, dropping bombs and firing rockets in cities, and conducting large-scale infantry sweeps into urban "no-go zones."


the link:

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_flashes_102004,00.html

[poliman]

1. Reality

For the first time in the Iraq war, according to military officials, U.S. aircraft last week directly bombed a mosque. The airstrike northwest of Ramadi ended an intense firefight in which insurgents, holed up inside the shrine with heavy weapons, held off the U.S. Marines for three hours. Precision-guided munitions set the Sharqi mosque ablaze, but left it standing.

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It's about time!

[Mikimouse]

3. It's about time?????????????

PLease clarify...

[poliman]

7. Military

The military is one of the few that the govenment does well. . . . .maybe the only thing.

If in their judgement it was the right action. . . . .I stand by them.

[rooboy]

12. You stand by the judgement of people you've never met...

in a situation that you're not familiar with?

[poliman]

19. Yes

Yes. . . it is unavoidable in a complex society.

[Eye and Monkey]

24. Another one-liner? or can you actually define any nuance in relation to -

the complex situation described in the original post?

[poliman]

Complex is your word

"the complex situation described in the original post?"

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The military people on the ground in Iraq in conjunction with the interim government are in a better position to make those decisions.

[Eye and Monkey]

38. Correction - it's your word - you don't read your own posts?

[poliman]

40. Mistake

You are correct. . . . I stand corrected.

[aquart]

51. Go back to your schoolbooks.

Read "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

[neomonkey]

41. Complex is the word that best describes

George W. Bush embarking on another shoe-tying adventure.

[poliman]

44. congratulations!

Now that is a complex connection?. . . . .congratulations!

[JSJ]

54. actually poli, the military is the most reliably corrupt agency of...

...the US gov. Don't want to deprive you of your twisted war fantasies, though.

[saigon68]

4. Its about time to do what?

Level the place?

[Mikimouse]

5. I guess we just can't have those damned...

Carthaginians...er....Eye-rakkees...defying Rome...er...'murka..now can we?

[poliman]

8. Exactly

Exactly

[Mikimouse]

17. Ummm, it IS their country, and WE are the invaders...

so I am not at all sure what there is to be positive about?

[poliman]

39. Invasions?

We invaded Europe too.

[Mikimouse]

48. Many differences...not a valid comparison...

Declared war between national uniformed military versus an undeclared war on a totally disarmed and vulnerable nation.
There is no justification for our behavior in Iraq, as in NONE, and bombing a Mosque proves nothing. It only succeeds in exacerbating an already horrible situation.

[Bluebear]

6. Onward Christian Soldiers and all of that, right?

???

[neomonkey]

10. It's about time

to really alienate the fucking world? It's about time for Idiot King to show his true colors?

It's about time you shaved and showered?

Please clarify?

[poliman]

15. Chill

I don't really have any Freudian issues regarding self image and I am quite confortable doing what I think is right without the approval of others.

I would be however very uncomfortable with the converse.


P.S. 'fucking world' . . . . . .got it!

[neomonkey]

26. Mimicking William Buckley

doesn't impress me much :)

Anyways man, good luck, yes, it's about time.

[Eye and Monkey]

29. Well, actually Buckley might know a Freudian issue when he sees one.

I'm not so sure about holiman.

[poliman]

32. Correction

Correction. . . I'm poliman not holiman.

[Eye and Monkey]

34. Correction - your handle is "poliman".

Who you are is of no interest to me.

[poliman]

37. Interest

Got it . . . . . .no interest to you. . . . I'll make a note

[neomonkey]

36. You've resorted to name corrections

as retorts, dude, You Are So Finished.

Say hi to Jim, I think I saw him parked at Target last week, how did he get so many B/C stickers on that van?

[Name removed]

42. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[neomonkey]

43. When in Rome...

[ogradda]

11. huh?

not sure i understand.

[saigon68]

2. A country of Rubble will be all that remains

I'd love to see them rebuild anything. Can you imagine the perils of doing "Heavy Construction" in a snipers gallery.

Yikes Every concrete truck would be suspect-- Every worker on a scaffold up in the air. Every hod carrier walking up the ramp.

[silverpatronus]

9. the US is essentially subjecting fallujah to a blitz...

like the german bombings of london during WWII

geez, the comparisons to the nazis just keep on comin...

[rooboy]

14. Guernica. n/t

[poliman]

16. OK

Try not to be so wordy. . . . lol

[neomonkey]

31. Hmm now that is the pot calling the kettle freeper

[saigon68]

20. guernica-- by picasso

The Cowards at the UN covered up the picture when the CHIMPANZEE came to perform his WAR DANCE.

"The Chimp = A Fascist War Criminal

[poliman]

30. Blitz?

"like the german bombings of london during WWII

geez, the comparisons to the nazis just keep on comin..."


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Hmmm. . . . . . ok. . . . . . .I lke it!

[DuctapeFatwa]

13. oooh! poliman, how bout a testimonial for my blog?

It has a testimonial section now, I would sure love to have one from you!

[poliman]

18. Testimonial?

What kind of testimonial, Duct?

[DuctapeFatwa]

21. a sincere one, poliman. click the link in my sig and scroll down.

You can post it here, you can post it there, PM it, email it, it's all good :)

[poliman]

23. Blog?

What kind of blog you got, Duct?

[DuctapeFatwa]

25. you just click where it says "blog last updated 10-20"

that will take you right to it!

[poliman]

28. Ok

Ok. .I'll put something together.

[bobbieinok]

53. have you changed format of your blog???? find it more useful

Note to everyone.....lots of interesting info at this site

[Barney Rocks]

22. The poor poor

Iraqis. I feel so sorry for them. Now they will feel helpless. I bet more people get kidnapped and maybe beheaded and it is all Bush's fault.

[poliman]

27. Hmmmm. . . . . . . . . .

I know you're a little emotional, Barney. . . . .but have you thought this through.

Don't misunderstand me. There are good arguments to be made but that's just not one of them.

[Name removed]

33. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[poliman]

45. Hi Kokomo. . .I grew up in Anderson

Sounds like a plan!

[Barney Rocks]

35. I guess I am

a little emotional (I am crying over this). But don't you think the Iraqi people are going to get emotional? I don't even go to church regularly--but I would be in terrible shape if someone destroyed MY house of worship. A place of worship is an important symbol--and it means a lot to people. Perhaps generations of their families have worshipped there--yes people are going to be emotional.

[poliman]

46. Don't cry

There were a lot more horrible deaths and tortures before we arrived. Maybe it's life's way of punishing us for not caring about their plight then.

There is so much suffering in the world that we would go crazy if forced to dwell on it.

It never seems to matter unless we're involved.

I'll be hoping for good things to come to you.

[Barney Rocks]

47. Thank you--

and welcome to DU!

:toast:

[poliman]

49. ?

DU?

[saigon68]

50. Adios

Vaya Con Dios

[0007]

55. We got a real gunho el jerko, 'eh?

[Eye and Monkey]

52. I'm gonna kick this

'cause the story is more important than the disruptive one-liners.

[Moderator]

56. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=918828

Although this thread has a lot more responses, it's because of the tombstoned poster.


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