'Good and honest' Iraqis fighting US forces - Gulf News Online - 6/9/05

[reprehensor]

'Good and honest' Iraqis fighting US forces

A senior US military chief has admitted "good, honest" Iraqis are fighting American forces.

Major General Joseph Taluto said he could understand why some ordinary people would take up arms against the US military because "they're offended by our presence".

In an interview with Gulf News, he said: "If a good, honest person feels having all these Humvees driving on the road, having us moving people out of the way, having us patrol the streets, having car bombs going off, you can understand how they could ."

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He said: "There is a sense of a good resistance, or an accepted resistance. They say 'okay, if you shoot a coalition soldier, that's okay, it's not a bad thing but you shouldn't kill other Iraqis.'"

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This bolsters what 'unembedded' journalists like Dahr Jamail have been saying for months now, and it doesn't bode well.

[praxiz]

1. Sheesh, how's the morale down there now?

Especially now, during the summer. Must be 40-50 degrees down there.

[Trajan]

2. 40 - 50 ??? .....

You obviously refer to the Celsius/Centigrade scale ...

[Frederik]

3. Duh

Dahr Jamail could have told him this a year ago. At least 80% of Iraqis support the insurgency, actively or passively.