At least twenty are confirmed dead following violent demonstrations

[nostamj]

At least twenty are confirmed dead following violent demonstrations in Pittsburgh this afternoon while throughout occupied America armed resistence against Sino-Islamic coalition forces continued to escalate–along with increasingly deadly reprisals. A coalition spokesman confirmed that one coalition trooper was abducted, hung and set on fire following an incident where a pregnant woman was killed during a routine search for insurgents in a Canton, OH neighborhood. The spokesman also stated that the coalition authority regrets the accidental shooting of Audrey Brown and her unborn child.

In other news, the patriotic pacification of republican loyalist cells in Billings, MT, Astoria, NY and Concord, NH have proceeded without significant coalition casualties.

Both East and West coast ‘hot zones’ have been successfully cordoned. There have been no new reports of contaminated refugees breaching the newly fortified boundaries.

The coalition spokesman stressed that ‘a dangerous and aggressive illegitimate regime with massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction has been removed and the world is safer from imperial, fundamentalist, terror today.’

i wish it WAS funny....

can you IMAGINE massive, violent protests on an equivalent scale here? broken up with deadly force by an occupying force?

through the looking glass?

damn!

this is Alice on BAD acid. very very BAD acid.

[alcuno]

1. Fallujah and Pittsburgh have about the same populations.

They tend to refer to Fallujah as a "town" to make it seem small.

[mtnester]

2. OK, no I'm really OK...

"Thank you operator, no I did not mean to call 911, I thought I was having a heart attack there for a minute, but I'm not. Sorry to have bothered you."

Scary and convincing post.

[nostamj]

5. sorry about that

these are scary times.

i just seems to me that American don't even TRY to have a perspective on what's happening there.

[Robbien]

3. They really should not have shut down that newspaper

I really do believe it was the proverbial straw. It sounds simplistic but it did seem to galvanize ordinary Iraqis where before they were resigned to just show their frustration by just venting.

[nostamj]

4. it was swatting a hornets nest

again.

things are now worse than ever... and bushco continues to dance the 'oh no no that's not blood that's roses cakewalk'

this beast is escalating, metastasizing

[dweller]

6. they really should not have arrested that cleric's aide

but it seems they always manage to do the wrong thing, in this wrong place, at this wrong time.

i wonder why?
dp

[nostamj]

7. well, chaos is good for 'bidness'

ididn't?

[Aidoneus]

10. the straw was the massacres carried out by occupation forces in response

There have been stupid and petty provocations by the occupyers before, and demonstrations against them, but firing on them as the US, British, and Spanish invaders did--that is what will bury all of them.

[nostamj]

11. the Sunnis were fighting us

the Shia *majority* is now fighting us

so we're marching into Fallujah to 'pacify' by bombing residential neighborhoods...

how long before the Kurds take advantage of the chaos?

[JanMichael]

8. The sad thing about this dystopic scenario is that it won't be occupation

forces doing the killing.

It'll be good American police and soldiers doing it.

[nostamj]

9. chilling

thought. if you're right.... can't even go there.