U.S. general says Iraq insurgents are "good, honest" people....

[rfranklin]

(Also could be headlined "Taluto announces retirement...")

'Good and honest' Iraqis fighting US forces

By Phil Sands, Staff Reporter

Tikrit:
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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http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=168406

[LynnTheDem]

1. "you can understand how they could ."

Unless of course you're a rightwingnut. Or dumb as a rock.

Oh wait, that's redundant...

[Vladimir]

14. Hang on Lynn, I thought the insurgents

were beheaders and mass murderers and islamofascists and anyone not condemning them utterly was a fake progressive... ooops.

Its sad because its predictable.

[Just Me]

17. They couldn't possibly be folks who want their country back,....

,...from foreign occupiers who are perpetuating destructive havoc. :eyes:

[LynnTheDem]

22. They are. That General is just a lying librul banshee pinko commie

hippy-freak.

I mean, why would ANYONE fight being attacked and shock & awed and bombed and occupied by AMERICA?

[Vladimir]

26. Why indeed

when they get McDonalds and Taco Bell to go with the bombs and napalm?

[cornermouse]

2. Then maybe its time for us to leave.

Instead, I suspect Major General Taluto will be leaving. He's too honest and Bush & Co. don't look kindly on anyone who doesn't serve as an echo chamber.

Is Taluto in Iraq? That could be one way to get out of there.

[B Calm]

3. Do I see a Major General retiring real soon?

[Disturbed]

5. This won't be on any Corp. TV Network.

A Military person on active duty stating truth and a Gen. no less. Wow!

[DrDebug]

6. I think so

Generals aren't allowed to tell the truth...

[LightningFlash]

4. Looks like this General will be fired too for being "unpatriotic".

[steve2470]

7. How can we protect this guy ?

He's a dream in the military.

[annabanana]

13. Maybe Gen. Clark knows someone.... . . .n/t

[Botany]

8. Will this be not covered or spun as "Sour Grapes"

Major General Joseph Taluto :patriot:

[Cooley Hurd]

10. And I second your salute to the General:

:patriot:

It's not intellectually honest to call insurgents "terrorists," and call the French Resistance (during WW2) "Freedom Fighters."

Then again, intellectual honesty has never been a republican strong point...

[Botany]

11. Sometimes I think I am living in a weird unreal world

We invaded their country. Because of an act they did not do to look for
weapons that were not there and doctored intel so as to give us a reason
to invade. BTW for the first 4 months we pumped oil and did not meter
it. And now they are fighting us?

[mopaul]

12. things don't HAVE to make sense anymore

[mopaul]

9. the man is an obvious liberal traitor mole al qaeda zarqawi operative

and he kicked his kid's puppy to death

[Supersedeas]

15. was he fed this statement by the liberal media elite???

[Just Me]

16. Hook this guy up with Karen Kwiatkowski, Lt. Col. USAF (ret.) .

The wave of opposition is growing.

[leesa]

18. We know. So why are you killing them??

[Boo Boo]

19. Wow!

:wow:

He's in some pretty shit now.

[maxrandb]

20. Why Does This General Hate America? n/t

[peekaloo]

21. Wot? Why is he protecting those Saddam loyalists and border

crossin' terra-ists? :sarcasm:

Here's to you General. :patriot:

:toast:

[katinmn]

23. OMG! I wish we had a truth award to send to him

:applause: :patriot: :applause:

The "insurgents" are doing what we would do to get invaders out of our country, state, town, neighborhood, street and home.


An Iraqi waits outside his home as US soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division, Alpha company, enter to search it in the village of Alaiba, 70 kms southwest of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.




You all remember this. What would Americans do in a similar situation?

[Just Me]

24. These people need to be collected and presented on the floor,...

,...of Congress!!!!

[ClayZ]

25. Who would have thought ?????

Kudos for Major General Josepy Taluto!!!

:patriot: :applause: :patriot:



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".





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