Iraq women alone, distraught as US rounds up men

[RBHam]

Winning Iraqi Hearts and Minds?

BAQUBA, Iraq, Jan 3 (Reuters) Khadija's eldest son Ahmad was killed in battle during the war that toppled Saddam Hussein. Now US troops have rounded up her husband and four other sons, leaving the impoverished Iraqi woman to fend for herself.

''What do I do now? They took my husband and my kids and it's only me now,'' said Khadija, who like all women in her small hamlet on the outskirts of the flashpoint town of Baquba wears a black veil.

''My son is a martyr. My husband was taken and they took the rest of my children,'' she said in her mud and stone-brick house, which has plastic in the windows because the glass was shattered during the US raid which captured her husband and sons.

http://www.deepikaglobal.com/latestnews.asp?ncode=10992

Maybe, just maybe, Howard Dean was right! US troops are no safer!

Pace of attacks on U.S. troops hasn't slowed since Saddam's capture
By Tom Lasseter
Knight Ridder Newspapers

BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein's capture three weeks ago hasn't slowed the anti-American insurgency in Iraq, which now seems more entrenched than ever, according to a review of recent attacks and interviews with U.S. and Iraqi officials.

U.S. and Iraqi officials say they now doubt that Saddam had a significant role in directing guerrilla attacks. They say that while his interrogation has led to some arrests, basic information is still lacking about the guerrilla cells that are attacking U.S. and allied troops with sophistication and brutality.

more of the same ol' same ol'...

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/7621610.htm

[Webster Green]

1. Winning their hearts and minds......

One atrocity at a time. What a bunch of shit!

[izzie]

2. I read the blogs and they are interesting on such things.

Some think things are better in some ways and some think it is not. One I read, is the terror is now just in the city... All seem to wonder about the lights, gas and telephones.Some seem to think they lived better under Saddam in being safe. None liked him but then after WW2 no one had liked Hitler or voted for him, so that is just par for the times.

[dbt]

3. Damn. I'm so old I remember when America stood FOR something!

We were the Good Guys. We wore the white hats. We rode to the rescue when people were oppressed and rights were trampled. We saved the world from Fascism (oh, the irony!) and backed the USSR's nuclear ass DOWN over Cuba.

We were once so free that we wouldn't even pass a law banning the burning of our nation's flag (stay tuned).

What a mockery the BFEE has made of us all!

:argh:
dbt