Wake up America...Take a closer look at those insurgents!

[CoffeeCat]

Did everyone see the video footage of the Iraqis setting fire to a British tank, just shortly after a British helicopter went down near Basra?

Look closely at those bloodthirsty, savage, maniacal insurgents. They're twelve years old. They're 16 years old. Gee, I didn't realize that evil insurgents wore rugby shirts!

Anyone who looks at this video--and is paying attention--can see our pResident's lies in their full glory. Insurgents and Iraqi citizens who are fighting us--because they want us to leave Iraq--and they are not all hideous monsters with machine guns.

The entire frickin country hates us. They want us the hell out. Attention Kmart shoppers---this ain't workin!!

That video was shot in a RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD in small-town Basra. These were average Iraqis, coming out of their homes--to throw rocks and small explosives at a military tank--and then set it on fire. Everyday, ordinary Iraqi citizens--most of them probably without electricity, water and safe neighborhoods--three years after this lie-based war began.

I tell you what. If a foreign nation, invaded MY country--in the name of "freedom" and dropped 10,000 bombs on a nearby city--and then destroyed our infrastructure, made it impossible for me to get to the market without being killed, murdered 100,000 citizens, tortured civilians in prison chambers and killed my friends and family---I'd be out in the street too--setting tanks on fire!!

When will the madness end? When the hell will America fully wake up and realize that everything that we've been told about this war--including who the "insurgents" are--is a horrendous lie?

[ClintonTyree]

1. When we have a media that gives a shit........

I remember watching the news during the Viet Nam war and believe me, it wasn't the sugar-coated or non-existent shit we get now. The American people got to see the TRUE ugliness of war back then, but we're not allowed to see that anymore. Our "embedded" reporters in Iraq aren't allowed to cover anything that could be harmful to the bush administration so the true face of war isn't seen by Americans today. Government information control along with an ever willing corporate media are the reason why Americans won't "fully wake up".

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Plus foot soldiers who are ' volunteers'....

from the working class. If they were drafting college kids for Iraq, the war would have ended before it began.

The sad truth is: people are OK with the most *vile* injustices. As long as they don't have to *look* at it.

And our corporate media sees to this.

[libhill]

26. "Embedded" media indeed -

"in bedded", more properly. In bed with the fucking Government and Bushies...

[cantstandbush]

33. I'm way past your "when" questions. When will America be punished?

When will the Bushbots be punished? These are my questions.

[lonestarnot]

2. We just need to get the fuck out. NOW!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. what you said.

But, Pat Kennedy hit a barrier! Why should they report on this shit?

[Olney Blue]

4. The next generation who will never forget what we did to them.....

K and R :kick:

[tridim]

14. The next generation who also used to admire us..

for our freedom and our lifestyle.

Makin' enemies is hard werk.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. WE tried to tell them before they invaded didn't WE!

[rustydog]

7. remember, 50% of Iraq's population is under 18 years old

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. If someone firebombed areas around my hometown, there

would be hell to pay.... we are paying it now.

ON EDIT: Incendiary devices were used on PEOPLE in Basra.... if memory serves.

[OneBlueSky]

9. new rule . . . you can't win the "war on terror" militarily . . .

our foreign policy needs to be based on diplomacy, not on pre-emptive war . . . we need to be making friends of other nations, not enemies . . .

in short, we need to be doing exactly the opposite of what BushCo is doing . . .

[babylonsister]

10. I didn't see this video, but your account is chilling.

Who has enough authority to stop this madness?
Edit: spelling.

[Canuckistanian]

11. Kids are being taught to hate Americans and Brits

Mothers are packing lunches for them. Whole neighborhoods turn out for helicopter crashes and bombings, cheering.

Iraq will be toxic for Americans for decades.

Feeling safer now?

[Amonester]

34. Iraq will be toxic for the world also (Depleted Uranium). >-(

http://www.rense.com/general64/du.htm

"Horror Of US Depleted
Uranium In Iraq Threatens World
American Use Of DU is "A crime against humanity which may, in the eyes of historians, rank with the worst atrocities of all time."

US Iraq Military Vets "are on DU death row, waiting to die."
By James Denver
http://www.rense.com/general64/du.htm

<snip>
I'm horrified. The people out there - the Iraqis, the media and the troops - risk the most appalling ill health. And the radiation from depleted uranium can travel literally anywhere. It's going to destroy the lives of thousands of children, all over the world. We all know how far radiation can travel. Radiation from Chernobyl reached Wales and in Britain you sometimes get red dust from the Sahara on your car.

The speaker is not some alarmist doom-sayer. He is Dr.Chris Busby, the British radiation expert, Fellow of the University of Liverpool in the Faculty of Medicine and UK representative on the European Committee on Radiation Risk, talking about the best-kept secret of this war: the fact that, by illegally using hundreds of tons of depleted uranium (DU) against Iraq, Britain and America have gravely endangered not only the Iraqis but the whole world.

http://www.rense.com/general64/du.htm

:scared: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[leftchick]

12. Three Bristish Vehicles Set on Fire!

in 'peaceful Basra'

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2267261&mesg_id=2267261

[PaDem]

13. That's exactly what we'd do here............

if the tables were turned. I wish the sheep that support this war would put themselves in "their shoes" so to speak. Can you imagine our reaction to what would be the audacity of another nation invading this sovereign nation completely unprovoked? If my family was deprived of electricity, water or any other basic necessity because of a foreign occupation, I'd be in the sreets looking for blood.

[libhill]

27. Good point

the Bush worshipping, "ain't gonna git my gun lessn' ya take it out my cold dead hands" crowd would be out in the streets shooting at anything that moved...

[NNN0LHI]

29. "That's exactly what we'd do here............" Some of us would

Others would collaborate with the occupiers. Just like in Iraq.

Don

[Tommy_J]

15. Kicking, recommending, nominating...

[leftofthedial]

16. I think it's a travesty that

that one girl was eliminated on American Idol.

I'm sick of those Mescans taking all the jobs.

:sarcasm:

[earth mom]

17. You are right and it's been obvious to me for a long time.

When will the rest of America get it?

When it dawns on them that Bush Co was behind 9/11. Simple as that.

[libhill]

28. Don't hold your breath -

there are even D.U. members who can't wrap their minds around that concept. In total denial. And DUers should know better. You really think the Bush worshiping Neanderthals will ever wise up to that? "It were them thar A-rabs what hates our freedoms what done did 9/11. Cuz Bush done sez so, an' he talks to Jaysus"...

[BuyingThyme]

18. No, no. They are AL QAEDA! Each one of them has personally

met with Osama Bin Laden on several occasions.

They have exhaustive knowledge in flying -- but not landing -- airliners, and are extremely proficient in using utility knives.

They are known to have trained extensively at the flight-school and warehousing strongholds of Afghanistan, where most pilots and professional box openers are known to originate.

Don't you know nothing?

[hootinholler]

19. Of course they want us the fuck out!

Then they can restore running water and power and other luxuries.

-Hoot

[aikoaiko]

20. I hear ya, but I still worry about pulling out and starting a civil war.

I don't think the shia are going to let the sunnis take over again and who know what will happen to the kurds if anarchy breaks out. And then there is Iran.

Yeah it suck big sweaty balls over there but it could be worse.

[Brazenly Liberal]

21. Whether we pull out tomorrow or ten years from tomorrow,

there will be chaos. Any government that is in place when we leave will be distrusted as puppets of the occupiers. The only thing we accomplish by staying is a higher body count.

[Amonester]

35. And 3280+somrthin' percent increase in Helliburton's stock.

ExnxronMobil's, Karlisle's, and the BFEE's not included (here).
That would take way too long.

[Grateful for Hope]

22. Absolutely right

Has anything we have been told by BushCo been the truth? Trying hard to think of even one thing...

[Disturbed]

24. The US/UK Occupation will continue as long as...

the funding keeps being passed. The Reps of US/UK keep voting to continue The Occupation by providing the $$$$ to keep it going.

[Grateful for Hope]

25. Sadly

You are correct.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

23. Nooooo!! They're all dead-enders...don't you know anything?

[Kurovski]

30. K&R (nt)

[upi402]

31. i'm living in tardnation

dang!

[fooj]

32. KandR!

Peace.

[Tom Joad]

36. Someday they will be successful in ridding Iraq of a brutal occupation

It is their right to resist.

If you don't like that resistance, end the occupation.