"Occupation Forces Have Become a Source of Terror to Most Iraqis"

[leftchick]

I call it Genocide.....



Salwann, the son of Reuters driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, during the funeral procession for Saeed Chmagh and his Reuters colleague photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, in Baghdad July 13, 2007, who were killed yesterday. The two Reuters employees were killed in eastern Baghdad at a time when clashes had been taking place between U.S. forces and militants in the area. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ)

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/1479/im:/070713/481/b3faabc26db743f38b8cc1b1ce04fbba

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“It’s a psychological thing. When one U.S. soldier gets killed or injured, they shoot in vengeance,” Alaa Safi told Susman. Safi was the minister of civil society in the government of former Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari, after the toppling of Saddam. He said his brother, Ahmed, was killed April 4 when U.S. troops riddled the streets of their southwestern Baghdad neighborhood with bullets after a sniper attack.

By email yesterday, I asked Susman how the military had responded to her article. She replied today: “I have not had any official response
from the military or otherwise here on the article, but there is no
reason that they would have been expected to say anything. They do not have time to respond to every article written about U.S. troop actions in Iraq.

“I got a few emails from individual soldiers as well as citizens, here and in the States. Most were critical and accused us of being ultra-liberals and failing to comprehend the reality of what soldiers face." She added that one letter writer suggested that the dead boy's father, the L.A. Time employee. "was at fault for not having sent his son out of the country when the war began.”

Susman's article, on the contrary, was important and balanced. As Chris Hedges, the former New York Times war reporter, puts it this week at the Truthdig site: "The reality of the war—the fact that the occupation forces have become, along with the rampaging militias, a source of terror to most Iraqis—is not transmitted to the American public. The press chronicles the physical and emotional wounds visited on those who kill in our name. The Iraqis, those we kill, are largely nameless, faceless dead."


http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003600630

[bdamomma]

1. one million Iraqis have been killed

I call it a genocide too, we need to get out.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Bush will steal their oil no matter how many of them he needs to kill

Don't think a billion Muslims throughout the world aren't noticing this.

Don

[madokie]

3. American Soldiers being led by generals being led by bush*/cheney*

are TERRORIZING the Iraqi. *co wants their oil and control over their lives

[DrRang]

4. That's an incredibly powerful photo of not "winning hearts and minds."

[The Stranger]

5. It would appear to be a photo of the family member of a murder victim.

The "hearts and minds" doublethink/newspeak is what the perpetrators are using to avoid the harsh reality of what they have done.

[leftchick]

6. more on the murder of Saeed Chmagh

Khalid Hassan, 23, died a day after a photographer and driver working for Reuters were killed in the city in what witnesses said was a US helicopter attack but which the military described as a firefight with insurgents.

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Iraqi police blamed US military action for the deaths of Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, yesterday.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22072074-1702,00.html