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Winning Hearts and Minds in Iraq

by Steven D
Fri Jan 5th, 2007 at 05:26:19 PM EST

If pictures are worth a thousand words, what are videos worth?

Viewer discretion advised, as some videos may contain graphic images and/or vulgar language.

US TANK CRUSHES IRAQI CAR OF "LOOTERS"

(cont.)

(Hat tip to Minor Ripper).

KILLING A WOUNDED IRAQI

US MARINES CHARGED WITH MURDER

TAUNTING IRAQI KIDS WITH WATER BOTTLE

(Hat tip to Minor Ripper).

BEATING KIDS FOR THROWING ROCKS

BLOWING UP A MOSQUE

FIGHTING IN FALLUJAH

DEATH FROM THE SKY -- AC-130U GUNSHIP VIDEO

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ON PATROL WITH Co C 2/123D AR IN IRAQ

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Winning Hearts and Minds in Iraq | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Winning Hearts and Minds in Iraq (4.00 / 2)

Welcome to the real world.

I note that Peloshi's message to Dubya was to get "a new plan for Iraq that makes it clear to the Iraqis that they must defend their own streets and their own security". Beyond the implicit talkdown on Iraqis, those little irresponsible children, there is the implicit assumption that what US soldiers provide is security.

I know that articulating something much closer to reality would be impossible to say, would be impossible to not get painted as antipatriotic by a wide majority. But I'd hope the Democrat's position on Iraq will not boil down to what could already be sensed in their smackdown of PM Maliki in Congress last year: "blame it on the Iraqis". Because that's barely better than the Republoscum way.

by DoDo on Fri Jan 5th, 2007 at 06:40:22 PM EST

Re: Winning Hearts and Minds in Iraq (none / 1)

Why do they love us so much???

by cruz del sur (nicodekoenigsberg@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 5th, 2007 at 05:36:42 PM EST

Re: Winning Hearts and Minds in Iraq (none / 0)

Obscene...think I will go puke now. No wonder they hate us.

Frodo failed...Bush has got the ring.

by alohaleezy on Fri Jan 5th, 2007 at 06:22:31 PM EST

Steven, not wanting to be a nitpicker (none / 0)

just want the frontpage to be as factual as it can be. The DEATH FROM THE SKY -- AC-130U GUNSHIP VIDEO is not from Iraq. The video is from Afghanistan before the Iraq War was started. My husband has most of the archived military targeting footage from the air because of the class that he teaches and he knows them all by heart at this point, that is how I know where and when it was shot.

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by Militarytracy on Fri Jan 5th, 2007 at 06:31:32 PM EST

Re: Steven, not wanting to be a nitpicker (none / 0)

Thanks Tracy

I wasn't sure where it was from, but I thought it was probably representative of similar footage from Iraq even if it was from somewhere else.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Fri Jan 5th, 2007 at 09:36:43 PM EST
[ Parent ]

They crused the looted wood too (none / 1)

They bust the guys for looting and crush their car. While the punishment doesn't fit the crime, what seems like it is REALLY wrong is that they didn't unload the wood from the top of the car to return it to the owner.

by david anderson on Fri Jan 5th, 2007 at 06:46:31 PM EST

Re: They crused the looted wood too (4.00 / 2)

What's more, the driver denied having been a looter.

by DoDo on Fri Jan 5th, 2007 at 06:50:39 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Winning Hearts and Minds in Iraq (none / 0)

the occupation most obviously is not about winning hearts and minds.

i'm glad you asked

by aarrgghh on Fri Jan 5th, 2007 at 06:55:30 PM EST

Re: Winning Hearts and Minds in Iraq (none / 0)

This is very sad! Small wonder that we are considered the enemy.

by pinky on Sat Jan 6th, 2007 at 02:09:48 AM EST

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