On March 18th, 2006 Anonymous (not verified) says:
I would like to see the "dr" hmmm hmm Reid walk an IED laden street in Iraq.
Reid has to be one of the most souless politicians in the New Labour hit squad.
He would tell you shit was healthy and nutritious if it suddenly became party policy.A pure piece of shit of the highest order.
Cannot stand the fat bastard.
The video images of a series of massacres in Iraq mark a new level of horror in the sectarian killing. A warning that this story contains graphic images of corpses, including some which have been mutilated
On March 18th, 2006 Anonymous (not verified) says:
or maybe the wanker Ried should read this article.
5 Children Shot In Head as US raid on home killed 11 family members
By Amer Amery
A senior Iraqi police officer said autopsies on the bodies, which included five children, showed each had been shot in the head. Community leaders said they were outraged at the killings and demanded an explanation from the U.S. military.
"After they left the house they blew it up," he said.
Another policeman, Colonel Farouq Hussein, said autopsies had been carried out at Tikrit hospital and found "all the victims had gunshot wounds to the head".
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
This is corroborated by Joseph A. Christoff of the US Government Accountability Office to the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee (http://www.slate.com/id/2135859/sidebar/2135843/). Given the dissolution of any meaningful central governance in Iraq, communities are forming regional control centres often along tribal lines. This does not rule out sectarian cleansing in many such areas which no doubt is occurring among Sunnis, Shias and Kurds.
Reading through Nir Rosen’s and others’ unembedded reporting from Iraq, it seems reasonable to conclude that what the coalition terms as insurgency is really a struggle against foreign occupation. Iraq, nevertheless, as one country no longer exists. What happens once the bloodletting ceases? American public opinion seems to favour a cut and run approach leaving a mess for the Iraqis to deal with. Public opinion across the world needs to harness its antiwar sentiments into framing a coherent policy framework for Iraq to pick up the pieces once the coalition against the War on Terror beats its inevitable retreat. That framework needs to incorporate retribution for the Iraqis themselves. Without such strategies, we will see many more catastrophic incidents in the years to come.
Did you check out Reid's interview on BBC R4's Today programme? (Saturday I think - perhaps it's still on the website) In response to his first question, Reid answered by asking the interviewer to listen to the sounds around him - the birds were singing, the helicopters were buzzing ... presumably this was a sign that things were going well in Iraq. Obviously, the birds never sang under Saddam, and if they did, it was only ever at gunpoint. And you couldn't hear them anyway because of the screams of the tortured. To be honest, I half expected a bomb to go off during the interview (oh, the irony). As it was, Iyad Allawi goes and ruins Reid's strategy by saying Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. So who are we meant to beleive: Reid (total time spent in Iraq: not much) or Allawi (ex-Prime Minister, elected official, the man HMG supported in the last elections; time spent in Iraq - at least three years)? Or as Groucho Marx put it: who do you believe - me, or the evidence of your own eyes?
I would like to see the "dr"
I would like to see the "dr" hmmm hmm Reid walk an IED laden street in Iraq.
Reid has to be one of the most souless politicians in the New Labour hit squad.
He would tell you shit was healthy and nutritious if it suddenly became party policy.A pure piece of shit of the highest order.
Cannot stand the fat bastard.
Maybe the fuck wit should watch this video.
Video horror captures more sectarian massacres in Iraq
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The video images of a series of massacres in Iraq mark a new level of horror in the sectarian killing. A warning that this story contains graphic images of corpses, including some which have been mutilated
or maybe the wanker Ried
or maybe the wanker Ried should read this article.
5 Children Shot In Head as US raid on home killed 11 family members
By Amer Amery
A senior Iraqi police officer said autopsies on the bodies, which included five children, showed each had been shot in the head. Community leaders said they were outraged at the killings and demanded an explanation from the U.S. military.
Major Ali Ahmed of the Ishaqi police said U.S. forces had landed on the roof of the house in the early hours and shot the 11 occupants, including the five children.
"After they left the house they blew it up," he said.
Another policeman, Colonel Farouq Hussein, said autopsies had been carried out at Tikrit hospital and found "all the victims had gunshot wounds to the head".
The Hollow Men
The Hollow Men
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
-T. S. Elliot
Allawi, the ex coalition
Allawi, the ex coalition protégé, has publicly referred to a civil war that Reid claims Allawi denied when the two met a few days prior to Allawi going public. As Michael Schwartz, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the Undergraduate College of Global Studies at Stony Brook University, in his ‘Iraq’s Sovereignty Vacuum – Volume 2’ points out the overwhelming target of attacks is the coalition forces (varying from a low of 70% in December 2005 to a high of 90%), followed by new Iraqi army units (5-10%) with civilians usually below 10%.
This is corroborated by Joseph A. Christoff of the US Government Accountability Office to the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee (http://www.slate.com/id/2135859/sidebar/2135843/). Given the dissolution of any meaningful central governance in Iraq, communities are forming regional control centres often along tribal lines. This does not rule out sectarian cleansing in many such areas which no doubt is occurring among Sunnis, Shias and Kurds.
Reading through Nir Rosen’s and others’ unembedded reporting from Iraq, it seems reasonable to conclude that what the coalition terms as insurgency is really a struggle against foreign occupation. Iraq, nevertheless, as one country no longer exists. What happens once the bloodletting ceases? American public opinion seems to favour a cut and run approach leaving a mess for the Iraqis to deal with. Public opinion across the world needs to harness its antiwar sentiments into framing a coherent policy framework for Iraq to pick up the pieces once the coalition against the War on Terror beats its inevitable retreat. That framework needs to incorporate retribution for the Iraqis themselves. Without such strategies, we will see many more catastrophic incidents in the years to come.
Did you check out Reid's
Did you check out Reid's interview on BBC R4's Today programme? (Saturday I think - perhaps it's still on the website) In response to his first question, Reid answered by asking the interviewer to listen to the sounds around him - the birds were singing, the helicopters were buzzing ... presumably this was a sign that things were going well in Iraq. Obviously, the birds never sang under Saddam, and if they did, it was only ever at gunpoint. And you couldn't hear them anyway because of the screams of the tortured. To be honest, I half expected a bomb to go off during the interview (oh, the irony). As it was, Iyad Allawi goes and ruins Reid's strategy by saying Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. So who are we meant to beleive: Reid (total time spent in Iraq: not much) or Allawi (ex-Prime Minister, elected official, the man HMG supported in the last elections; time spent in Iraq - at least three years)? Or as Groucho Marx put it: who do you believe - me, or the evidence of your own eyes?