April 11 — In quick order, the northern Iraqi cities of Kirkuk and Mosul have fallen under the control of American and Kurdish fighters, leaving Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit as the last holdout in the 3-week-old war to oust the Iraqi leader. Meantime, U.S. forces stepped up the hunt for regime leaders who may be attempting to flee the country. On Friday, Central Command said it has issued a most-wanted list of 55 officials who must be captured or killed by American
troops.
i'm sure the brave americans won't be able to catpure anyone but instead they will show great heroicism to kill these people, along with many other civilians. :-)
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hey anything is possible when americans are around. afterall, they are the masters at such things as i kill and you take the blame or we'll blow up the whole area :-)
^ Just curious, were you aware of Saddam's killing of hundreds of thousands of your Muslim bretheren? How about the imprisonment, torture and displacement of hundreds of thousands of others? Did you cry for those victims as well? Or is all that exusable because the murderer was not an American?
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^ Just curious, were you aware of Saddam's killing of hundreds of thousands of your Muslim bretheren? How about the imprisonment, torture and displacement of hundreds of thousands of others? Did you cry for those victims as well? Or is all that exusable because the murderer was not an American?
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:-)
oh really?
i wasn't aware of that.
how very ignorant of me.
:-)
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*Originally posted by Seminole: *
^ Just curious, were you aware of Saddam's killing of hundreds of thousands of your Muslim bretheren? How about the imprisonment, torture and displacement of hundreds of thousands of others? Did you cry for those victims as well? Or is all that exusable because the murderer was not an American?
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*Originally posted by Seminole: *
^ Just curious, were you aware of Saddam's killing of hundreds of thousands of your Muslim bretheren? How about the imprisonment, torture and displacement of hundreds of thousands of others? Did you cry for those victims as well? Or is all that exusable because the murderer was not an American?
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Seminole, why were the Americans quiet all these years? Why remember all these things just now? Is it that the American economy is in dire straits, and it wants to get out of its woes by using iraqi oil?
Yeah, a competition to see who can criticize, condemn and complain about attrocitites committed by non-Americans. All this concern expressed for the poor Iraqi civilians rings very hollow when silence was all we heard as Saddam was oppressing, torturing, murdering, raping, imprisoning and displacing millions of these same people.
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Yeah, a competition to see who can criticize, condemn and complain about attrocitites committed by non-Americans. All this concern expressed for the poor Iraqi civilians rings very hollow when silence was all we heard as Saddam was oppressing, torturing, murdering, raping, imprisoning and displacing millions of these same people.
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yes hollow indeed when americans silently watched their plans being put to action by their friend saddam :-)
As a reminder to everyone please discuss the topic that was started in this new thread. If you want to discuss the past history between Iraq and the United States, please do that in another thread.
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Almost no fighting in taking the city.
April 11 — In quick order, the northern Iraqi cities of Kirkuk and Mosul have fallen under the control of American and Kurdish fighters, leaving Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit as the last holdout in the 3-week-old war to oust the Iraqi leader. Meantime, U.S. forces stepped up the hunt for regime leaders who may be attempting to flee the country. On Friday, Central Command said it has issued a most-wanted list of 55 officials who must be captured or killed by American troops.
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What can one say.. maybe the Anti-war crowd was right all along.... with that kinda minimal resistance to the US superior Army, maybe Iraq wasn't really a threat to the USA afterall...