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*Originally posted by sholay: *
Having said that, he's most probably one of those redneck hillbillies, using an Asian nick pretending to be someone he's not.
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Aur tum ho Sadaam key abba kya? Itna kyoun pyar hey saddam say? You just like him because he killed shias. The same thing your friends like to do in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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*Originally posted by Kaleem: *
I believe Peter Arnett told the truth. Now before some of you bent out of shape and others let me explain. Other journalists have pretty much said the same thing right here in US. One of them Fred Kaplan, chief editor of Slate.com. He was being interviewed on CNN and said the same thing. I will paraphrase now;
US Iraq war plan has failed because they planned this war for days, not weeks or months. This is the prime reason they ran out/were running short of the supplies. He admitted that he has not seen the actual war plan, however, after looking at the war doctrines and war games (which by the way US had been doing for the last 2 years) he was quite certain that war was not going to according to the plan.
Now about Peter Arnett, did he commit treason? Yes he did. you do not go to the enemy and admit that your country's war plan has failed and US is only says that it wants to help the Iraqi people because of the world pressure. If you look at it from a patriotic point view, *you will agree that he commit treason. *
Kaleem
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Speaking the truth is treason?
“There are no obvious military targets here, just row after row of mud-walled houses, nestled in the crook of a deserted main road leading to Jordan, 15 minutes out of Baghdad city centre.”
DESPAIR OF A VILLAGE AT DEVASTATION](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12817688&method=full&siteid=50143) Mirror, UK 07 Apr 03
by: Peter Arnett
Baker Nagill Sacanda Mohammed holds a blackened flatbread in his outstretched arms and begs for answers nobody can give. Behind him are the smouldering remains of his bakery, the hub of this quiet Shi’ite community until the war finally caught up with it 45 minutes ago. **A few feet away, under sheets of bloodstained newspaper on the pavement, are the remains of his 12-year-old son Abu. As the wind leafs through the pages then picks them up and blows them down the street, exposing the grisly stain they were laid down to hide, Nagill surveys the wreckage, and asks simply: “Why? Why?”
An hour ago, he was sweating over his brick ovens whose fires he had never allowed to go out since the war started, the only business to stay open. In the second he left his bread to cook and nipped to the back of the house, the heart was ripped out of his family and community. “Look what they have done to me,” he cries, looking at his bread in disbelief. “My son has been taken. My business has been taken.** Why does the war come here?” Looking around, I can only presume war came to al Salan by mistake.
There are no obvious military targets here, just row after row of mud-walled houses, nestled in the crook of a deserted main road leading to Jordan, 15 minutes out of Baghdad city centre. The village of about 15,000 Shi-ites survived the first Gulf War unscathed and would have been the type of neighbourhood the US military would have liked to count upon as potential friends against Saddam. Now the cloud of cordite hanging in the air above a neat row of smoking craters has turned it into another hostile environment for American marines.
The first, he says, hit the bakery. Now they will have no bread. The next ploughed through the roof of the house next door, mercifully empty since the family joined the evacuees lucky enough to have family on the Iranian border who could offer them refuge. On the other side of the road, a bus has been shredded as though it were made of cardboard. The driver had been napping in the front when the missiles came. Miraculously he was blown clear and landed in a heap on the road, shocked but unhurt.
I had been brought to this scene of carnage by my old friend and assistant Karin. He was driving up when he saw the place blow up right in front of him. He came back to get me and we grabbed an official and raced to the village to find locals crying and shouting in the street while the wounded were taken to hospital. I was surrounded by angry locals, pointing their fingers at me and then at the bloody mess on the pavement, asking me what had they done, why did they deserve this. Looking around, I imagined with despair just how many times this scene would have to be repeated in the coming days and weeks. Earlier in the day, the Ministry of Information had taken us to see the devastating results of US raids in the South East.
In a carefully stage-managed show, 30 Iraqi soldiers sang anti-American slogans and danced on a US Abrams tank. Close by, a column of burned out Iraqi vehicles told the story of a full-scale battle won by the Americans. War has definitely come to Baghdad, and you cannot have full scale war in a city of 4.5million people without bringing death and destruction to civilians like this. Word and fear are spreading among these ordinary people. What remains to be seen is whether they will respond with armed resistance or acquiescence.
Not that US is in Baghdad with little resistance, we know that Arnett was wrong about the war plan. Their goes his credibility.
BLITZ: Arnett and villager among the ruins yesterday (Mirror)
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Arnett will go down in history as the next Sun Tzu