U.S is not that evil after all or is this a picture op?
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a bunch of hypocrites, who cares.
they have to pay
Since Saddam was toppled in April, Iraq has paid out $1.8bn in reparations to the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), the Geneva-based quasi tribunal that assesses claims and disburses awards. Of those payments, $37m have gone to Britain and $32.8m have gone to the United States. That's right: in the past 18 months, Iraq's occupiers have collected $69.8m in reparation payments from the desperate people they have been occupying. But it gets worse: the vast majority of those payments, 78%, have gone to multinational corporations, according to statistics on the UNCC website.
Source: The Guardian
So showin pics. like these by spendin 100 dollars cant hide 100 000 MUSLIMS BLOOD, they have to pay for that INSHAALLAH.
^^ Can you back that up with another source besides Guardian, it appears some (actually one) find Guardian to be uncredible (since they campaigned against Bush). It would be nice to see another source.
re: the original post
you should bear in mind that saddam was an incredible ahole towards his own people, and that people are bound to be happy hes gone.
IMO in not managing this invasion properly and allowing people to represent them as occupiers with ulterior motives because of what they've been doing, they missed the best/easiest oppurtunity they had to be seen as a positive player in the middle east. he was a hated dictator with little organic support and an enfeebled army.
i think it can still be salvaged if the elections are not fraught with allegations of fraud, which seems improbable and if the american presence in Iraq is swiftly removed.
Re: they have to pay
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Since Saddam was toppled in April, Iraq has paid out $1.8bn in reparations to the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), the Geneva-based quasi tribunal that assesses claims and disburses awards. Of those payments, $37m have gone to Britain and $32.8m have gone to the United States. That's right: in the past 18 months, Iraq's occupiers have collected $69.8m in reparation payments from the desperate people they have been occupying. But it gets worse: the vast majority of those payments, 78%, have gone to multinational corporations, according to statistics on the UNCC website.
Source: The Guardian
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and that is after spending $200 billion on this war.
1 billion = 1,000 million.
bad bad business decision for USA if ti was.
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^^ Can you back that up with another source besides Guardian, it appears some (actually one) find Guardian to be uncredible (since they campaigned against Bush). It would be nice to see another source.
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LOL ... the Guardian is one of Britain's main broadsheet newspapers.
Britain's press regulatory authorities have never found anything to suggest the Guardian fails to provide non-factual news.
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^^ Can you back that up with another source besides Guardian, it appears some (actually one) find Guardian to be uncredible (since they campaigned against Bush). It would be nice to see another source.
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The guardian is possibly one of the most sane newspapers in the UK.
It is as unbiased as you would wish a newpaper to be.
O and the brits hate bush becasue he is a grade A arss who is unpredictably stupid. What says about your nation is up to you.
Anyone else find the US intervention in ukrane (was it) extremly ironic and sadly funny? How an administration that has stolen power through fraud and so forth thinks its self able of preaching is beyound me,
However I digress.
As an additional point - the presence of individuals welcoming an occupying force is an age-old phenomenon.
In the 1930s and 1940s, the German Army found thousands out in the street to welcome them into Prague, Vienna, Copenhagen and many other European cities that fell, because there were many people there who benefited from occupation.
In the Ukraine, the troops of the SS, the ideological troops of the Nazi party, were greeted by cheering villagers grateful for their presence.
Anyway, some more pictures of Iraqis grateful for the US presence
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Mohammed Abdullah, a one year old resident of Ramadi.
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2-year old Mustafa Adnan, who lived in the Jolan district of Falluja attacked by the USA on November 14th, is extremely grateful for the leg he had blown off of him.
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This 16 month old baby from Fallujah is clearly pleased about the attack on the city.
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These men from Fallujah, seen here hanging around the corpse of one of their family members on November 8th, are evidently quite glad the Americans are over there.
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7 year old Salah Falah from Fallujah, seen here on November 16th, is much better off now than 2 years ago, now that the Americans are around and he's had his left foot ripped off during their attack.
mAd_ScIeNtIsT:
The reason I asked for more sources from LiveSohaib was due to the post from a different thread from OG see below
http://www.gupistan.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=170637
LiveSohaib’s made an interesting observation and I wanted more sources to back that claim.
As far as pics are concerned I got these pic’s from U.S coast guard. I posted them because not all soldiers are bad, as you can see. When I saw these pictures the first thing that came to my mind was that I didn’t see any Islamic or Iraqi NGOs doing the same as the U.S soldiers. If you search my posts you will see that I was the first one to point out the killing of a wounded insurgent by a marine.
I did inquire after posting the pics and the pics are pretty old from late last year to early this year, before the big insurgency began. The reason the pics were given to me were; that lately no one had seen the good things that U.S soldiers were doing in Iraq so this was to boost the +ve image.
I qoute from an anonymous source that provided the pics “Lately you don’t hear on ABC, FOX CNN the good things our boys are doing in Iraq”.
BTW I do have an opinion on the war in Iraq but would like to hold off for another thread.