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U.S. Invaders to use Iraqi human shields to storm Majaf shrine

by DLi
In another thinly-veiled attempt to put an Iraqi face on the Occupation, the U.S. military will use Iraqi cannonfodders to storm the sacred shrine in Najaf because it fears using GIs will incite even more violent reactons from the Shiite masses in southern Iraq.
Fine-tuning its Chickenhawk tactics(of sacrificing other people's lives), first developed to a fine art by the Neo-cons of the current Bush Oil Cabal, the U.S. Occupation Authority intends to send Iraqi soldiers to do the dirty fighting for the Americans. (Besides, it will have the added political benefits for the White House, as it hopes the number of GIs killed in the continuing Occupation will diminish, helping to cool domestic U.S. public revulsion against an Imperialist invasion, in the 2 months before the pivotal November U.S. election.) And "Prime Minister" Allawi, himself a long-time agent for the British & American secret services, has gone along with this propaganda trick to sell the World that Iraqi forces are in control of their nation's destiny.

The reality is that there are over 160,000 armed foreign terrorists inside Iraq, and they belong to the now-shrinking "Coalition of the (WAR)Willing" and their paid mercenaries. These are the only "anti-Iraqi forces" that the Pentagon tries to pass off as guardians of the peace & stability. And the truth is that, the sooner these state-sponsored terrorists leave(or forced to leave by the heroic Iraqi resistance), the better the internal Iraqi environment will become.
The switch to using Iraqi human shields is necessitated by the the continuing fiascos suffered by the Bushwhacked Cabal's "Operations Enduring Failure" inboth Afgahnistan & Iraq. the oil-soaked(& illegaly-selected) Regime is extremely fearful of the public outcry when the body count of GIs killed in the Iraq Invasion goes up near the psychologically-significant 1,000 mark in the next month or so
by nate collins
Symbolic perfection that the final stand of the arab freedom fighters in Iraq is at the mosque of the great warrior of the family of the prophet - Ali ibn Abi Talib who is reported to have said
“Avarice is disgrace; cowardice is a defect; poverty often disables an intelligent man from arguing his case; a poor man is a stranger in his own town; misfortune and helplessness are calamities; patience is a kind of bravery; to sever attachments with the wicked world is the greatest wealth; piety is the best weapon of defence.” The warrior tradition in Islam is enough to liberate American forces from their militaristic male expression to understanding the true mandates of warriors, to protect home and the homeland. The Arabs have been given the gift of a righteous struggle, and the Americans are involved in the worst type of overreach and bad conduct. Disillusionment with the American cause is deeply rooted at this point. Identification with the cause of the rebels, and further with the traditions of Ali are spreading far past the walls of the holy shrine in Najaf. I can feel the brothers just sittin here.
by sfres
I agree using Iraqis to storm this mess is wrong. The shrine should be obliterated with missles. The Mahdi thugs should be shot. Rinse and repeat in Fallujah.
by Please confirm
that you and the protest warriors will be going to help our brave boys. Perhaps you'd like to ride the missile a la Dr. Strangelove?
by Robert Sprye (beowulf [at] affv.nu)
Hey sfres!

Let me know when you would like to fly out there, because I will gladly pay your ticket just to see you on the front line at the mosque!

Or are you too busy talking?

The Al Mahdi to which you refer is hardly equatable to the thugs that have illegally invaded the country and thereafter murdered thousands of innocent civilians for no just cause whatsoever.

I will lay odds you do not even have a clue what the Al Mahdi stand for.

The Al Mahdi is gathering the Iraqi (as well as other Muslims) people into a coherent social force, nationwide, that will keep the unelected American regime quaqmired for years to come in an unwinnable exercise in the futility of crime for profit.

The really sad part is that so many Americans will die needlessly, serving a "system" as some would put it, that could care less if they have adequate housing, health care, education, habeus corpus, or a livable environment. The majority of those Americans are by definition those most impoverished, most deprived, and most maltreated of all Americans. I speak naturally of the fact that the majority of those serving a "system" they do not comprehend are in fact minorities and people of color.

The Iraqi peoples on the other hand, are easily galvanized to outlast the murderous intents of simple criminals for hire.

Because Al Mahdi has the clear moral high ground and the ring of justice behind their statements and actions. For every Al Sadr murdered, thousands more will rise up. It is in the nature of the struggle itself.

For every toadlike George Bush the oligarch vomits up, thousands more will rise up against it. Because Bush, Kerry, and the constituency they personally represent are easily seen by all the worlds peoples to be liars and extortionists for personal gain. Their "system" is not functionally coherent and it does not work. For every effort they make the truth becomes more obvious because more people suffer.

They are also deliberate murderers and this is something only a fool could debate when the facts of the matter are broadcast daily.


Can you say Vietnam, sfres? I know those disenfranchised veterans who make up the majority of our homeless and entirely disenfranchised wish they didn´t know the awful truth so well.

I´ll tell you what, I´ll take my Vietnam veterans roaming the streets wondering where their lives, their purpose, their human dignity went, over your pathetic National Guard mercenaries any day.

In case all of you wandering the streets thought the mission was over, that your life had lost it´s meaning, you need to think again.

It is a L O N G campaign and you are truly the best front line troops the free peoples can field, as long as you see this clear fact and report for duty, that is.

So get off your butts, stop that useless whining, and get to the nearest organization that is actively working to remove the oligarch.

There is a lot of work to be done.

NOBODY knows better the human cost of our unelected regimes criminal aggression better than those veterans and the Vietnamese. One could build a very, very strong army for peace and justice from men and women such as they.

In closing, I hope you will continue to post here, sfres, along with all your little "protestwarrior" friends.

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