Whats The Difference Between a Popular Uprising and a Photo-op?

posted by admin on Thursday April 10, @10:56PM

About a $100,000,000,000...

Secured photo-op...

POPULAR uprising...

Pelosi stands by vote against Iraq war

"The cost in human lives. The cost to our budget, probably $100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less. The cost to our economy. But the most important question at this time, now that we're toward the end of it, is what is the cost to the war on terrorism?" - Nancy Pelosi

Don't be fooled by joyous scenes, says refugee

Scenes of joyous Baghdad residents welcoming United States soldiers gave a misleading impression of how Iraqis felt about the US, an Iraqi refugee said today.

Renwar Reben said the war was between two enemies of the Iraqi people - Saddam Hussein's regime and the US, which backed brutal regimes in Baghdad for 35 years.

"The next chapter is going to be a conflict between the Iraqi people and the invaders, the pro-American regime in Iraq," Dr Reben told reporters.

"Sooner or later, the Americans will face the revolutionary anger and aggressiveness of the Iraqi people."

Dr Reben said Iraqis believed the US was behind the Iran-Iraq war and the first Gulf War.

"Iraqis also know America supported Saddam Hussein's use of a biological bomb against Kurds in 1988.

"At that time, (former president) George Bush, the father (of the current US president), vetoed against condemnation of Iraq for these actions."

Iraqis also blamed the US for the suffering endured over the last 13 years because of UN economic sanctions.

"Five thousand children died each month because of lack of medication and lack of sanitation."

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/11/1049567869880.html

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The Lie Of Liberation Cheering Iraqis are just a diversion, folks. BushCo's real goal is only just beginning

By Mark Morford,
SF Gate Columnist
Friday, April 11, 2003

Yay! The gorilla has crushed the mouse. The bazooka has blown apart the BB gun. The dinosaur has stomped the fly. Yay!

Rejoice in the streets! The bright shiny righteous angry Christian god has obliterated the angry sullen foreign god. Or something.

Except, of course, it hasn't, not by a long shot. But, hey, we've more or less taken Baghdad, right? Headlines are screaming, it looks like victory, it smells like victory ... it must be victory! We've won! Sort of! But not quite! Savor it like bloodied candy, we will!

Except that it was never a question. There was never a shred of doubt the U.S. would "win" Shrub's vicious little war. The world's richest superpower, the most deadly and potent high-tech military on the planet, all aimed at a pip-squeak, ragtag nation whose bedraggled, barely trained military was but a fraction of what it was 10 years ago, when we wiped most of them out in a week. Oh yeah, we bad.

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

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