Comments on: Iraq in Fragments http://fanonite.org/2007/01/26/iraq-in-fragments/ Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:14:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Freeborn http://fanonite.org/2007/01/26/iraq-in-fragments/#comment-1219 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:35:34 +0000 http://fanonite.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/iraq-in-fragments/#comment-1219 Yes,Fallujah was a horrendous war crime which the mainstream media not only totally sanitized but on occasions actually gloated over.This was the Iraqi town chosen by the US as the sacrificial lamb on which the occupiers would break the resistance and terrorize other centres of resitance into submission.
Channel 4 broadcast US troops telling embedded reporters they were going to bring hell to Fallujah,and filmed GIs killing supposed resistance fighters long after they had surrendered.
We now know what the cruel,genocidal cowards perpetrated and we now also know that Fallujah is still resisting and like most of Iraq will never be pacified until the US is driven out.Moreover the US problems in controlling Iraq now stem greatly from the crimes they committed ( lest we forget with British connivance )in 2004.When Sunni leaders said their people would boycott elections Cheney and Rumsfeld with typical arrogance declared that Sunni participation could be dispensed with.It was deemed unnecessary to prevent Shias from assuming control of the vital organs of the state.
What the US sought to avoid by crushing Sunni and Shia resistance ( around Najaf in the latter case )and provoking civil war was to avoid fighting a war on two unwinnable fronts.That daunting prospect has not gone away.Sectarian violence will level out as fighters on both sides perioritize the rejection of US forces,and removal of the weak Maliki-led government.The writing is on the wall while Bush struggles to find the light switch!
Freeborn

]]> By: Dave http://fanonite.org/2007/01/26/iraq-in-fragments/#comment-1191 Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:09:13 +0000 http://fanonite.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/iraq-in-fragments/#comment-1191 This film is really worth watching.

Film Review: Fallujah 2004
http://www.ramallahonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2263

as is this one

Fallujah: the hidden massacre
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/08/1516227

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