Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 138

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   Oui on October 9, 2005 at 4:51 am

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   At this point, I don’t think the American presence there is driving the violence.  If anything it puts a limit on the amount of violence that is possible.  We can’t stop truck bombs, but we can stop infantry movements, and the mustering of large forces.

         ~ Earlier posted in The Civil War in Iraq ◊ by BooMan ~

   Analyse the purpose, goals and targets of the suicide attack and you will understand there is a grand design behind them. First of all, it requires a vast organization, coordination and logistics to have multiple attacks take place within hours, and some have been announced one or two days ahead of time.

   The Baathists, Sunnis and minor foreign Arab influence are part of this. It’s Saddam Husseins extended secret service who are involved, the U.S. hard-handed approach in central Iraq has created the opportunity for Iraqi factions to unite. A motivation for resistance is the presence of U.S. and British troops on Arab soil. The Iraqi population accepted in the early months the necessity of coalition troops to remove Saddam regime, a longer stay works counterproductive.

   Suicide bomber kills 21 people in Iraq

   
   Iraqis cry as they sitting around the coffin of a police colonel killed by suspected insurgents together with his one-year old daughter in Kirkuk, Iraq on Oct. 6. Insurgents using suicide and roadside bombs killed at least 21 people, including a U.S. soldier, in the latest of a series of attacks.  AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed

   The US failed miserably to establish order and security in Baghdad and all of Iraq. The services for water, hygiene and electricity are lacking, worse than it ever was under Saddam Hussein and the UN embargo. Even the availability of fuel at the service station is poor. The unemployment level is high – 50% – offering recruits to the Iraqi resistance and “freedom fighters”.

   The strategy has evolved as follows :: the targets

   • U.S. and coalition forces
   • oil infrastructure sabotage and pipelines
   • transport routes and contractors
   • reconstruction effort electric power and water facilities
   • Iraqis cooperating with occupation forces
   • Sunni retaliation for U.S. terror in central Iraq
   • facilitate division between Kurds, Shia and Sunni
   • means is coordinated attacks, Iraqi suicide missions NOT foreign martyrs
   • process of infiltrating the police, security forces and central government.

   Terror attacks follow an established plan, designed before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The weapons and munitions caches are in place and are very numerous and extensive throughout the country. The Kurds increases tension by evicting Arabs from cities like Mosul and Kirkuk. The borders are open, have been for ages, and there is no way the Iraqis or MNF can shut down border infiltration without full backing of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey and Syria. The Kurds are creating problems in the southern portion of Turkey by invading, bombing and attacking the Turkish armed forces.

   United States needs to GET OUT, sooner rather than later.

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   jimstaro on October 9, 2005 at 7:13 am

   This is a Silent Honor Roll shown on the PBS ‘News Hour’, now Almost Daily, that was started at the Beginning!

   

   As of Today, 10-9-05 there are 49 Pages with 5 ‘Honor Roll’ links per page!

   If you take the Time to View ‘ALL’ the Pages/Photo’s and Information Instill This Thought Into Each American Military Face You See, ‘Try and Picture 30, 40, 50, 60 or More Iraqi Faces, Children-Women-Men, Killed for Each Of These Faces You Are Looking At’

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     RubDMC on October 9, 2005 at 9:35 am

     Thanks so very much for this link – I’m going to add it to the ones I use in these diaries, along with a link to Veterans for Peace.

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       jimstaro on October 9, 2005 at 11:02 am

       Please Do, as it is Updated almost regularly as they get the Photo’s and Information, just as the Silent Moments of Honor at the end of the Show!

       I’ve been a Regular viewer of this show for years now, and frankly feel abit left out of Real News Discussion [and right wingers not answering questions but spinning] if I miss a night.

       To my knowledge they are the Only Ones who have Continued, in any form, InForming the American Public about Who and Where the Fallen are and from. Many a night a tear or two rolls down my cheek as I watch!!!