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http://www.msnbc.com/news/948536.asp?vts=080520032135

It sure will be nice when peacekeeping forces can take over in secured areas, so our boys who are best at killing people and breaking things can quit "swabbing down" Iraqis.

Oh yeah, liberal media watchers, check this quote out (bold added by me):

U.S. troops who sweep areas after such attacks now generally detain large numbers of people, invariably including many with no connection to the attack but who may be permanently alienated by their detention.

Huh? This isn't the point of the story. There is no quote or support for this whatsoever. It isn't expanded on. As far as I know, there have been no stories about this.

In other words, just another journalist tossing in his opinion to try and take a jab at the operation... Typical.

Yeah, it struck me in particular when reading an issue of the German weekly mag ''Der Spiegel'' about combat operations on the fourth and fifth days of the war in Iraq. They had this kind of journalistic activism going on with making offhand remarks about the American ''mistakes'' every third or fourth line.

It sounds like the writer is inferring that any involvement with US troops can result in being ostracized by the community. If you are deemed an informer, one group will want to kill you. If you are deemed a remnant of Saddam''s regime, another group of Iraqi''s will want to kill you. In other words, the safest place is to not get involved.

Its sensationalistic, but not from out of left field.

"fangblackbone" wrote:

It sounds like the writer is inferring that any involvement with US troops can result in being ostracized by the community. If you are deemed an informer, one group will want to kill you. If you are deemed a remnant of Saddam''s regime, another group of Iraqi''s will want to kill you. In other words, the safest place is to not get involved.

Its sensationalistic, but not from out of left field.

The problem is that we''re not getting anything in context. Iraq isn''t falling apart we just have a small group of morons who are trying to kill our guys.

"Ulairi" wrote:

we just have a small group of morons who are trying to kill our guys.

Somtimes, a small groups (say about 20?) is all you need to wreck a lot of havoc. Don''t forget, if the intel was good (:wink:) they could be walking around with some WMDs...