Bitterness apparent as U.S. releases Iraqi prisoners

[Barrett808]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

Bitterness apparent as U.S. releases Iraqi prisoners
By Leila Fadel | McClatchy Newspapers

BAGHDAD — When Leila Nasser was six months pregnant, U.S. soldiers burst into her house and wrestled away her husband, Mohammed Amin, who was asleep on the roof, trying to escape the summer heat.

This week, Nasser waited outside what's now called the "reconciliation hall" in Baghdad's Jihad neighborhood for Amin to appear. In her arms she cradled her year-old son, whom she'd named Moubin, the Iraqi word for apparent.

"I called him Moubin hoping that his father would appear for his eyes," she said. Moubin had never met his father.

Now Amin was one of 15 detainees who'd be released as part of a reconciliation program that the U.S. military's 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment put together in hopes of easing tensions in this divided neighborhood. But the release showed how far reconciliation has to go.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/23497.html

[Robbien]

1. Reconciliation? My lord what a kick in the face.

The couple in the story clearly have no beef with other Iraqis. Can't say the same for their feelings about the occupation forces.

She wouldn't let her husband get any where near the American because she was afraid "They might take you again,"

[xchrom]

2. bitter, -- hmm ya think? nt

[TacticalPeek]

3. K&R

:kick:

[MadMaddie]

4. Take away a man's pride in front of his family, keep him

captive for years, humiliate him in the worst conditions and then say...oh well we made a mistake. If these people were not part of the defense of the their country they will be now....and our soldiars are stuck in the middle of this shit.

Congress just gave billions more to sustain this mess and more of our soldiars will be killed because of it. Let's remind the Dems of this every chance we get. They did nothing but sign the death notices of our soldiars.....