Bremer is on CNN with a split screen showing Iraqis picking up their dead

[NNN0LHI]

They just dropped the split screen. They must have got a call? He says the US is creating three new security institutions.

Don

[saigon68]

1. Let me Guess

1. The Schutzstaffel (SS),



2. Ashcroft's Angels



3. Einzatzcommandos

[Cooley Hurd]

2. What was the deal with the lifeless guy in front of the semi?

I couldn't tell if they were beating him or just merely carrying him away?

[NNN0LHI]

3. It appeared he was being carried away n/t

[saigon68]

22. Resistance forces take off the gloves

An Iraqi man armed with a Kalashnikov rifle takes cover after clashes broke out with U.S. forces in the impoverished Baghdad suburb of Al Sadr City April 4, 2004. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz



Al-Sadr's self-styled militiamen from the al-Mahdi Army, speed away from clashes with coalition forces to take a wounded man to the hospital in Kufa, Iraq (news - web sites), Sunday April 4, 2004. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)




Crowds of protesters, including members of the Mehdi Army, a banned Iraqi militia that supports radical anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, march on a Spanish garrison near Kufa April 4, 2004. At least 19 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in clashes between Spanish-led forces and Iraqi protesters and militiamen near the city of Najaf Sunday, hospital officials said. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish

[koopie57]

4. What have these

people ever done to us to deserve this?

[NNN0LHI]

5. They had a bad leader named Saddam who we supported for decades

Bad Iraqis.

Don

[saigon68]

6. Here's the BRAVE VICEROY now

[bvar22]

12. Check out those "private security guys"?

Are these civilians?

[daleo]

15. Contractors

Looks like they are getting ready to deliver a pizza or something.

[Hand]

17. Yes, civilians...

Probably ex-military special ops guys hired by a firm like Blackwater Security. I think that pretty much all of the bodyguards are civilian "contractors".

I'm not sure why this is being done, but I suspect that in part it's because "private guards" like these two aren't subject to military regulations such as rules of engagement. They can pretty much do whatever they think is necessary to fulfill their task.

It's weird, though. Apparently thousands of these guys are over there in one role or another; they're an army unto themselves. Americans, Brits, South Africans, even some Nepalese Gurkhas and Fijians (Fijians are tough soldiers, among the world's best). There's money to be made...

More info and a link here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x462670

[saigon68]

18. Nice

Not

[montana_hazeleyes]

19. The one on the right

looks like Mark Macgwire

[TahitiNut]

13. Bremer sure looks like he's wearing a Kevlar vest.

It must be to protect himself from the inundation of flowers from a grateful populace. :eyes:

[VolcanoJen]

16. Hey, rose thorns *sting*, ya know.

Good eye, TN.

[TahitiNut]

26. It's sometimes difficult to distinguish ...

.... between their wearing of a Kevlar vest and their prototypical baboon-like stance. :evilgrin:

[boobooday]

7. I saw a soldier interviewed the other day

About Falluja, and he said something about the Iraqis "cowardly" tactics. It made me so sad.

What is braver, to fight barefoot with scraps to defend your home, or to fire missles from planes, and DU rounds from tanks?

I do think our soldiers are brave, and I'm appalled at how they are being treated, but I don't think this propaganda about the cowardly enemy is going to work for much longer . . .

This administration has desecrated everything they've touched.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[ithacan]

8. clueless

it's that kind of mentality that guarantees continuing disaster in Iraq and the ultimate expulsion of the US from that country.

[Name removed]

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[Cooley Hurd]

9. The "cowardly" label is thrown out there every time...

...the enemy has a success. Bill Maher, as unpopular as it was at the time, was correct in saying that to call these people cowardly was incorrect. It takes a lot of sand to challenge the most powerful nation on Earth.

[Jack Rabbit]

10. Cowardly

Did anybody apply that term to invading an oil-rich nation that, asw they well knew, couldn't defend itself?

[The White Rose]

11. 50% of whose population is under 16...

We were lied into war against a nation of children. Do we feel brave yet?

[saigon68]

14. Those children will kick Amerika's ass

When their mother is killed ------life takes on a new meaning.

[leesa]

21. Oh please Americans hide behind their bombs and hi tech killing toys.

Who are the cowards? Invading countries that are disarmed...Afghanistan and Iraq. Sheesh!

[Art_from_Ark]

28. I think Maher was referring to the hijackers

not to the Iraqi people

[NMDemDist2]

25. watch out Bill Maher got fired for saying less

:scared:

[leesa]

20. Deade Iraqis, dead baby seals, no diff, eh GOP warmongers?

[peacetalksforall]

23. The one on the right - Negroponte...supposedly - he'll be the first

Ambassador. Now at the U.N. - is he clearing the path for Rice to go to U.N.?

[riverwalker]

24. "contractors" trained under Pinochet

I read that today and almost puked. What kind of monsters have we unleashed upon that population? They make Saddam look like Mother Theresa.
<<The company "flew a first group of about 60 former commandos, many of who had trained under the military government of Augusto Pinochet, from Santiago to a... training camp in North Carolina," wrote Jonathan Franklin, reporting from Santiago, Chile.>>
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16701

[oasis]

29. Contactors or "Halliburton Hessians"? (eom)