GI blasts Iraq's proposed amnesty for insurgents who kill U.S. troops

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sorry guy but it's their country. Blame Chimpy for starting the war on a lie why don't you?

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TODAY I READ a newspaper article that filled me with rage and contempt. It was about the "reconciliation" that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki plans to offer the Sunni armed factions here. Maliki is reportedly considering granting a limited amnesty to Iraqi insurgents who have killed "only" Americans but no Iraqis.

To a soldier who has been deployed to this country twice already, and has been out on the street fighting insurgents, this is, plainly stated, an outrage. I take personal offense to Maliki's proposition to grant any kind of amnesty, limited or unlimited, to any insurgent who has been involved in terrorism against the United States. It seems to me as though Maliki has slapped all the families of wounded or dead soldiers in the face.

Iraqi officials appear not to have a care in the world for justice or for the memories of the 1,979 soldiers who have been killed in action in Iraq. Think of how many parents have had to bury their sons and daughters.


http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-lease23jun23,0,7161023.story

[Kagemusha]

1. So the Iraqis owe us huh.

Funny, they didn't have a say in the US' going in, did they.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Tell your Commander-in-Chief. He's the reason you're over there

That's where your gripe should be sent.

[FloridaPat]

3. 300,000 dead Iraq civilians and they owe us? Depleted uranium

everywhere. Their country in tatters: very little electricity, water, sewage, food, jobs.

I think about how many parents have had to bury their sons and daughters every single day - from both sides of this disaster.

[MissWaverly]

4. he's right, we have no business where we are not supported

that's what it is, is it not, if the premier does not consider shooting coalition forces a
crime, then it is time for us to go, and no amount of bush baloney is going to spin this.
We either are supported by the Iraqi government which we helped to put into power or not.
I agree that we have had a sorry record there but we can't work w/o the support of the
government.

[Vidar]

5. Bush's hand-picked puppet government won't even support him.

This is way past Vietnam.