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Monkie Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-05 05:27 PM
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They dont hate us for our freedoms!they hate us for... (2 photos)
pictures speak louder than words:


somewhere along the line someone thought,hey,why not use saddam's palaces to hold our troops.what a brilliant idea!

Counterpunch had the excellent idea to start actually interviewing the different resistance groups in Iraq and publishing their words in english, i'm glad at least one news organisation trusts us.

http://www.counterpunch.org/saud07122005.html
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-05 05:30 PM
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1. Oh. This is heartbreaking. Halliburton, Bechtel, and the others...
Nice... hear those "special" corporate protectors get about 1,000.00 daily, while our guys are on the real frontlines w/the Iraqi people.

Pictures do tell it all. Thanks.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-05 05:36 PM
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2. People in Iraq still don't have electricity or running water.
Freedom on the march!
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-05 05:36 PM
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3. hairy backs and bad tatoos?
Edited on Wed Jul-13-05 05:37 PM by KG
talk about your ugly american.
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-14-05 01:14 AM
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heck, U.S. troops in Afghanistan plashed about in a warlord's mega-pool
(while females were excluded, of course)
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tubbacheez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-05 05:37 PM
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4. Good pictorial point.
Truly, maybe they do hate us for one specific freedom. Exercised most egregiously by the neocons and big business, this is the so-called freedom to walk into a new country and exploit the locals.

Our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and the rest of our Constitutional Amendments are obviously unoffensive to them. Otherwise, we would've been attacked everytime something got ratified!


But the phrase "taking liberties" is befitting, when freedom becomes freedom to harm someone.
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illflem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-05 05:40 PM
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5. I recently read
the barricade wall around the green zone is over ten miles long.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-05 08:50 PM
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6. "The Ugly American Redux"
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-14-05 12:54 AM
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7. How typical
"We're there to establish democracy".

More like to maintain a caste system, with our people as the rulers and the brown-skins as the grunts. :eyes:
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-14-05 01:01 AM
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8. I'm going to kick this ... just because it needs to be seen.
Jeeezus....
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-14-05 01:03 AM
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9. Recommended. I'll try to kick tomorrow. This is obscene! n/t
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-14-05 01:06 AM
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10. Truly
:mad: While Iraqi's are without water and electricty and sometimes I'm sure even without food the first group is relaxing it up like they're out in Los Angeles!
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-14-05 01:07 AM
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11. Watch Frontline's Private Warriors on PBS
They go through Camp Anaconda. There is a Pizza Hut, Subway, bowling alley, etc. They've got all sorts of nice luxuries including air conditioned buildings. Halliburton is making a killing while people are getting killed.

I was so pissed off I didn't even finish watching it.
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-14-05 01:14 AM
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13. I've been meaning to watch it...but I know how pissed I'll be. I know how
to find it, but I know it'll upset me. Like "Hotel Rwanda". I'm just not sure I can bring myslef to watch it.

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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-14-05 01:10 AM
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12. Here's a pic:
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