the military decided to 'take off the gloves' in Fallujah. The message seems to be if you commit atrocities to instill fear on our troops, expect similar acts....
Reciprocity, a.k.a. turnabout is fair play, and lest we forget, 'war is hell'. That said, who was the MORON who turned the dogs of war loose in the first place ? That said, look what a rightwing website says about the incidents and Fallujah :
"...The Fallujah Marine operation is under the command of Guy's old commander, Maj. Gen. James Mattis, now the 1st Marine Division commander, who, Guy said, "is the best of the best." The Washington Times reported that his forces were "still were fighting insurgents that included Syrian mercenaries along a one-mile front." And General Mattis understands what works on Syrian mercenaries.
Writing from the Saudi Desert in 1990 on Thanksgiving Day, 3 months before his battalion moved across the border to drive out Saddam's army in Kuwait, Guy wrote, "I m really getting to dislike the Middle East. The Arabs are really an incredibly brutal people. There's talk about the 'friendly' Arabs turning against us if Israel is involved in this conflict. It's pretty hard to accept the idea of American giving their lives to protect an ally so untrustworthy that we have to seriously be concerned that they would turn on us. After this is over, I wonder if Kuwait and Saudi Arabia will return to the unethical practice of price fixing oil through OPEC. That would be ironic, after we save their countries they return the favor by gouging us with the price of oil."
And, of course, that's exactly what they did. Guy went on to say, "Just think of how many despots there are in this region. Saddam Hussein is not the only one who is the moral equivalent of Hitler. There's President Assad of Syria, Rafsanjani of Iran, Yasser Arafat of the PLO, Qaddafi of Libya."
Guy also told of a massacre of Syrian civilians by Assad, the father of the current Syrian despot. A reporter asked Assad if it was true that "6000-7000 civilians were killed by your government's troops." Assad quickly and proudly corrected the reporter by saying it was not a mere 6000-7000 who died but 38,000 who died for defying him. The point Guy made was that the culture of the Arab people admires power — and force, even when they are the ones getting killed."
and futher on it says...
"Al-Jezeera's reports which I try to follow clearly bear out Guy's observation. While the American media generally did not print the horrible pictures taken by Al-Jezeera's reporters of the slaughter, mutilation and hanging of the charred bodies of the four American contractors, they were proudly and prominently and repeatedly shown to the Arab public by Al Jezeera. The April 1st Al-Jezeera report, which showed the charred bodies of the American's, was titled "Grisly Falluja pictures shock US viewers."
It gave a complete report to its readers on how successful the same tactic was during the Clinton Administration. Al Jezeera stated, "The gruesome pictures of the charred, mutilated bodies of four Americans killed in an ambush in Iraq, reminded viewers of the grisly scene surrounding the deaths of US servicemen in Somalia a decade ago." The report ended with, "Pictures of a dead American serviceman being dragged through the street aired constantly on US television, and led to the eventual evacuation of US forces from Somalia."
A few days later the smug Al Jezeera reporters inside Fallujah were shaking with fear and dodging bullets from a determined US Marine operation while whining about the Arab world not "intervening" to make those pesky Marines go away. Instead, they are faced with a knowledgeable and determined American president who responded to the grisly Fallujah attack with:
"We were tested in Fallujah. And the desire for those who do not want there to be a free and democratic Iraq is to shake our will through acts of violence and terror. It's not only our will, it's the will of other coalition forces and it's the will of the Iraqi people. As you know, that many Iraqis have been targeted. As a matter of fact, the al Qaeda affiliate Zarqawi made it clear that part of the strategy was to turn Shia on Sunni by killing innocent Iraqis."
taken from
"Bush won't run from Al Jezeera's "grisly pictures" or John Kerry's attacks"
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/mostert/040407 Was this all about 'playing to the media' ? Did Al Jezeera show pics of the Willie Peter and napalmed victims just as the media showed the charred Blackwater guys ?
This is all about, as Thomas Friedman said, "Hama rules" in his book From Beirut to Jerusalem
www.mafhoum.com/press2/63P58.htm
Finally, was there an evacuation of Fallujah prior to the US 'going in ?' If so, would someone on DU do more research on it and why it failed or succeeded ? This incident was about POWER and MACHO, on both sides. Everyone lost.
All to impress Syrian mercenaries ? Is this an untold story OR WHAT ?
Maybe that's why I read on DU on another post that Bush is threatening aerial attacks inside Syria...All to impress the Arab world ? While losing respect in the non-Arab world. I see.
The world isn't getting a full picture of this mess. The Middle East is truly Satan's playground. Do you think Fallujah pics will make it to US newspaper front pages...?
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