When are we going to stop killing Iraqis?

Question

The Deadly Occupation
[from the July 30, 2007 issue]-

One day in January 2005, an elderly couple was driving down a road in Mosul, Iraq, when without realizing it they passed through a makeshift US military checkpoint. The checkpoint, recalled a sergeant who came upon the scene, was "very poorly marked." Yet, he said, the soldiers "got spooked" and opened fire. The bodies of the couple sat in the car for three days, the sergeant said, "while we drove by them day after day."

That incident was no Haditha or Abu Ghraib. It was a fairly typical day for Iraqis under US occupation. As Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian make clear in their exhaustive investigation in this issue, the degradation and killing of civilians by US troops have become commonplace in Iraq. At tense checkpoints, in futile house-to-house searches, as convoys and patrols hurtle down the roads, the official rules of engagement and unofficial day-to-day practices of the occupation often add up to shoot first and ask q

Answer 1

So you are citing an incident that occurred 18 months ago and passing it off as recent? The biggest problem the Iraqi people face are from insurgents not Americans.

Answer 2

When religion is dead as they know it. I mean really, would they be in the war before we got there if not for their belief that there religion is the only one anyone should fallow. To judge others based on there beliefs is wrong. Start killing people over it, and yes, there will be a war. unfortunately during war Innocent people will die.
The hope or goal is less will die than if left alone to fester.

Though there is no reason to be inhumane. And people should not have been left in that manor. It is bad For all involved.

I hate war and what it brings, but I hate people being killed due to there beliefs more. Non should go through or be treated the way they were being treated!

I pose a new question, "When are Iraqis going to stop killing Iraqis?"

Answer 3

Not soon, I hope. For if we leave, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis will be killed intentionally.
What you described (whether it is true or not) is an accident. What I am talking about is cold blooded murder.
The people that would take over are the same ones that use human shields, blow up little children, and murder indiscriminately.
During the Korean war, the N.Korean army moved into civilians homes and built their defenses among S.Korean's homes. In at least one instance, the Allies had to destroy an entire town and most of its civilian population to defeat the enemy. The real criminals here are the people who use innocent human shields. And, of course, the communist sympathizers who try to destroy our government by spreading discontinent much as you are doing.

Answer 4

Ok kokona

I love how anti-war sentiment has all of the sudden become communism.. wtf??

yea that doesn't make you sound fascist or anything....


I hate war.

I was against it from the beginning, The decision to go in was based on anger about 9/11 and false information.

We were wrong

But we probably shouldnt be pulling out just yet, at least not for a few more months.

I mean we hafta reestablish SOME sort of stability don't we? We're the ones who overthrew the old order.. we should try and be a little bit responsible here, you can't just go around toppling governments then leaving them in chaos.


And the truth is that American soldiers do kill innocents, but we don't do it on purpose, Insurgents and suicide bombers do, and they need to be controlled.

Answer 5

The more likely question would be when are the iraq's are going to stop killing the americans that are helping them. This is a bad situation and that soilder was wrong, but there is a lot of problem over there between all people.

Answer 6

If you're going to post something from July 30, 2007 (on July 24, 2007), could you make it the stock listings or the sports page?

Answer 7

Ask a better question. When are the Iraqis going to ask us to leave?

And just for your information there have been more Iraqis killed by Arabs and other Iraqis than have been killed since the start by Coalition forces.

When are the people of the middle east going to join the 21st Centruy?

Answer 8

You got to be kidding me. Most Iraqis depend on the US as the only enforcer of the rule of law. War sucks and civilians get killed in the crossfire, but we are not the bad guys so why are trying to depict us as such?

Answer 9

When we have killed them all and Iran as well. Than Syria.
When they give up and stop killing innocent people and beheading them,
When they wear a uniform and stop hiding behind women and children and making women lower than a dog. When Islam understands they will never take us as will drop the big one on them and turn it in to a big sand bowl.

If you want to be truthful than you need to know what they want to do. Shites under Iran want to make the word a Shite Caliphate and the Sunnis want it to be in Turkey.
Wake up many of us in fly over country are ready willing and able to do what is needed and so is some on the democrat as they indicated last night in hidden words.

Answer 10

Well we could stop killing Iraqis, but that would only cause about 10 percent of the deaths to stop seeing the Iraqis are killing each other at an alarming rate.

Answer 11

wen all life as the same rights not there but here as will and stop big money doing all of this. we all need some thing to belive in. life is one way you come in and go out, siop the money and we stop the killing