How Dare We Call It a War!

Anyone paying much attention to watching TV coverage now that there is this metaphorical betting pool on when the actual "Regime" is overthrown? ... And, the US created more enemies within Iraq and other countries with every blast that killed "civilians".

I am firmly convinced that the toppling of the Saddam statue yesterday was stage-managed by the US forces (who after all contributed a tank to pulling it down) for the benefit of the TV cameras. It was a pseudo-event like so many others in this "war."

Bodies litter streets of Baghdad suburb

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Around 20 bodies and burnt-out cars littered the streets of the southwestern Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Dora, an AFP photographer reported.

Bodies, including those of children, were still strewn over the road between Al-Dora and the international airport, which is under the control of US forces.

The putrid, fly-covered corpses were being buried in a mass grave along the side of the road by volunteers whose noses were covered with scarves agaisnt the stench, according to the photographer.

Some of the corpses were in or under the charred vehicles. Dead children lay on the side of the road, covered in sheets.
One family, two of whose members were completely incinerated, died in the back of a pick-up truck.

"If the price of freedom is this, we don't want it," said one Iraqi helping at the scene.

A gutted white Mercedes car sat at the roadside, a white flag still fluttering from its antenna.

A US officer at the scene said Saddam's Fedayeen paramilitary militia attacked an American convoy which retaliated, causing the deaths on Monday.

Witnesses, however, said that US soldiers opened fire on cars carrying civilians they thought posed a threat on Wednesday morning.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030410/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_war_baghdad_bodies_030410145215

What forces unfavorable to our goals are staging demonstrations in the US, trespassers? You sound like a paranoid crank. I SAW the US troops helping to topple the Saddam statue. They had a tank that dragged it off its pedestal. If you think the antiwar demonstartors are being secretly manipulated, you should say who is manipulating them--if you know, which I very much doubt.

No, Tres, nobody CALLED you a paranoid crank ... it was observed that you SOUNDED like one, not that you were one. You even remark to that effect later in your retort, which itself invites further off-topic, interpersonal minutiae of interest to a very limited audience and is contrary to preferred proceedure.

Coalition 'will select Iraqi leaders'

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said that the United States and its coalition partners will select leaders for a new interim Iraqi authority.
Mr Powell said the US was "not unmindful" of the international community's work regarding humanitarian aid for Iraq.

But he said coalition countries had invested more in the Iraqi conflict and had the right to take a leading role in the building a new authority.

It's Thursday, so it must be nation building day, and the day that the Iraqi's don't get to chose their leaders.

It's very disturbing to me that Baghdad is now in a state of anarchy. It seems that our own "leaders" have given no thought to post-war city government.