Ah, sweet liberty! In Najaf a senior Shia cleric is killed (and he was an an ayatolllah's son, too!) -- because elements of a crowd thought him too pro-American. In Baghdad troops attack a mosque because "a meeting" was due to take place there. Meanwhile the let-'em-have-their-fun looting is at the point where Baghdad's hospitals are all either closed or picked clean by looters. Mopping-up operations, anyone? They haven't even started summary executions of Baathist cadres yet...
Things are going swimmingly well, aren't they? At a time when many in the world believe the US is implacably hostile to Islam -- even though Saddam was hardly what you'd call devout -- this sort of thing doesn't make the US look good.
As a spokeswoman for the Red Cross says:"I want to really stress that it's the responsibility of the forces in charge to ensure hospitals and supply stations are safe and that people can get access to medical care. They have to ensure access to civilian infrastructure."
Indeed. Would the Defense Department care to comment? Other than to say "it's not our problem, we're not cops"...Oh yes it is and yes you are -- for now at least.
But the domestic media (and polls, no doubt) don't care about anything but when can we declare victory and move on to the next target, and would all you wimpy war oppponents apologize like right now. Bragging rights stuff.
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Things are going swimmingly well, aren't they? At a time when many in the world believe the US is implacably hostile to Islam -- even though Saddam was hardly what you'd call devout -- this sort of thing doesn't make the US look good. As a spokeswoman for the Red Cross says: Indeed. Would the Defense Department care to comment? Other than to say "it's not our problem, we're not cops"...Oh yes it is and yes you are -- for now at least.
But the domestic media (and polls, no doubt) don't care about anything but when can we declare victory and move on to the next target, and would all you wimpy war oppponents apologize like right now. Bragging rights stuff.
- bruno 4-10-2003 8:50 pm