Thursday, April 22, 2004
Doesn't surprise me in the least
From a recent MSNBC Article:
New figures for the Iraqi casualty toll from this month’s fighting emerged Thursday, with the health minister saying 576 Iraqi insurgents and civilians had died in fighting since April 1 — sharply lower than earlier estimates.
I also read that during a recent ambush, the loudspeaker at a local mosque started claiming that Americans were "raping" Fallujan women. Of course, the mosque was calling Fallujan residents to "rise up and wage jihad," which indicates a bit the biases of the speaker, but I'm positive that is false, and I'm not anywhere near Fallujah. Ask Europeans of their experience of American troops during WWII, or Koreans during the Korean war. Granted, there were some instances of misbehaving soldiers, but you'd have a hard time blaming American soldiers of the kind of systemic abuses seen among German, Japanese, Serbian or ex-Soviet soldiers when they've gone in armed to a foreign country.
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From a recent MSNBC Article:
New figures for the Iraqi casualty toll from this month’s fighting emerged Thursday, with the health minister saying 576 Iraqi insurgents and civilians had died in fighting since April 1 — sharply lower than earlier estimates.
I also read that during a recent ambush, the loudspeaker at a local mosque started claiming that Americans were "raping" Fallujan women. Of course, the mosque was calling Fallujan residents to "rise up and wage jihad," which indicates a bit the biases of the speaker, but I'm positive that is false, and I'm not anywhere near Fallujah. Ask Europeans of their experience of American troops during WWII, or Koreans during the Korean war. Granted, there were some instances of misbehaving soldiers, but you'd have a hard time blaming American soldiers of the kind of systemic abuses seen among German, Japanese, Serbian or ex-Soviet soldiers when they've gone in armed to a foreign country.
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