Matthew Good 4:30:03

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Matthew Good 4:30:03

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CBC-FALLUJAH, IRAQ - U.S. soldiers fired on anti-American protesters for the second time this week, as Iraqis demonstrated Wednesday against the previous shootings. Fallujah's mayor said two people were killed and 14 wounded in the gunfire. About 1,000 people marched down the city's main street, carrying signs condemning Monday's shootings. They stopped in front of a battalion headquarters of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, a former office of Saddam Hussein's Baathist Party. When some of the protesters started throwing rocks and shoes at the building, soldiers inside suddenly started shooting at the crowd, according to reporters on the scene. An American civil affairs officer said the U.S. would investigate whether the protesters had fired on troops. Fallujah city officials who witnessed the incident said they didn't see or hear any shooting from the demonstrators.


Hypocrisy. There’s nothing like claiming to invade a country on behalf of the liberation of its people and then turn around once you’ve done it and start denying them basic democratic freedoms. Unless, that is, the democracy clock doesn’t start running until after there’s been a government elected that can shoot at protesters on behalf of the US Army. Had this occurred in the United States the uproar would be heard on Mars. But as we’ve all come to know, the rest of the world isn’t America and thus really not afforded the same luxuries.

There you are in Iraq, the most well equipped and technologically advanced army in the world, and the rules of panic still apply. Because you never can tell when a rock or a sandal being hurled by some 15 year old might be disguised as a weapon of mass destruction. As it’s flying through the air you think to yourself “so that’s where they’ve been hiding them!”

Congratulations to those 82nd boys. Way to hold a position.