Some info about the by Guido Thursday April 10, 2003 at 11:15 PM |
"The streets are scattered with casualties and US soldiers are firing at anyone that tries to evacuate them. The IRC(International Red Cross) says they are shooting at their clearly marked vehicles and preventing treatment of the wounded is not only against the Geneva Convention but "unacceptable".
"While networks around the world are showing pictures of jubilant Iraqis, albeit in areas that have suffered most under his regime including the very poor Saddam city and the Kurds in the North, the International Red Cross says that the situation in downtown Baghdad is another story.The streets are scattered with casualties and US soldiers are firing at anyone that tries to evacuate them. The IRC says they are shooting at their clearly marked vehicles and preventing treatment of the wounded is not only against the Geneva Convention but "unacceptable"." Jihadspun
"CIA STAGES ANOTHER BOGUS PSY-OP/PHOTO-OP ABOUT FIFTY IRAQUIS SHOW UP FOR THE BIG RALLY by voxfux
You're being LIED to...
They expect us to believe that there happened to be this confluence of a smattering of listless Iraqis at the juncture of this symbolic US inroad to Baghdad's Liberation Square and that sudenly this big rope comes literally out of thin air (I guess they always keep spools of giant rope at the base of Saddam statues just in case) and next thing thing you know the Iraqis are pulling down Saddam's statue. Well almost. There really wasn't a lot of umpf in the crowd. Mostly kids and like, unemployed guys. Then an American soldier decided to wrap an American flag around Saddam's head. Word came down from Centcom, "Nix the American flag, not good symbolism at the moment. An Iraqi flag quickly went up." VOXFUX
"The images they choose, and choose to ignore
Robert Jensen
It was the picture of the day -- the toppling of a Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad -- and may end up being the picture of the war, the single image that comes to define the conflict.
The message will be clear: The U.S. liberated the Iraqi people; the US invasion of Iraq was just." Al Jazeera
"A tale of two photos"
You have probably seen the photos of the statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled, and TV footage of jubilant Iraqis rolling the bronze head around, bringing back memories of so many previous popular uprisings – 1989, 1956, 1953...