The Liberation of Safwan

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday March 21, 2003 16:04 by Good News

Not really the monsters you morons think. Discuss. customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WAR_RDP?SITE= CODEN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT (copy and paste link)

As respite from your prefunctory dark pessimism regarding the motives of the US in Iraq and how ordinary Iraqis feel about their arrival, have a read through the following paragraphs lifted from AP stories:

Waving Iraqi civilians greeted members of the 1st Marine Division as they entered the town of Safwan. Using winch chains, some of the troops hauled down giant portraits of Saddam overlooking a street.

"We're very happy... Saddam Hussein is a butcher," said a man in the back of a pickup truck, identifying himself only as Abdullah. A woman fell at the feet of the Americans and embraced them, touching their knees.

Maj. David "Bull" Gurfein, pumping his fist in the air, led a milling crowd of citizens in chants of "Iraqis, Iraqis, Iraqis!" A young man in a headscarf told Gurfein: "No Saddam Hussein. Bush!"

See? And no innocents killed either. Now kids, try to think of REAL criticisms of these stories, the usual sneers and tantrums will just hop off.