Fallujah Was Not A Success! 18 Months Later It Is A Fucking MESS!

[leftchick]

:grr:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HF27Ak03.html

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Having entered the city through the main checkpoint, the first thing visible are the destroyed homes in the al-Askari district. Virtually every home in this area has been destroyed or seriously damaged.

"I could not rebuild my house again because rebuilding is rather costly nowadays," Walid, a 48-year-old officer with the former Iraqi army, told IPS. With sorrow in his eyes he told of how he built his home six years ago. After the destruction, "They paid us 70% of the compensation, and with the unemployment in the city we spent most of it on food and medicine. Now everybody is waiting for the remaining 30%."

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Doctors were reluctant to talk to IPS unless promised anonymity. "It is more a barn than a hospital, and we are not honored to work in it," said one doctor. "There is a horrible lack of medical supplies and equipment, and the Ministry of Health is not doing much about it," added another doctor, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

When IPS mentioned a new hospital under construction in the city, one of the doctors replied, with irony, that half of the people of Fallujah would be dead before that hospital project was completed. He said an emergency plan for the existing hospital was essential, especially because people were too afraid of seeking medical attention in any of the Baghdad hospitals for fear of being kidnapped and killed by death squads.

The situation is further complicated by the fact that Ramadi General Hospital, often used by residents of Fallujah, is no longer accessible due to the ongoing US military siege of that city.

:(

[leftchick]

1. This kid gets it....

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Ali Ahmed, a 17-year-old student, interrupted: "We do not need press releases in this city, sir. What we really need is a solution to the everlasting problem of this city ... The Americans and Iraqis in power accused us of terror, killed thousands of us and now they are just talking about reconstruction. Well, they are all thieves who only care for what they can pinch off the Iraqi fortunes. Just tell them to leave us alone as we do not want their fraudulent reconstruction."

Ahmed added that the US military continued to kill and arrest people for any reason whatsoever, and sometimes for no reason.

[whistle]

2. Fallujah was supposed to have been genocide so the Bush...

...goal has not been accomplished yet.