Residents says Iraqi soldiers warn them to leave Sadr City (using loudspeakers)

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

BAGHDAD - Iraqi soldiers for the first time warned residents in the embattled Sadr City district to leave their houses Thursday, signaling a new push by the U.S.-backed forces against Shiite extremist who have been waging street battles for seven weeks.

Iraqi soldiers, using loudspeakers, told residents in some virtually abandoned areas of southeastern Sadr City to go to nearby soccer stadiums, residents said. UNICEF says about 6,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Sadr City, most of them from the southeastern section.

U.S. forces have increased air power and armored patrols in an attempt to cripple Shiite militia influence in Sadr City, a slum of 2.5 million people that serves as the Baghdad base for the Mahdi Army led by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

The U.S. military is trying to weaken the militia's grip in the slum and disrupt rocket and mortar strikes from Sadr City on the U.S.-protected Green Zone, which includes the U.S. Embassy and key Iraqi government offices.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080508/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_080506154745

[SpiralHawk]

1. This is a massive republicon Clusterf*ck

Led by Commander AWOL and VP Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney and the cabal of republicon chickenhawks.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Only 95 years left to go, right Mr. McCain?

What a total mess, thanks to the republican party.

[notadmblnd]

3. I know! they could just build a wall...

you know, like Hitler did to the Warsaw ghetto and the Israelis have done to the Palestinians? Wall them up and starve them out:sarcasm:

[mcjackson]

8. they ARE building a wall

around sadr city right now. (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/world/middleeast/18sadrcity.html) this should get interesting really fast.

[krkaufman]

4. "increased air power"?

So we're bombing a heavily-populated area? I have a hard time believing this wouldn't be contrary to one or more international laws.

[krkaufman]

5. ah. And the very next story I read is ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3258750

WASHINGTON -- Some readers resented The Washington Post for publishing an Associated Press photograph of a critically wounded Iraqi child being lifted from the rubble of his home in Baghdad’s Sadr City “after a U.S. airstrike.”

[leftchick]

9. the photos of the dead from US bombs are

on yahoo every fucking day. So nice to see one newspaper in the USA pick one photo out of the last five years. :mad:



A woman (L) and other relatives cry while waiting to claim the body of her husband who was killed in an air strike, outside a morgue in Baghdad's Sadr City May 8, 2008. An air strike and clashes killed seven people and wounded 20 others overnight in Sadr City, police said.
(Kareem Raheem/Reuters)

[mcollier]

6. What BullShit from Bush

We're told the surge has been a success "Mission Accomplished"... The conditions have been set for security in Iraq, now political progress can be made...

This is another miscalculation by the Bush Admin. Now the solution is to Blow Out Sadr City? This is so beyond wrong...

McCain is proposing the same BullShit...


Not this time...

[gratuitous]

7. Gee, what's the problem?

I mean, imagine if the city where you live was under siege by a foreign army (for your own good, of course), and they said they wanted to bomb the living crap out of your neighborhood. You'd leave, go stay with your brother-in-law, right? Wouldn't have a second thought for your house, yard, etc.?

Why are those Iraqis so unreasonable? We're just trying to save them!

[winter999]

11. Actually, if I heard a warning, I'd get the hell out of Dodge.

There ain't nothing in my home that I'd risk my family's life for. Maybe I just value life too much.

[gratuitous]

12. Yeah, I'd get out too

But I'm also saying that there might be the weensiest bit of resentment over the foreign soldiers hollering at me in another language to vacate my home because they're so scared they're pissing their pants.

[truth2power]

10. Fallujah Redux! Those poor people! Herded around like cattle. Here's an idea....

Stephen Spielberg, Phil Donahue, and various filmmakers should get together and build a virtual reality theme park that's an accurate representation of present-day Iraq.

You know...foreign troops screaming at you in a language you don't understand, gunfire and bombs everywhere, the smell of raw sewage, headless bodies lying around, the screams of dying children, blood & gore etc.

And EVERY FSCKING ADULT AMERICAN should be forced to spend one day there. No exceptions.

Oh yeah...no water bottles allowed. There should be water fountains that provide the smallest trickle of water...sometimes. And from time to time the lights go out and this whole scenario is played out in utter darkness.

Because of the Bushco thugs killing journalists who try to get the word out, Americans know NOTHING of what it's really like. They should be forced to experience it. Then see how often we hear, "USA, USA, Booya!!!"

I'm so goddamn sick and tired of this!! :mad: :grr: :banghead: