Nowhere is the Zionist propaganda more apparent than the MSM stories on Iraq, readers.
So NO ONE DIED in Iraq yesterday, 'eh, MSM?
Yup, no wonder the American public ate the shit surge propaganda.
Gobbled it up, in fact!
"In Sunni enclave, safety hinges on empowering civilians" by Ann M. Simmons, Los Angeles Times | December 31, 2007
YOUSIFIYA, Iraq - The process is sometimes messy, but US military officials and Iraqi military leaders say they are slowly making progress. Part of that messy process is to teach these local leaders, steeped in age-old tribal culture based on patronage, corruption, and fear, to lead in more effective, democratic and law-abiding ways.
Is that just flat-out WESTERN HYPOCRISY and RACISM or what, readers?
Gotta hand it to the Jew War Dailies, don't you?!
Excuse me, readers, I gotta go puke!
Army Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Rohling, commander of the 3d Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, and a Milwaukee native:
"It's a cultural challenge. In the end they will need to follow our plan, but we've got to make them feel that it's their plan."
You know, maybe you guys can BULLSHIT the 'Murkn shit-eating public all the time, but my sense is that foreigners DON'T EAT THAT SHIT, 'Murkn!!!!!!!
So KNOCK IT OFF!
The local government council has proved to be largely ineffectual, the commander pointed out.
Corruption is rife, and some officials are known to be profiting from the sales of seed and grain intended for the population.
Yeah, so that is different rom AmeriKa how?
Progress is slow. On a recent day, for example, a few patrons trickled into the well-known Yousifiya market. In safer times, Starz said, about 10,000 customers per day passed through the throng of hawkers and maze of stalls selling a colorful array of vegetables, fruit, and clothes."
Ooooooh, I am SO SICK of being LIED TO by the AmeriKan government and its propaganda horns in the MSM, readers.
I mean, really!
"Hussein anniversary passes quietly in Iraq" by Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times | December 31, 2007
BAGHDAD - Hundreds of mourners visited the tomb of Saddam Hussein yesterday to light candles and recite the Koran in memory of the ousted dictator who was hanged one year ago.
Security forces braced for possible attacks in Baghdad and the Sunni Arab heartland north of the capital, where Hussein's execution heightened the alienation many Sunnis feel under Iraq's new Shi'ite rulers.
Driving bans were imposed in the flash-point cities of Baiji and Dour to ward against car bombs, and extra checkpoints went up in and around Tikrit. But there were no reports of violence associated with the anniversary.
In Al Auja, Hussein's birthplace on the outskirts of Tikrit, schoolchildren lit candles in the hall where the dictator was laid to rest. Hundreds visited the tomb covered with flowers and the Iraqi flag. Residents chafed at the beefed-up security presence in their village.
Thamer Baker, an unemployed former civil servant from Hussein's Albu Nasir tribe:
"We were surprised with these measures taken by the government, curfews in some areas and the blockage of various streets. Why? Do they fear us? Where is the democracy they talk about?"
In the chaos of competing armed factions and near-daily bombings across Iraq, there are some who hanker for the comparative stability of Hussein's regime.
Yup, bunch of them nostalgic for the old days, before Bush's "liberation!"
Saif Nateek, a policeman from Hussein's tribe:
"He was not a dictator. He was able to keep this country united, to hold it with a firm grip."
Even in Shi'ite parts of Iraq, which suffered most under Hussein's regime, it was a day that many preferred to forget.
Abed Hadi Hussein, a Shi'ite security guard who lives in the vast Baghdad slum known as Sadr City:
"This is a bad memory to have during the Eid days, and we want to erase it from our history. We want to turn a new page among the people . . . We don't want to make this day a divisive day."
Ziad Tariq, a Sunni civil servant in Baghdad, forgot about the anniversary:
"People don't want to be reminded about sad things."
The anniversary passed without comment on state-run television and in parliament."
Yeah, this another reason I don't buy the sectarianism lie put forth by the stinking Jew MSM!
And how about the best job in Iraq, readers?!
Street sweeper, street sweeper!
"For Iraqi Street Cleaners, Scraps Include Human Flesh" by STEPHEN FARRELL
BAGHDAD — It must be a candidate for the worst job in Iraq.
It falls to Baghdad’s street sweepers to pick up the fingertips and scraps of flesh left behind after the emergency workers haul away the torsos and heads of bombing victims. They do the job without gloves, in all but the coldest weeks of winter.
If the attack comes while they are off duty, they get roughly $8 extra for cleaning up. Despite the grisly work, and the sadness at the deaths, that is a welcome sum when they are each paid about $6 a day. There were many such bomb bonuses paid in 2007, though markedly fewer than in past years.
This is disgusting!
Not only the "work," but the fact that a culture has been brutally assaulted and destroyed.
Look at what Bush's "liberation" has done to Iraq, readers!
But on Sunday, at year’s end, two municipal street cleaners, Imad al-Hashemi and Laith Mahdi Latif, said the bonuses would be something they could happily live without in 2008.
They were outside the Faqma ice cream shop in early August, when at least 15 people were killed at one of central Baghdad’s most popular refreshment spots in the Karada district; outside the numerous attempts on the Sayyed Idris shrine nearby; and at the market where more than a dozen people were blown up on Dec. 5. Across town, their colleagues had to clear up Ghazil animal market last month, and Tayaraan Square last Friday, hurling bags of debris into a battered white Scania truck after a car bomber killed eight people.
Mr. Hashemi: “Things have got better over the last few months, maybe 70 percent, and God willing, they will be better again next year. Although we get a 10,000 dinar bonus” — about $8 — “for each bomb, we do not want to see explosions, we don’t want to see this. They are Iraqis, Sunni, Shia or Christian, they are all Iraqis.”
More "sectarianism" put to rest, readers!
Oh, what a ZIONIST LIE you have been sold about Muslim division, 'Murkn shit-eater.
Go ahead, eat your fill, 'Murkn (chomp, chomp).
Shrugging, the two cleaners, whose hands look like those of men twice their 40 years or so, concede that it is not much of a job. But it is at least employment in a country where that is scarce.
Like it is a GOOD THING, huh?
I'll tell you what, NYT, how about RAISING Saddam from the grave, huh, and giving him the country back (although he probably wouldn't want it)?
Because the shape Iraq is in now is MUCH WORSE, assholes!
Thanks, NYT!
Thanks for printing lies so Bush could sell his invasion!
Thanks a lot!
Each has lost count of the number of bombs they have swept up. At least 10, Mr. Hashemi estimates. Maybe six in the past 18 months, Mr. Latif guesses, although he concedes that all but the worst details fade for the two, both veterans of Saddam Hussein’s military campaigns.
And now they are street-sweepers!
Mr. Hashemi: “This is normal for me. I was a soldier for eight years in Basra and Amara during the Iran war. Sometimes it does make you depressed; I was standing 50 meters away from one car when it blew up, and I saw heads cut off from bodies. It was disgusting.”
As residents of Karada they are on night call when the other cleaners have gone home to Sadr City or elsewhere.
Mr. Latif, as soon as he hears a bomb, stops everything and waits for the phone call, which inevitably comes:
“The worst one was at Al Faqma. There was this woman, she was dying and they couldn’t pull her out because the driver’s seat trapped her against the steering wheel.”
Both reiterate that they hope, and expect, things to get better.
Mr. Hashemi concedes he thought the same thing after the Iran-Iraq war, but then:
“I thought after we finished that, that there would be no more killing, no wars, and after 1991.”
You didn't count on George W. Bush, did you, sir?
Neither did we!
Elsewhere in Iraq, on the first anniversary of Mr. Hussein’s execution, fears of violence proved largely unfounded, amid tight security. Hundreds of supporters, including schoolchildren who were given the day off, gathered at the mausoleum erected over the grave in his hometown, Awja. Many laid flowers while others recited poetry or chanted."