US Forces Didn't Really Hurt Anyone in Iraq


	US Forces Didn't Really Hurt Anyone in Iraq

leevardi

9-15-2009 6:17 AM

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leevardi says:

...according to Reuters...Whew ! that's good news

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fd291e60-47b8-496f-a7b8-c470ce751b43/B89D9F36-9CE7-4B86-9654-BAA1BE0B54ED/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/world/142613/according_to_reuters%2C_u.s._forces_didn%27t_really_hurt_anyone_in_iraq/" href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/world/142613/according_to_reuters%2C_u.s._forces_didn%27t_really_hurt_anyone_in_iraq/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/world/142613/according_to_reuters%2C_u.s._forces_didn%27t_really_hurt_anyone_in_iraq/"><P class="storyheadline">According to Reuters, U.S. Forces Didn't Really Hurt Anyone in Iraq</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/world/142613/according_to_reuters%2C_u.s._forces_didn%27t_really_hurt_anyone_in_iraq/"><P>So, they're finally letting the Iraqi shoe-thrower walk. That year in the slammer ought to teach him what it means to be free!</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/world/142613/according_to_reuters%2C_u.s._forces_didn%27t_really_hurt_anyone_in_iraq/"><P>A minor story in the greater scheme of things. But I was struck by how <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/14/AR2009091401004.html?hpid=moreheadlines"><EM>Reuters</EM></A> characterized the motivation behind the flight of that now-famous footwear:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/world/142613/according_to_reuters%2C_u.s._forces_didn%27t_really_hurt_anyone_in_iraq/"><P>Millions of people across the world saw online or TV footage of Zaidi throwing his shoes at Bush and calling him a "dog," both grave insults in the Middle East.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/world/142613/according_to_reuters%2C_u.s._forces_didn%27t_really_hurt_anyone_in_iraq/"><STRONG>summed up the feelings of many Iraqis toward the former U.S. leader after the bloodshed and sectarian killing triggered by the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/world/142613/according_to_reuters%2C_u.s._forces_didn%27t_really_hurt_anyone_in_iraq/"><P>That, folks, is a passive term -- "bloodshed and sectarian killing <EM>triggered</EM> by the U.S.-led invasion."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/world/142613/according_to_reuters%2C_u.s._forces_didn%27t_really_hurt_anyone_in_iraq/"><P>What's more, Iraqis, according to <EM>Reuters</EM>, don't have a beef with our decision to invade their country, or the fact that we dropped more munitions on them than the allied totals for World War I. 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