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gsmoove23
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Originally posted by DanS
Why didn't the US forces in Baghdad stop looting and maintain order?
Because it isn't that important. Most of these looters appear to have been looking for a souvenir from a regime that they hated. No different than US soldiers taking a poster of Saddam as a memento of their time there.
Rummy is precisely right. Freedom also gives you the choice to do bad things. Most will settle into self-policing pretty soon and these problems will mostly go away. The Imams probably reminded everybody at Friday prayers that stealing is a bad thing to do.
It also appears that many are aimlessly wandering the capital looking for imprisoned or lost relatives and the like. Or they are curious about Hussein's palaces and just want to see how the bastard lived. Most are harmless and who would want to stop them from doing what they feel like doing anyway? Let them drink it in. |
Nope, most are getting whatever they can. Small businesses, hospitals, the national museum, the treasury, banks. Local groups have already organized to stop it, which is called vigilantism and which suggests that ordinary people are also the targets of it. Why do people keep coming on here saying the same things when its been demonstrated otherwise?
The troops have to do something, shooting isn't necessary though. They could detain large amounts of people to be released in a couple of days, hopefully in a calmer atmosphere.
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gsmoove23
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Looting of public property always needs to be discouraged. Who gives a **** if the Baath party used it before, its the Iraqi peoples and it will be needed shortly, I'm not at all happy to see it go into the hands of rioters and looters.
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gsmoove23
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neighborhood watches... what do you call them when they start beatings and lynchings?
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gsmoove23
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and a pinch is anarchy.
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Ned
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of Aptos, CA
Oct 1999
time: 21:27
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Originally posted by MarkG
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Most of these looters appear to have been looking for a souvenir from a regime that they hated. |
like medicines from hospitals, desks and pc's from embassies, anything you can imagine from stores, etc  |
I agree, Mark, that we should provide immediate security to hospitals, private stores and private banks. But, let the German, French and Russian embassies defend themselves, if they can, against the anger of the Iraqi people who justly are angry at their support of the monster Saddam.
As to the government facilities, I say, "Loot them, sack them, burn them!" The people need their revenge.
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gsmoove23
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German and French are still our NATO allies. Failing to defend them is a whole different matter then them failing to join us in what they consider a war of aggression.
Yes, the troops are not enough, the american war machine might have charged ahead to quickly, extended it self too far in the hopes of keeping this war palatable to the public.
The only thing left to do is rush more troops as quickly as possible.
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gsmoove23
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Kramerman,
Justice has a way of killing people sometimes, even with non-lethal weapons, but if done carefully then the shouts of those angry at americans will be drowned out by those who are happy to have their private property protected. Nobody's saying its an easy job, just that we don't have a choice but to do it. We chose(supposedly) to be here.
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12-04-2003 22:13
The looters even target hospitals (What the bloody hell?) and ordinary people are afraid. 
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