chipichape
Senior Heliman
Location: Vancouver, Canada/Budapest, Hungary
| Hi,
Nothing to say against, after all ~.5k Hungarian soldiers are over there supporting the international forces.
BUT
~1 month ago a (Hungarian, but this is not relevant) guy was shot dead by US forces in Iraq (BTW he was a civilian contractor of an US military support company).
After some investigation the case looked like this (there were witnesses around): US forces found someting strange next to a highway in the outskirt of Bagdag during the night (no public lights available). Hence they quickly set up a roadblock - means they put a Hummer accross the highway - with lights off. The guy just drove his car back from work (with high speed since they were on the highway) carrrying his translator and some other local guys, none of them saw the Hummer across the road, neither the first warning shots...
...half an our later another car (carrying local Iraqis) were shot to pieces at the same roadblock.
Now why I tell you this story guys - after all you can say the guy took the risk when he went there...
...but the Iraqi people do not, they just live there. In this part of the world (I am in the Emirates now) people do count the number of iraqi civilians killed by US troops, too. (and that is a high figure..., even it is not published by CNN)
The physic is understandable (shoot before someone shoot me), but (IMHO) this is the point where we can loose the Iraqi people and consequently Iraq at all. We should learn from the history - no one could ever kept a country for long without the support of local people.
(Do you now that the iraqi sleng refers to US troops as "pigs" and that the majority of Iraqi people consider the US troops as occupying forces? - these are unfortunately facts - even if we don't like them)
So when you are watching such videos and comment like above, please think twice - every Iraqi civilians killed over there makes the death of an allied soldier meaningless...
Chip |
