U.S. battles militants in Baghdad (Sadr City)

[Nambe]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP)

U.S. and Iraqi forces clashed with militants loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq's capital on Saturday, officials and witnesses said.

U.S. soldiers in Humvees drove through the troubled Sadr City slum with loudspeakers, demanding people stay home because coalition forces were "cleaning the area of armed men," according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene. Sporadic gunfire could be heard. ..

Now Our War Is With Karma

[LauraK]

1. It looks like we followed them home. So much for treaties.

I wonder if we've tried bringing jobs instead of bullets to the ghetto.

[Disturbed]

2. Neo Fascists

The US Neo Fascists are only interested in domination of Iraq. Just like here in Amerika, the Neo Fascist don't give a damn about people.

[jackofhearts]

3. This is the ghastly truth

Their disregard for human suffering is on par with the Nazis, Stalin and OBL and his suicide bombers. They clearly just do not give a shit about the chaos, death and destruction they have brought to bear upon the people of Iraq. If their agenda was so fucking noble why don't they get the fuck out? we got Hussien...no WMD...we put a "government" in place so why don't we save our soldiers lives and legs and arms and eyes and get the hell out? Why...because we want their land and their oil plain and simple. Anyone who cannot see thru the lies and spin to the truth can only be brain washed. This is the only explanation...the republicans have literally brainwashed the public with the constant lying and repeating of the lies. And innocent people die a horrible death every day for the actions of the New Republican Nazis.

And to think the people of Amerika may actually keep these terrorists in office...and that so many of them call themselves Christians. There are no words to describe my feelings toward these people. It is to the point where I cannot even look a bush supporter in the eye...they all have the blood of our soldiers and innocent Iraqi children and mothers and fathers on their hands.

[cenacle]

4. No, We're Not...

going to keep them in power, we're going to wrest some of the power too easily ceded to them back, call it a mantra and keep it, people have the power, people have the power, people have the power...some are calling the fall 2004 US election one of the most important events in modern human history, and OK I'm ready to go with that, and all I can say is this:

FUCK CYNICISM
FUCK DESPAIR
FUCK THE DESPOTS
FUCK THEIR THUGS

call it a mantra and keep it close, people have the power, people have the power, people have the power, do you plan on dancing like madman and/or madwoman on election night to our victory? do you plan on knowing the whole world will be dancing? the whole world dancing, just like silly pop songs only i think it will be true that night!

there are people watching us in the US all over the world, millions of them, waiting to see what we'll do...is this the Empire it seems or something even vaguely like the democratic republic of its own best longings and hopes, OK, gents & ladies, we get a day to tot up the answer...

call it a mantra, and carry it in your heart by the clubs of cops and through the metal detectors of airports and into interviews with FBI provocateurs and throughout your filmed, spied-upon, noted and denoted day:

people have the power
people have the power
people have the power!

[newyawker99]

5. HI jackofhearts!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[dArKeR]

6. Shiites, US troops battle in Sadr City

A sabotaged oil pipeline burns near Um Alubeid village 40km southeast of Baghdad on Friday.
PHOTO: EPA
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/photo/2004/08/29/2003147177

Shiite militants and US forces battled yesterday in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy eastern Baghdad neighborhood in a new round of violence in the capital that left five people dead and dozens wounded, officials said.

The violence came as war-weary Iraqis in the holy city of Najaf returned to their devastated offices and shops after three weeks of clashes there ended with a peace agreement.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2004/08/29/2003200682

[mbperrin]

7. "cleaning the area of armed men,"

Doesn't CLEANING usually involve REMOVING rubble and wreckage, instead of CREATING it?

Just askin'. All I've got are 2 degrees in English, so WTF would I know compared to * and his lackeys?