Moore's Minutemen

Michael Moore compared them with the Minutemen.

Less egregiously, a commenter on a previous post repeated a meme that the leftymedia have been pimping for the past week or so:

An occupying soldier who shoots an unarmed wounded man in the head is responding naturally. So what would be the "natural" response to having your entire block leveled by bombs and seeing your friends and family reduced to collateral damage? Something a little more extreme and protracted, perhaps?

In other words, the people of Fallujah were rising up against the violence of the US assault on Fallujah. Right?

Not so fast.

Times Online - World

Mutilated bodies dumped on Fallujah's bombed out streets today painted a harrowing picture of eight months of rebel rule.

Minutemen. Wow.

Two female bodies found yesterday suggest such threats were far from idle. An Arab woman, in a violet nightdress, lay in a post-mortem embrace with a male corpse in the middle of the street. Both bodies had died from bullets to the head.

Just six metres away on the same street lay the decomposing corpse of a blonde-haired white woman, too disfigured for swift identification but presumed to be the body of one of the many foreign hostages kidnapped by the rebels.

Of course, Fallujans hate Americans.

Right?

Such is the fear that the heavily armed militants held over Fallujah that many of the residents who emerged from the ruins welcomed the US marines, despite the massive destruction their firepower had inflicted on their city.

A man in his sixties, half-naked and his underwear stained with blood from shrapnel wounds from a US munition, cursed the insurgents as he greeted the advancing marines on Saturday night.

"I wish the Americans had come here the very first day and not waited eight months," he said, trembling. Nearby, a mosque courtyard had been used as a weapons store by the militants.

Perhaps they should have.

And perhaps having an example to show the world - what a depraved, vile group these thugs are - will be something for the Arab world to learn from.

Posted by Mitch at November 18, 2004 06:02 AM | TrackBack