Liberating Iraqis...From Their Homes
IOUs for Looting
By DAVID LINDORFF
As the U.S. Army's Seventh Combat Support Group, a unit of the Third
Infantry Division, moved northward in the Arabian desert west of the
Euphrates River towards the town of Najaf on March 26, the commander,
realizing his exhausted men faced shortages of food and water, was
looking for a place of refuge. He found it in the form of two Bedouin
families.
Drew Brown, reporter from Knight Ridder News Service who was embedded
with the unit, reported that Col. John P. Gardner ordered the two
families to leave their land and turn it over to his men. He reportedly
gave them "receipts" for the tents, dogs, chickens, bowls, pots
and other possessions they left behind--receipts that neither he nor
anyone else could tell them how they could redeem--and sent them off
"befuddled" into the desert.
If any incident illustrates the true nature of the Anglo-U.S. invasion of
Iraq, this one is it. A modern army unit, bristling with the latest in
high-tech, high-powered weaponry, purportedly in the country to
"liberate" the natives from the tyrant who "enslaves"
them, summarily casts two defenseless groups of men, women and children
out of their homes into the barren desert, handing them worthless IOUs
for their trouble.
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