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April 02, 2003
Cheers and Smiles for U.S. Troops in a Captured City
NAJAF, Iraq, April 2 — Hundreds of American troops marched into town at midday today and were greeted by its residents. The infantry was backed by attack helicopters and bombers, and immediately destroyed several arms caches and took over a military training facility to serve as their headquarters. The occupying forces, from the First and Second brigades of the 101st Airborne Division, entered from the south and north. They had seized the perimeter of town on Tuesday. People rushed to greet them today, crying out repeatedly, "Thank you, this is beautiful!" Posted By Matt (Overtaken by Events) at April 2, 2003 01:04 PM | TrackBackComments
I've seen more and more of this kind of article. Does anyone know what the anti-war spin is on them? Posted by: Rock Doc at April 2, 2003 01:24 PMPresumably that they are being forced to cheer by US troops threatening to shoot them otherwise. After all, we're no better than Saddam, right? Posted by: Jan Spoor at April 2, 2003 01:40 PMThere is no anti-war spin on these articles because there can be none. And you're right, this does appear to be increasingly common and will likely be even more so. Instead of spinning this, the anti-war crowd is likely to simply move to a different element of the debate, which by the way ended 2 weeks ago anyway. Posted by: Ben Noah at April 2, 2003 01:49 PM"Beautiful" -- the best thing I've heard so far! The anti-liberation crowd must be having a cardiac arrest. Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) at April 2, 2003 01:49 PMBen, the anti-war spin exists. Example: BBC: surely it will turn into a terrorist nightmare. French media (e.g. Le Monde): what liberation? civilians and children are being murdered by Coalition forces. Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) at April 2, 2003 02:02 PMYou'll note the article says "The occupying forces..." Posted by: Lonewacko at April 2, 2003 02:32 PMUm, Lonewackster, I think they used that term for American troops occupying Germany back in WW2, didn't they? I'm not sure if it's deragotory here. "Invaders"; that would be deragotory! :) Posted by: Casey Tompkins at April 2, 2003 02:45 PMOne spin I've already seen several times is that these people will soon turn against us as as occupiers - patriotism and nationalism - you know, the reasons why they're fighting us with such "unanticipated ferocity." The leftists will use this as an argument to call for UN control of Iraq. The left couldn't stop us from winning the war, so they'll try to steal the peace. Post a comment
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