Molly Bingham and Steve Connors were there. Their award-winning new film, Meeting Resistance, offers a very different picture than we've seen before, and it's just been released on DVD.
GRITtv: Who Is The Iraqi Resistance? Beyond the Pentagon SpinBy: Laura Flanders Wednesday May 28, 2008 10:12 am |
Iran, Al-Qaeda, Saddam's "dead-enders"... you'd have a pretty muddled picture of who's fighting in Iraq if you only read the headlines in American media. Five years ago, President Bush was declaring "Mission Accomplished," at the same time Iraqis were already mobilizing to oppose U.S. occupation.
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Molly Bingham does her father and grandfather proud!
So Laura, how many copies of the DVD are being sent to GEN Petraeus and the rest of the head-in-sand commanders in Irak?
Excellent segment. Can’t wait to see the film. Thanks.
“How much control of the information do we want the Military to have?”
Zero.
The very best reporting done during Vietnam was by the independent press reporting what they actually witnesseed.
And it’s the same in Irak. Dahr Jamil and folks like htese are proof.
Funny how every single person I’ve seen without an agenda says get out, totally out. I wonder what we should do?
I didn’t know she was Barry Junior’s daughter. I remember he was something of a francophile, and then there was the nutty moustache.
errr
trick question?
you mean somebody doesn’t know the answer to this?
you mean “what color is george washington’s white horse?”
the Iraqi’s are behind the Iraqi resistance
and any patriots of any country would mount an insurgency if a foreing country overthrew their government and stole the treasure
this is not rocket science is it
the administration has decided to call all insurgents, no matter what the group, “al qaeda”
BBC:
let me elaborate on this;
it is IMPOSSIBLE to win any “occupation” you either lose or you anialate those people, they do not want you there and they will continue to want their land and their assets back, there is no “winning”, you ALWAYS negotiate a truce or you lose or you anialate
now, that being obvious once told, let’s look at what the administration has done to show every single IRaqi he is NOT their benfactor and he has NO intention of “winning their hearts and minds”
you CANNOT POSSIBLY “win the hearts and minds of a land when you are KNOWN to torture their people, when you are KNOWN to hold innocents and give them no hope to prove that they are innocent
and you CANNOT be considered their “benefactor” when you allow their infrastructure to be destroyed, when you encourage one group to overwhelm other groups of people
the ONLY reason to use tactics that include torture is when you DO NOT WANT TO WIN THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS
becuase once you are known to endorse torture you have created far more enemies who will commit far more acts of terror then you make believe you have solved with “information from torture”
not only do you get LESS information from torture, you also cause MORE acts against you
AND EVERYONE IN THE ADMINISTRATION KNOWS THIS
and they are encouraging middle east unrest, they even bragged that’s what they wanted to do on the web site of the sick maniacal fraternity they are all a member, the PNAC
rant/over
And, by extension, calls every dead body an insurgent.
dead = insurgent = al Qaida
I’m tryin’ to think where I’ve since this spin before.
Petreaus and other members of the general staff are trying to convince themselves that they can prove to history that they can defeat a nationalist insurgency with occupation troops. And like France in Algeria and the US in Viet Nam they are doomed to failure. Ain’t gonna happen. Was never gonna happen. They don’t teach these subjects at military academies to kill time.
you cannot “win” an occupation, you MUST negotiate the peace or you must anialate those people
NOBODY wants another country running their government and stealing their treasure
you negotiate a peace, you lose or you anialate
those are the options
edit - I’ve
sinceheard this spin before.Sheesh, and I even used mah bes fren preview
You miss my point and you’re repeating yourself.
So now we do to Iraq what the English Empire did to the colonist: “mercantile the Iraqi’s and rape them for ooooiiilll”
Kings Dukes and corporate cohorts in colonial crime rape Americans and Iraqis in kind. Under the pretense of protection, raped many a times in the interest of profit, corporate kind! Human nature has not changed since Jefferson’s time!!!!!
It is obvious the “fascist-neo-cons” have forgotten our own history of resistance against the British Colonial Empire. These “fascist-neocons” are fucking abject losers who just like an alcohol addicted brainwashed dysfunctional individual, see no farther than the cost of a six pack and the gas they need to purchase, to get a six pack! Bush and his regressive fascist scumbag cohorts in colonial crime are aristo-corporate criminals who have usurped the constitution to protect status quo energy interests. Once again the worst fears of our republic as expressed by Washington and Jefferson have been exposed and must be removed from power and identified as the treasonous traders/traitors to the “Republic” they are!!!
Natural Selection Corporate T(r)eason “Executive Oil” and the “Iraq Oil Plot?”
A hard-refresh will solve a few duplication problems. Thanks.
Here’s a chilling thought:
Someone who was 12 when the country was invaded is now ‘of age’ - joining up to fight in the resistance against US forces. The filmmakers talk to ordinary folks, not Al-Q, Baathists, “dead-enders” and Iran.