This from the Iraqi police, who the US has been “accidentally” killing lately, putting local anger at occupying forces through the roof:
"We shouted at them that we were police, but they killed us anyway because they hate us. They hate us because we don't co-operate with them.I am full of hatred for the Americans and I am ready to kill them. All Fallujah people are Mujahidin and they care only about killing Americans. We don't care about their powerful weapons, because we know that if we die we will become martyrs.
I am proud of [the guerrillas who kill Americans], because those people are taking revenge on the Americans. They will continue with more and more attacks in the future."
Painted on the walls of Fallujah is the slogan, “US Army will pay blood for oil”; to this, Paul Bremer replied (my paraphrase), “I don't know why they're still upset about this. We said we were sorry.”
Other than that today is the vote (more, more) on Bush's new “usable nukes” (more)… Useable nukes? The whole point of nuclear weapons is that they are not useable — in theory (emphasis on “theory”) they avert war by escalating war to a level where everyone loses. Building “smaller” nukes just guarantees nuclear war. Not a good thing!
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