اقتباس:خطأ أمريكي بحل الجيش العراقي
حل الأميركان للجيش العراقي قبل أن يصبح خطئآ تكتيكيآ كان بالأصل هدفآ استراتيجيآ.
في عاصفة الصحراء لم يحارب الجيش العراقي وأصدر صدام له أوامر بالاستسلام بعد فنرة وجيزة من بدء القتال وبدأ انسحابه من الكويت بعد ساعات من شن الأميركان هجماتهم الجوية ..قطعات كاملة من الجيش قضت محترقة وهي على أرض العراق وقد أدارت ظهرها للكويت عائدة منسحبة. فيما يمكن اعتباره مجازر جماعية.. كما فهمت من قراءات عدة أنه في" أدبيات الحروب"ا-لمتعارف عليها في تراث البشر الوحشي الحربي المعاصر- عرف بأن لا تهاجم الجيوش التي استسلمت وأخلت الأرض التي تحتلها..
في عاصفة الصحراء مات 200 ألف جندي عراقي مقابل 120 جندي أميركي أغلبهم وقعوا بنيران صديقة... عدد الأسرى كان قليلآ قياسآ بحجم الاستسلامات لأن نورمان شوارزكوف طبق ماعرف بالحرب النظيفة بلا دماء ولا أسرى أو جرحى فكان يتم ردم الجرحى أو الأسرى أحياء في رمال الصحراء بالجرافات الضخمة..**
تدمير الجيش العراقي للأبد كان مهمآ جدآ للأميركان وبأي كلفة بشرية , ولا أظن أن تدجينه لأداء مهمات الأمن خطر على بالهم حتى
اقتباس:ما حدث في 2003 كان تحولا منظما من الجيش من الحرب التقليدية إلى حرب المقاومة الشعبية تم الإعداد له مسبقا أو ما يعرف بحرب العصابات و ليس هزيمة أو انهيارا باعتراف العدو قبل الصديق ، بناء تنظيمات للمقاومة يحتاج إلى سنين
وكيف ظهرت إذآ كل تلك العصابات الإ جرامية الطائفية التي تستهدف المدنيين من خلال تفجيرات كبيرة خلال شهور قلائل ولم تحتج إلى تنظيم سنين وخطط عبقرية كالتي توحي بوجودها؟
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[CENTER]War without death
The Pentagon promotes a vision of combat as bloodless and antiseptic[/CENTER]http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...178228.DTL
[CENTER]مجازر البصرة[/CENTER]
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com...ex.php/Gulf_War
Atrocities
We hear all about those "mass graves", but what Bush isn't saying is how many America put into those graves.
Iraq's infra-structure, crops, livestock, hospitals, water supply, electrical grid, all were targets of US bombings, an effort to "demoralize civilians of Iraq and accelerate the sanctions" that were to come, admitted the Pentagon.
Many observers commented that the 1991 Gulf conflict was not a 'war' in the conventional sense: throughout its most decisive phase -- from the beginning of the air strikes on 16 January to the onset of the Coalition ground offensive on 24 February -- allied aircraft ranged over the whole of Iraq, bombing at will (by the end of February well over 100,000 air sorties had been flown).
As early as September of 1990, Air Force Chief of Staff Michael Dugan told reporters that, as far as targets went, the "cutting edge would be downtown Baghdad."
The Washington Post reported that the list of targets Dugan proposed included Iraqi power grids, roads, railroads, and "perhaps" domestic petroleum production facilities.
Within days of that statement, Dugan was fired.
In late January 1991, after two weeks of bombing, the London Times observed that allied attacks were closely following Dugan’s description, "with the liberation of Kuwait as only part of the overall plan."
At 2:30 a.m. on 17 January 1991 the bombs began to fall, and for forty-two days U.S. aircraft attacked Iraq on an average of once every thirty seconds.
There were two thousand air strikes in the first twenty-four hours. More than 90 percent of Iraq’s electrical capacity was bombed out of service in the first few hours. Within several days, "not an electron was flowing." Multimillion-dollar missiles targeted power plants up to the last days of the war, to leave the country without power as economic sanctions sapped life from the survivors. In less than three weeks the U.S. press reported military calculations that the tonnage of high-explosive bombs already released had exceeded the combined allied air offense of World War II.
By the end of the aerial assault, 110,000 aircraft sorties had dropped 88,500 tons of bombs on Iraq, the equivalent of seven and a half atomic bombs of the size that incinerated Hiroshima.
http://www.iacenter.org/fireice.htm
By LynnTheDem (From original post (
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis...z=view_all&address=104x3135341))
[edit]Thousands of Iraqi troops were buried alive in their trenches, with US troops bulldozing over top of them
"Many Iraqi soldiers were killed by the simple expedient of burying them alive: in one report, American earthmovers and ploughs mounted on tanks were used to attack more than 70 miles of trenches. Colonel Anthony Moreno commented that for all he knew, 'we could have killed thousands'.
One US commander, Colonel Lon Maggart, estimated that his forces alone had buried about 650 Iraqi soldiers.
"What you saw was a bunch of buried trenches with peoples arms and things sticking out of them,' observed Moreno.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=45
The US Pentagon defended this atrocity, saying there was a "gap" in international law that allowed for burying the troops alive.
http://jeff.paterson.net/aw/aw4_buried_alive.htm
By LynnTheDem (From original post (
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis...z=view_all&address=104x3135341))
[edit]Then there was the Basra massacre, aka The Highway of Death.
Main article: The Basra Massacre
On March 2, 1991, Iraq announced over public radio that it was withdrawing from Kuwait. The surrendering soldiers, as well as families of Iraq and other nations seeking to escape the US ariel bombings, went down the Basra road to Southern Iraq.
Above them, the U.S. bombed both ends of the highway, ensuring that there would be no escape from what was to follow. Along the seven-mile stretch, the U.S. then killed thousands. On some planes, the PA system bleated out Rossini’s William Tell Overture (the Lone Ranger theme).
WARNING: SHOCKING PHOTOS
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt04.html
The Highway of Death
“Even in Vietnam I didn’t see anything like this. It’s pathetic.“ — Major Bob Nugent, Army intelligence officer.
WARNING: SHOCKING PHOTOS
http://free.freespeech.org/americanstatete...wayofDeath.html
Continued at: The Basra Massacre