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Cheering Baghdad Crowds Greet U.S. Marines

The Truth | 09.04.2003 08:01

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of jubilant Iraqis cheered, danced, waved and threw flowers as U.S. Marines advanced through eastern Baghdad and into the center of President Saddam Hussein's capital on Wednesday.

Reuters correspondent Sean Maguire said crowds mobbed a Marine convoy as it drove through the suburbs to the Martyr's Monument, just two miles east of the central Jumhuriya Bridge over the Tigris river.

"These are quite extraordinary scenes," Maguire said after a morning's drive through first the rundown sprawl of Saddam City and then more prosperous, leafy suburbs.

People, mainly young and middle-aged men were chanting, blowing horns and throwing flowers.

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does it really matter if Soddem has escaped?

09.04.2003 08:22

Yes I'd be grateful and celebrating too, if the USA/UK would cease bombing the fuk out of my district, wouldn't you?. The Iraqi people are not savages, they are a long suffering oppressed peoples, they didn't deserve to have their homes, water and electricity supplies destroyed. There was no need to bomb them into democracy, and now it appears that Soddem has disappeared or escaped. Now Dumbwar Bush says'Does it really matter if soddem has escaped?'. I think it does, because it was supposed to be a war against Soddem, not the long suffering Iraqi people.

stop the spread of mad cowboy disease

truth will take a little longer

09.04.2003 08:34

when the germans invaded italy they were met by crowds of cheering people, the same folks turned up to the welcoming committee for the yankkkees and brits. There then started a long period of yankkkee covert missions designed to keep the communists out and the mafia (DC) in power this lasted for more than 40 years. Berusconi now maintans the DC's mafia traditions .
Once the sceptix have found a "suitable" replacement for Soddoff, their ex partner in crime, and yankkky corporaions have pillaged anything worth shite in the country
iraqies will be able to taste ramsfeld and perles version of democracy with macdonalds doing the catering ..
of course all the undesirables will be rounded up and humanely shot after a spot of torture . The outside world will be told that these people were saddams henchman but
many of them will be from left wing "oppostion" and trade unions which will never be allowed in a world controlled by
the coalition of the KKK and ZIONAZIS

catch 22

Cheering can be taken two ways

09.04.2003 08:50

The Iraqi people a used to cheering or waving it's a survival tactic, if you waving and smiling your not a threat, Saddam and the US look for the same signs and target those who appear angry, don't be fooled look behind appearences. Next to atract your attention "US says the new Iraqi democratic government has decided that it is imperative to privatise Iraqi oil, Us companies have tendered for the contracts and will pay fairly a royalti to the new Iraqi adminastration so that it may afford to feed it's people who are the priority after all.

Jon wood

If an invading army was rolling past in...

09.04.2003 09:20

high-tech killing machines I would fucking wave, smile and cheer. How else to ensure they don't vaporise me and my family? Wouldn't stop me from shooting the fuckers one by one while they are off duty after a couple of months of occupation.

Revenge is a dish best served cold...

Bring the troops home!

Dannyboy

Those who couldn't cheer

09.04.2003 09:28

Those who couldn't cheer wanted to stick their middle fingers up the "liberators" - that is because they lost their limbs and lost their families who were "liberated".

No doubt in the months to come, Iraq will be like Afghanistan - full of unfinished business, revenge - the "liberators" there can't move two yards from their bases without getting first-class tickets to hell, and forever they have to watch out for especially people waving flowers and cheering... Even donkeys attempt suicide bombings on the "liberators".

...and they too laugh - HEEEHEEEHAWWHEEEHAWWW...!!!!!!

Ya plonkhead - Rueters is a Brit propaganda machine!!!

RentaJubilantMob

Iraqis Cheer - Nihilistic Leftists Cry

09.04.2003 10:08

First the Soviet Union, now Iraq. Why can't we be right for once?

Mike

Did Reuters report this before or after they

09.04.2003 10:09

Did Reuters report this before or after they were targeted with bombs by the US?

news

I agree...

09.04.2003 10:10

I agree with all the above comments. How can the Reuters journalist know about what's really happening in Iraq? Just because he's in the centre of Baghdad, surrounded by Iraqis, living next to them, watching the troops go in, talking to contacts, calling on probably years of experience of middle east politics, doesn't mean he knows anything more than the rest of us. Me and my friends often talk about Iraq and have been for several weeks - sometimes for several minutes at a time - I think we know just as much.

Paul Edwards

Fuck off mate

09.04.2003 10:35

Reuters is a filthy lie machine who's reporters have very little understanding of the issues they bleat about.

"Arab world riven by fury and despair
Sense of humiliation matched by thoughts of revenge"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,932747,00.html

"For Arabs, a sense of humiliation is added to decades of frustration"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,932785,00.html

“In America it looks heroic, but in the Arab world it looks like slaughter,” he said. “The American public does not understand the level of hatred growing in the Muslim world as a result of this war.”

http://english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp?cu_no=1&item_no=1895&version=1&template_id=277&parent_id=258

I bet you will say Al Jazeera reporters do not understand the Arab mindset next!

We will be paying for this for years to come. I had always wanted to travel in the Middle East. Fat chance of that now, even if I walk around wearing a t-shirt that says "I'm sorry" in Arabic I'll probably be stabbed outside my hotel on the first night.