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Hundreds in Fallujah burn U.S. flag to celebrate troops pulling out of Iraq
National Post ^ | Dec 14, 2011 | Agence France-Presse

Posted on 12/14/2011 7:11:21 AM PST by LibFreeUSA

FALLUJAH, Iraq — Hundreds of Iraqis set alight U.S. and Israeli flags on Wednesday as they celebrated the impending pullout of American forces from the country in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah. Shouting slogans in support of the “resistance,” the demonstrators held up banners and placards inscribed with phrases like, “Now we are free” and “Fallujah is the flame of the resistance.” Surrounded by the Iraqi army, demonstrators carried posters bearing photos of apparent insurgents, faces covered and carrying weapons. They also held up pictures of U.S. soldiers killed and military vehicles destroyed in the two major offensives against the city in 2004.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: endofiraqwar; fallujah; flagburning; iraq; iraqwarover; usaidtomuslims
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To: LibLieSlayer

Lib....I’m so completely disgusted with the lot of them...including the woman they constantly throw out there for sympathy. Doesn’t work now for me.....I simply don’t care if they are brutilized or abused...to them it’s a lifestyle and I say let them keep it. They are a sadistic people who have no reason or sense of life and glory in death. I’m done with them entirely...let them rot in their own filth. Worse then the scum of the earth. Full of hate and care not for it otherwise.


21 posted on 12/14/2011 7:44:22 AM PST by caww
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To: PieterCasparzen

.....two soldiers in the left of the picture

Enlarge that pic... The one without the helmet looks American, close cropped hair and what looks like a unit patch on his right sleeve....


22 posted on 12/14/2011 7:44:44 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: LibFreeUSA
Hundreds in Fallujah burn U.S. flag to celebrate troops pulling out of Iraq and the _resident says "Mission Accomplished"
23 posted on 12/14/2011 7:45:20 AM PST by NonValueAdded ("Centralization destroys the blight of monopoly")
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To: LibFreeUSA

We should send them a new tyrant just like Saddam. Maybe they’ll appreciate what we did for them.


24 posted on 12/14/2011 7:47:47 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Robe

what does an American look like?


25 posted on 12/14/2011 7:52:23 AM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: caww

I agree with you 1000%!

LLS


26 posted on 12/14/2011 7:58:40 AM PST by LibLieSlayer ("Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness." Ronaldo Magnus)
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To: LibFreeUSA

There was some small good that came from our intervention. The Kurds have mostly benefited (themselves) by being cut loose from the arabs. Whether they’ll be left alone to thrive is another matter but the start was good. My son deployed twice first to the N in a Kurdish area and then to the south with the arabs. He generally liked the Kurds and their time there was mostly peaceful b/c they (Kurds) didn’t put up w/ the crap going on in the arab areas. His second deployment was vastly different in a negative sense.


27 posted on 12/14/2011 8:00:14 AM PST by 556x45
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To: LibFreeUSA
sand democrats

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28 posted on 12/14/2011 8:01:04 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

Good Luck, folks, you’re on your own now!!!!


29 posted on 12/14/2011 8:03:41 AM PST by radioone ("2012 can't come soon enough")
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To: LibFreeUSA

So how many billions of dollars in aid will Obama keep pouring in after our troops leave? And how many “civilians” who will train them to fight us and the Israelis?

And how many of the guys in that crowd burning the flags are living on our welfare dollars?

Meanwhile, the Chinese and the French have gotten the oil that we fought for.


30 posted on 12/14/2011 8:04:47 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: LibFreeUSA

Burning “U.S. and Israeli flags”.... sounds suspiciously like it was orchestrated by Iran.


31 posted on 12/14/2011 8:05:13 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: LibFreeUSA

It’s OK. They’ll be killing each other in a month. They are better at it than we are.


32 posted on 12/14/2011 8:07:05 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: Cicero

Is there an Architect in the house?

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/03/karl-rove-admits-mistake-in-advising-bush-on-iraq-invasion-respo/


33 posted on 12/14/2011 8:08:19 AM PST by greenhornet68
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Well said. Eff-um.


34 posted on 12/14/2011 8:09:46 AM PST by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: LibFreeUSA

“Hundreds in Fallujah burn U.S. flag to celebrate troops pulling out of Iraq”

Isn’t hundreds of billions of dollars borrowed from the ChiComs for nation building great?


35 posted on 12/14/2011 8:10:34 AM PST by SharpRightTurn ( White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: LibFreeUSA

I can’t believe any one could be surprised by this. They are Muslims. They are our enemy. This is to be expected.


36 posted on 12/14/2011 8:10:39 AM PST by Prokopton (.)
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To: LibFreeUSA

If only our troops would pile up all the Iraqi flags they could find, and torch them as they are leaving that miserable country! I know it won’t happen, though.


37 posted on 12/14/2011 8:11:34 AM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: LibFreeUSA

And we thought the slaughter in South Vietnam was bad....


38 posted on 12/14/2011 8:12:16 AM PST by onedoug (lf)
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To: LibFreeUSA

In all fairness, it’s short-sighted to let a few hundred in a city thousands drive a wedge between the U.S. and the thousands there who helped us.

It was a staged event to piss off Americans to make sure we never bother to confront Islam again. Judging by the comments here on FR, seems like a lot of you are eager to do as the Islamists want.

Just sayin’.


39 posted on 12/14/2011 8:12:36 AM PST by risen_feenix
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To: LibFreeUSA

Our next military involvement in Iraq should ONLY be from the air!


40 posted on 12/14/2011 8:13:17 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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