Note to Obama - We Were Greeted as Liberators in Iraq.
By 186 on Sep 27, 2008
It drives me crazy when McCain doesn’t call out and debunk nonsensical ignorant left wing talking point myths like “we were not greeted as liberators” in Iraq.
The United States and our troops were greeted as liberators, that’s a fact.
Events that transpired in Iraq following the initial toppling of Saddam Husein due to the lack of any workable plan to control Iraq’s infrastructure and the insurgency is a failure of the administration that is well documented and will be taught in West Point for generations to come as “what not to do”, but to conflate the two is willful ignorance and a slap in the face of the great Men and Women of our Military.
Emotional Torrent Greets G.I. Arrival in Central Baghdad
Much
of Baghdad became, in a moment, a showcase of unbridled enthusiasm for
America, as much as it metamorphosed into a crucible of unbridled
hatred and contempt for Mr. Hussein.When the city awoke to find
that the American capture of the government quarter in west Baghdad on
Monday had been followed overnight by a deep American thrust into the
city’s eastern half, the fear ingrained in most Iraqis by nearly 24
years under Mr. Hussein’s brutally repressive government evaporated, to
be replaced by a bursting, irrepressible urge for freedom, and, among
the looters, a carefree, joyous defiance of law that lapped over, at
many major government buildings, to setting places afire.American
troops, but almost as much any Westerner caught up in the tide of
people rushing into the streets, were met with scenes that summoned
comparisons with Europe’s liberation from the Nazis.Iraqis on
foot, on motorscooters, in cars and minivans and trucks, alone and in
groups, children and adults and elderly, headed for any point on the
map where American troops had taken up positions — at expressway
junctions, outside the United Nations headquarters, at two hotels on
the Tigris River where western newsmen had been sequestered by Mr.
Hussein’s government — and erupted with enthusiasm and gratitude.Shouts
to the American soldiers of “Thank you, mister, thank you,” in English,
of “Welcome, my friend, welcome,” of “Good, good, good,” and “Yes, yes,
mister” mingled with cries of “Good, George Bush!” and “Down Saddam!”
Thanks to Flopping Aces for the video clips.
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