To force yourself as unwanted guest

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Dhiya Hamid al-Karbuli, a truck dri­ver from a vil­lage near the Syr­ian bor­der, said he fled with his wife, six chil­dren, his brother, sis­ter and mother after U.S. troops com­man­deered their home last month.

They broke into my house before Ramadan and they are still there,” he told The Asso­ci­ated Press by tele­phone from his brother’s home in Bagh­dad. “We were not able to tol­er­ate see­ing them dam­age our house in front of our very eyes.… I was afraid to ask them to leave.”

They were eat­ing our food. They took all the food from the refrig­er­a­tor, and used all our stored junk food too. The major gave me $20 so we could shop for our­selves and for them. It was not enough.”

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7 Responses to To force yourself as unwanted guest

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  2. Charles says:

    To mur­der the direc­tor or antiquities…

    An Iraqi man looks at a dead body inside a bul­let rid­dled car after uniden­ti­fied gun­men killed the Direc­tor Gen­eral of muse­ums and antiques in the Min­istry of Cul­ture Nabil Yasir al Musawi along with his dri­ver while head­ing to work in Baghdad’s al Shurta dis­trict, Iraq, Wednes­day, Oct. 26, 2005.(AP Photo/Mahmoud Al-Badri)

  3. LadyBird says:

    Thank you Charles for agree­ing that this man will be alive if Bush didn’t cre­ated this chaos in Iraq.
    Keep the good work

  4. Charles says:

    Oh, I thought your ‘free­dom fight­ers’ killed him. But you are right, it must have been Bush. How silly of me. Of course it is his fault.

    On the other hand, the only dif­fer­ence between your free­dom fight­ers and Saddam’s thugs is that now the for­mer are out of power. For the most part they are the same peo­ple, but now they have a dif­fer­ent name. Under Sad­dam, it wouldn’t have been clas­si­fied as ‘murder’.

  5. LadyBird says:

    your ‘free­dom fighters’

    Show me some­where I said this

  6. Daedalus says:

    The third amend­ment the US Con­sti­tu­tion Bill of Rights says, “No Sol­dier shall, in time of peace be quar­tered in any house, with­out the con­sent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a man­ner to be pre­scribed by law.” Just another of the hun­dreds of Amer­i­can ideals that have been thrown out the win­dow by this admin­is­tra­tion. Sigh…

  7. Charles says:

    Show me some­where I said this

    Don’t be so delib­er­ately obtuse.

    A quick review of your blog reveals 99% anti-US pro­pa­ganda. There is a con­flict in Iraq. There is an elected gov­ern­ment that is being sup­ported by the US/coalition. It is being opposed pri­mar­ily by extrem­ist sunni groups and for­mer regime ele­ments. These groups are caus­ing the death, destruc­tion, and may­hem in Iraq. Since you focus all of your attacks against the US, you must con­sider the ‘free­dom fight­ers’ (who by the way are overtly opposed to democ­racy) to be the good guys.

    If you thought they were worse than US, you would obvi­ously focus more one their actions. If you thought they were equally bad, you would focus atten­tion equally.

  8. Jon says:

    If you thought they were worse than US, you would obvi­ously focus more one their actions. If you thought they were equally bad, you would focus atten­tion equally.”

    Lady­Bird has stated many times that she believes this has hap­pened because of the US inva­sion. Now who is being obtuse?