Nouvelles images de la démocratie en IRAK

 https://www.newyorker.com[...]dnt-want-the-world-to-see

Les soldats US qui rentraient dans les maisons butant femmes enfants personnes âgés d'une balle à bout portant dans la tête, on en parle ?

Un bougnoule en moins est toujours une bonne chose

Il y a 20 ans déjà. J'ai l'impression que c'était hier la guerre en Irak.

T'as pas plus récent ? Parce que la une partie du fourome était même pas née quand c'est arrivé.

en Europe oui évidemment, a proximité d'israel dans un état qui eut refusé la soumission a l'empire juif non, il faut être être raciste de façon calculée

Qu'ils s'entre-tuent

Up pour t'éviter le Kronenbide

Tuent il est parti avec Cigare et Cheubest BTG

L'armée US c'est Tsahal en géant, y'a les mêmes feujs derrière, l'organisation est pareille, tapis de bombes, savent pas se battre

sois pas ridicule, les youtres sont 100 fois moins nombreux et nous causent encore plus de problèmes, et ce qu'ils vivent chez nous ou non, un bougnoule vivant en Iraq ne m'a jamais volé mon vélo et ne risque pas d'égorger ma famille, le juif lui veut notre mort qu'il vive à paris à londre ou à tel aviv
l'idée qu'on doit pas prendre de camp et les laisser "s'entre-tuer" c'est da la grosse flemmardise intellectuelle, la défaite des juifs en israel et ailleurs nous est infiniment plus bénéfique que la mort de gosses au moyen-orient

J'étais au lycée ce jour là.

Savent pas se battre ... chaud

Tu es un enfant.

Y'a pas de combat au sol c'est des lâches derrière des drones , les soldats français rentrent dans les villages et parlent aux gens

Je suis content d'avoir connu le monde d'avant en tout cas. C'était pas parfait mais le 11 septembre a vraiment tout changé a l'ambiance.

L'armée ricaine est certainement l'armée ayant le plus d'expériences en combat "moderne" .

Leurs retours d expériences sur la bataille de fallujah ont permis de perfectionner le combat en zone urbaine pour les armées du monde

Les prises en charges des blessés et évacuations sur les champs de bataille c'est eux également (9line medevac , la composition optimale des trousses de secours,...)

La mise en place des différentes unités sur le terrain : unités de mêlée, train de combat , pc , etc

En gros tout le monde s'est inspiré d'eux ou à litteralement copié leurs façons de faire grâce à leurs retours d expérience khey .

Alors certes maintenant ils adorent balancer un ptit missile predator sur mohamed et sa mobylette , mais dire qu'ils ne savent pas se battre c'est de la mauvaise foi

(Et je chie itteralement sur la décadence qu'est devenue leur pays)

Bordel c'est chaud quand même

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La 3ème grosse série de mensonges politiques et médiatiques a concerné les deux guerres d’Irak.

Pour la première guerre, il s’est agi de l’affaire des couveuses koweïtiennes, en Octobre 1990. Elle a largement contribué à l’entrée en guerre des USA, suivis par leurs vassaux de l’OTAN, contre l’Irak de Saddam Hussein qui, à ma connaissance, ne menaçait aucun des pays de l’alliance atlantique.

Pour ceux qui ne se souviendraient pas de cette affaire qui n’est pas à la gloire des USA et de l’OTAN, je les invite à relire ce qu’en dit Wikipédia et surtout à relire le faux témoignage, relayé par les médias du monde entier, qui a justifié l’intervention de l’OTAN (du fort au faible, évidemment):  https://fr.wikipedia.org/[...]e_des_couveuses_au_Koweït

Pour la seconde guerre d’Irak, il s’agit du mensonge désormais bien connu, de Colin Powell, alors secrétaire d’État américain, brandissant une fiole de poudre de perlin pimpin devant le Conseil de Sécurité de l’Onu en prétendant que c’était un échantillon des armes de destruction massives de Saddam Hussein. On se souvient que la France, l’Allemagne et le Canada avait refusé de suivre cet énorme mensonge US mais qu’une partie importante de l’OTAN (Espagne, Italie, UK, …etc) les avait quand même soutenu dans leur croisade «anti Saddam Hussein».

Ce qui est malheureux pour les populations victimes de ces mensonges de l’occident otanien, c’est qu’elles ont du compter leurs morts par centaines de milliers, dans un silence assourdissant des médias mainstream et de l’opinion publique otanienne qui gémit aujourd’hui. Rien d’étonnant que la montée d’une haine inextinguible contre les occidentaux se soit développée dans le monde et qu’elle ait été suivie par la montée d’un terrorisme, principalement anti occidental.

Dans la période tourmentée que nous connaissons, il serait bon que les bonnes âmes qui compatissent aux malheurs très réels du peuple ukrainien, se souviennent aussi des malheurs infiniment supérieurs en importance infligés à d’autres par les USA et tout ou partie de l’OTAN (dont la France).

J’invite le lecteur à visionner les deux documents sur les liens ci après, qui leur permettront de réfléchir et de relativiser.

Dans le premier Madeleine Albright, Secrétaire d’état US de l’époque, assume et justifie la mort de 500 000 enfants irakiens en disant : «Je crois que c’était un choix très difficile, mais le prix… nous pensons que le prix en valait la peine.»Puis,réalisant qu’elle avait dit une énormité,cette brave dame a fini par présenter des excuses quelques heures plus tard.Avez vous entendu l’opinion publique otanienne s’indigner de ces propos inacceptables ? La mort des enfants irakiens ? les médias occidentaux et les opinions publiques occidentales s’en moquent, en revanche il faut aujourd’hui sauver le soldat Zelinski …. C’est prévu dans le scénario …

 https://www.france-irak-a[...]000-enfants-irakiens.html

In this instance U. S forces were able to locate the wire then follow it until they found the fighter. On the other end and liquidated them but then guerillas figured out how to detonate these devices remotely using RC car controllers, car alarm transmitters and especially cell phones. The people who detonated these bombs also known as trigger men were the front line troops of the resistance and the cell phone became one of the most important Tools in their Arsenal. l IED explosions would reportedly be videotaped by attackers in order to improve their techniques and use the footage for propaganda and recruitment purposes Though the US spent billions outfitting Humvees with armor to resist IED explosions, the Iraqis again adapted their ways and began placing IEDs and tree branches and light poles since armor plates were placed on doors the blast would be downward facing in order to blow windows in and also to hit the machine Gunners poking out on top of the vehicles. " We got better armor they started getting better Ordnance. " said Colonel Bob Chase of the Second Marine Division Chase was commentating about an IED attack near Haditha who killed 14 Marines with a single explosion hitting an amphibious assault vehicle. This was at the time a new development in IED technology called the underbelly bomb detonated from deep inside the ground and Blasting vehicles from underneath. These bombs were also massive able to utterly destroy a Humvee or even a tank. Just 100 pounds of explosives detonated under an armored vehicle was the equivalent of a direct hit from a Six-Gun artillery battery. Yet even a single 155 millimeter artillery round containing just 18 pounds of explosives could easily destroy a tank on its own. IEDs were so effective that attacks increased steadily in the Year 2005. An IED attack occurred every 48 minutes twice the rate of the year. Brigadier General Joseph Anderson said about IED attacks : " That's just a damn difficult thing to defeat. "
IEDs was also sending another message to the occupation. Since they were so widely distributed on roads throughout the country this could only mean that they were unreported by local Iraqis. A major blow to morale for U. S forces who of course went into Iraq thinking they'd be welcomed as liberators. Along with the UN World Bank Oxfam and the IMF all pulling out , other countries militaries also found Iraq ultimately uninhabitable. Spain would leave in May 2004 then Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Hungary the next year. The Netherlands Ukraine also Poland Bulgaria and Italy, probably the three most important European allies in Iraq would announce their plans to get the out in 2005. In the end a 30 dollars bomb was enough to kill probably half of the U. S war dead. The resistance was so overwhelming against such an awesome occupying force that it should indeed be studied in Insurgency in Revolutionary circles for many years to come.
Micharl Leeden, American Enterprise institute : " Every 10 years or so, the United States needs to pick up some crappy little country and throw it against the wall just to show the world we mean business. "

War in Irak wasn't about oil.
One of the msot controversial assertations made in the book " The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy " by 2 universities, John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt is that members of this lobby played an important and necessary role in the US invasion of Irak. They argue that without them, the invasion would not have happen. Rather than oil, the group contend that it was a powerful group within the Israel Lobby that was the most important factor. Michael Ledeen, a prominent neoconservative, said :
" Every 10 years or so, the United States needs to pick up some crappy little country and throw it against the wall just to show the world we mean business. " Ledeen was once a consultant for National Security. Norman Finkelstein a key critic of Israel as they carry out a genocide was at the time of the book publishing, openly at odds with both authors. Israel Lobby, mainly the neoconservatices were the main driving force behind the war in Irak. They need Bush and Cheney to be on board. That happened after September 11th. Normal G Finkelstein devoted an entire chapter in his book " Knowing too much : why the american jewish romance with Israel is coming to an end. " Here he gives a brief history of neoconservatives. " The founding fathers of neoconservatism such as Irving Kristol rode the Marxist grave wave in the 1930s. Irving Kristol, Normal Podhoretz, Midge Decter. " The neoconservatices then rode the new left wave in the early 1960s. When it crested in the mid 1960d, they again joined the establishment backlash to it. " " As the spectrum of respectable opinion in the US shifted steadily rightward, the jewish neoconservatives galloped yet more swiftly, eventually crossing the rubicon from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. " As Finkelstein writes, the collapse of USSR shifted the focus of the neoconservatives and indeed, US defense policy makers generally on Middle East.
However he disagreed about an argument about the Israel Lobby. " The msot sensationnal item on Mearsheimer and Walt's charge sheet alleges that the disastrous decision of the Bush administration to invade Irak in 2003 was orchestrated by the Israel Lobby. " He argues that if the principal architects of the war, Bush, Cheney and Romsfeld were motivated by Israel, why in the first and second hand account of the prewar behind the scenes debates, of the Bush administration, Israel barely gets a passing mention. He says that in her memoirs " Condoleezza Rice who was National Security Advisor of Bush administration, does not list or even allude to, Israel security as the, or even a motive behind the attack. " In Donald Rumsfeld's memoirs " Known and Unknown ", Rumsfel,d who was Secretary of Defense in the Bush Administration, also does not list , or even allude to, Israel security as the, or even a, motive behind the attack.
Same for DIck Cheney's memoirs.

C'était bien la peine d'apporter la " démocratie en Irak " hein?

It''s been 20 years well since the second American invasion of Iraq. To many Iraqis the War Began in 1990 not 2003. 2003 certainly marked an incalculable unimaginably massive and World altering cataclysm. In 2001 Dr W kreisel of the World Health Organization prepared a report titled : " Health situation in Iraq "Before 1990 Iraq with a GNP per capita of 2 800 US Dollars belonged to the group of middle-income countries. The large investments in infrastructures and in Human Resources development had led to the development of an efficient health system that was considered one of the best in the Middle East. Malnutrition was virtually not seen as households had easy and affordable access to a balanced dietary intake. Healthcare Services were guaranteed by an extensive network of well-equipped well-supplied and well-staffed health facilities. The access of patients to higher levels of care was easy and effortless supported as it was by a distributed network of secondary and tertiary hospitals and institutions. Ambulances and Emergency Services were well developed and benefited from a properly maintained network of roads and Telecommunications. Water and sanitation services benefited from large investments in water and sewage treatment plants during earlier decades assuring nearly universal access to abundant safe drinking water and to a relatively clean environment. Electricity had been made available even to remote villages. " He is basically painting the picture of somewhat a modern country would look like. The Ba ath regime in Irak provided free health care and education for virtually everyone.
Proportionally Iraq had a very large middle class but as has been well documentedd the bombing campaign during the Gulf War was one of the most ferocious in modern history. Human Rights Watch would describe the destruction in abysmal terms. : " The recent conflict has wrought near apocalyptic results upon the economic infrastructure of what had been until January 1991. A rather highly urbanized and mechanized Society now most means of modern life support have been destroyed or rendered tenuous. Iraq has for some time to come been relegated to a pre-industrial age. " The air campaign targeted vast quantities of critical civilian infrastructure including water treatment facilities, food processing plants, food and Seed storage warehouses, flower mills and even a dairy plant. Being a modern country Iraq was heavily reliant on electricity and the deliberate bombing of its electrical grid decimated as Central Services such as water purification and distribution, sewage removal and treatment the operation of hospitals and medical laboratories and agricultural production. A Harvard study team would report on the ground on the effects of not only the bombing but also the notorious sanctions placed on the country all the way to the second invasion. According to them War damage and continued sanctions led to a virtual collapse of basic public services such as healthcare, water supply, food distribution sewage and sanitation.
Pathogenic microbes born in the contaminated water supplies are creating epidemic levels of waterborne diseases . Typhoid gastroenteritis and cholera are epidemic. A figure of five hundred thousand children was given to then U. N Ambassador Madeleine Albright by reporter Leslie Stahl. Iraq would hit rock bottom in 1994. Hospitals ran out of medicines and even soap to wash bedding. Malnutrition was widespread infant mortality exploded. Clean drinking water was unavailable. In many areas and runaway inflation virtually wiped out the new middle class but despite this Iraq was miraculously able to make somewhat of a comeback, rebuilding power stations and transmission lines, building bridges and treating sewage. Even oil exports were able to moderately increase and by 2000 Iraq was earning more than 30 billion dollars from oil exports. In many histories of the war 911 is the turning point and in many ways it was but the reality, is that the writing was on the wall for several years.
fter the Gulf War, the US spent roughly a billion dollars a year to operate a no-fly zone over Iraq. A strategy known as containment. Things took a dramatic turn in 1998 when President Bill Clinton launched yet another bombing campaign on The Battered country. That same year a letter would be drafted by a small but influential group of conservative Republicans calling for the end to the containment strategyas well as Saddam Hussein's ouster. The letter is significant since several of its authors would come to hold prominent positions in the coming Bush Administration and were key players in planning the war. These included Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard L. Armitage, future un Ambassador John Bolton and several others who would move back into the government three years later. This clique is part of a small but influential group known as the neoconservatives who pushed relentlessly to turn the tide of Republican opinion in favor of the war which would bleed into the liberal mainstream. Following the invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent fall of Kabul the formal plans for an invasion of Iraq began. What followed was a sustained years-long disinformation campaign straight from the Bush Administration. Colin Powell already talked in February 2001 about Irak not having, developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. But the asme guy said the opposite in 2003. Not only the Bush Administration but also of course the liberal media most notoriously being the work of Judith Miller of the New York Times. She already back in December 2001 wrote an article about " a so-called Iraqi Defector who claimed to have helped renovate facilities used for weapons of mass destruction ". Miller's article was published three days after the CIA and defense intelligence agency rejected the so-called defectors account as " unreliable . "
It turns out he had even failed their lie detector test. Miller's journalistic standards proved to be particularly sloppy admitting that there was no means to independently verify the defectors allegations. Nevertheless a Pandora's Box had opened and Judith Miller would be one of the most prominent Hawks during the lead-up to the war the Bush Administration.Ahmed Shalabi founded the Iraqi National Congress or Inc, a cia-backed group responsible for fomenting Saddam Hussein's ouster. Halabi would be propped up as a candidate for the future leader of a " liberated Iraq. " In fact chalaby eventually switched his Allegiance and began feeding intelligence to Iran after the invasion. His importance though cannot be overlooked. According to Bush's Chief defense adviser Richard Perle, one of the neoconservatives who was considered to be one of the architects of the Iraq War, Ahmed chalabi's organization the Inc has been without question the single most important source of intelligence about Saddam Hussein and it was chalabi's so-called intelligence that would fill the pages of the New York Times. In an embarrassing internal email to Tom's colleague John Burns Judith Miller admitted that Ahmed shalabi : " has provided most of the front page exclusives on WMD to our paper. The importance of Miller's reporting can't be overlooked either. A quote from Miller's article on 8th September 2002 : " The first sign of a smoking gun, they argue, may be a mushroom cloud. That same day Condoleezza Rice would pair at the same quip on CNN. Combat for the Iraq War Began on March 20th 2003.. Saddam was supposedly at a complex of houses west of the Tigris river called Dora Farms. He wasn't and they lobbed cruise missiles and 2 000 bombs at nothing. In the six long weeks of the 1991 Gulf War the U. S Navy had fired 288 Tomahawk cruise missiles.
On the second day of the 2003 Invasion on March 21st US forces would fire over 500 Tomahawk missies in a single day. From March 20th to May 2nd the weeks of " major combat ", U. S forces dropped more than 30 000 bombs in Irak, as well as 20 000 precision-guided missiles which was 67 % of the total number ever made. 1800 aircraft flew 41 000 sorties in just the first month of the war according to Central Command Chief Tommy Franks who oversaw U. S troops during The Invasion. : " B-52s b1s and a whole range of Air Force marine and Navy fighter bombers would be flying above strike aircraft of all sizes were moving over a wide curve Kill Zone. " This so-called Kill Zone stretched over 100 miles east and west just south of Baghdad. Frank's continues " the bombardment that lasted from the night of March 25th through the morning of March 27th was one of the fiercest in the history of warfare. " 10 000 were probably killed in just the first three weeks of the bombing and whole areas were completely obliterated by the heavy use of cluster munitions. Just 13 000 cluster bombs dropped on the country exploded into two million bomblets and the ones that didn't explode were effectively turned into land mines. Ground troops with close support from helicopters swept through the South and made their way towards Baghdad. A force of about 145 000 troops formed less than three Army divisions. There was also one large Marine Division and a British division about 250 tanks and 250 Bradley Fighting Vehicles made their way up from Kuwait. They were confronting a weak ragged military that was a third the size of what it was during Operation Desert Storm. Roughly a decade earlier they seized airfields Bridges and oil fields on the way.

Et dire que ce pays est devenu un shithole depuis.

On the night of March 28th as U.S troops approached Baghdad, the U. S military destroyed most of the city's telephone Network four. Telephone switches were hit with massive 5 000 pound bunker Busters which instantly cut millions of phones across the city. In all they would Target 12 of baghdad's communication centers. By April 2nd there was barely a phone working in all of Baghdad. In the Frantic Panic of the Air Raids it was now impossible for Iraqis to call family members loved ones to see if they were all right and if they were still alive. And it wasn't just the phones that were targeted but also television and radio transmitters making watching or hearing any news of the assault impossible. Western media whose coverage was heavily tailored by the US military made liberal use of the term smart bomb as they did notably under the first Gulf War referring to precision-guided Munitions. The term smart bomb denotes a highly calculated accuracy but while precision-guided bombs fare well under controlled tests, in the real world on the battlefield so-called smart bombs are vulnerable to all manner of environmental factors that may change its trajectory. These include human error mechanical malfunction, software error, the fluctuating accuracy of GPS weather and just poor Military Intelligence. As noted by an investigation by Human Rights Watch The Real World efficacy of the so-called smart bombs was overwhelmingly negative. : " All of the 50 acknowledged attacks targeting Iraqi leadership failed. While they did not kill a single targeted individual the strikes killed and injured dozens of civilians. "
Marc garlasco said that " the magic number was 30. " Garlasco was the pentagon's chief of high-value targeting during operation Iraqi Freedom. "That means that if you hit 30 as the anticipated number of civilians killed the airstrike had to go to Rumsfelder Bush personally to sign off. " In the opening of the war according to the New York Times over 50 such stikes were proposed and all of them were approved. " The reporting of these casualties was not an undertaking of the military whatsoever which went all the way to the head of Central Command who said : " We don't do body counts on other people. " Thankfully a massive epidemiological study led by Les Roberts of Johns Hopkins University would provide a serious and vitally important figure that would cause a major upset in the liberal press. Les Roberts did a study for the International Rescue committee where he was tasked with estimating the numbers killed as a result of the second Congo War which is now considered the deadliest war since World War II. As a veteran epidemiologist Roberts was uniquely suited to study the Fallout from such a war. The spread of disease is of course one of War's most devastating characteristics so his specialization in studying disease via sampling and surveying was valuable. Roberts and his team would disperse throughout Eastern Congo the epicenter of the conflict and conduct a survey of. Over one thousand households participants were asked various questions including if anyone in their family had died and if so then how the data were extrapolated to Regions across the Congo. The results were grim. They concluded that 1,7 million excess deaths had occurred since the start of the war in 1998 including 200 000 from direct violence and well over a million more who had died of disease, malaria, diarrhea, diseases that otherwise could have been treated had the war not occurred.


How Iraqis Got So Good At Smoking American Soldiers

Saddam's police, while brutal, ensured that street crime was almost unheard off. Prior to the invasion Iraq had a crime rate that was among the lowest in the entire world. On October 2002, Saddam Hussein, bracing for a US invasion, emptied prisons in what was seen as an attempt to Garner support on the international stage and at home president Saddam officially declared : " All jailed prisoners detainees and sentenced fugitives for political reasons are granted a complete comprehensive and final amnesty. " This amouted to thousands of people. Mostly political prisonners but also included thousands of common criminals and some of Iraq's most violent those imprisoned for murder or armed robbery. Following American bombing campaign, all order had evaporated. he so-called shock and awe campaign was so overwhelming that by mid-april the Iraqi Army had ceased to exist. With criminals roaming, carnage ensued. Although amid the chaos lines began to blur with the breakdown of societyCommon People moms and dads became Petty criminals themselves. As in the first Gulf War the aerial campaign had once again targeted water and sewage treatment plants along with the electrical grid that powered them. As a result even bottled water became scarce. Starvation and disease became a serious danger for the population. William R Polk, middle eastern historian : " Looting became a form of shopping; The desperate poor driven by hunger and criminals driven by greed formed gangs that proud the streets looking for targets. The police had drifted away from their stations to join either the Vigilantes or the gangs. Crime including homicide became rampant. Source : " Voice of America " : BAghdad crime rate rises dramatically " October 2003. Donald Rumsfeld ran the defense department like a corporation in the US. lashing employees and using the bare minimum of troops hoping to fill the rest via contracts awarded to defense contractors.
Among the first fissures in the military was a very public feud between Rumsfeld and army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki. Shinseki thought that Iraq should follow America's so-called Bosnia model, or one U. S troop for every 50 bosnians. That would amount to 300 000 US troops in Irak. But Rumsfeld scoffed nd allowed less than half that amount. The french during the Algeria's war of independance, used 3 times more to fight the same number of insurgents that the US would fight in Irak. Dr Faiq Amin Batir, in charge of the city morgue of Baghdad back then in 2003 spoke about the gravity of the situation.  https://www.voanews.com/a[...]hdad-67585742/389194.html " "There are a lot of criminals because of the lack of security, lack of police control, lack of security people," he said. "You know, Iraq was controlled by many security systems." " The lack of security reflected poorly on the Americans. One of the main factors undermining their credibility was to choose the Iraki people as the people to pacify and subdue. It proved to be unwise. Outside the national pride, it was the same people who kicked out the Brits and gained their independance 70 years ago back then. Iraq was also historically a Hardy Agricultural Society. Another way of putting that would be they were heavily armed. Irak was one of the most heavily armed societies in the world. Irak per capita rivaled clans like those Yemen and Somalia. Almost everyone was armed. But those corroded rifles and pistols passed down generations were the least of American problems.
Voice of America
Along with emptying prisons Saddam also made life difficult for the Americans by dumping small collections of weapons and explosives among the Iraqi population and distributed rifles. But some weapons dumps were massive, like the size of small cities. There were also Irak military arsenal right for the picking with the army effectively non existent and a lack of US troops. To guard these depots, Irakis began breaking into them. The result was that Irak became even more overflowing with weaponry. Estimates put the number at up to 1 million metric tons.
CENTCOM Commander General John P. Abizaid. There is more ammunition in Iraq than any place I've ever been in my life and it is all not securable. THese weapons would be sold or simply passed out to friends for free. Almost every Iraki bad a kalashnikov or a variant. Many even had machine guns or RPG's. The public would not be informed until the end of October of 2004 more than 18 months after the War Began that a cache of over 380 tons of artillery, shells, plastic, explosives, mortar rounds, TNT and other powerful conventional explosives was cleaned out by looters. The USA failed to emulate the so called Bosnia model. They adopted another bosnia-era policy which would come to uniquely define the American occupation. Known as dab or driving around Bosnia U. S forces would adopt patrols as a routine daily exercise It was thought that the presence of soldiers on the ground would bring an air of security to cities and populated areas. But these ground operations also bought troops door to door, conducting constant raids to Irakis homes. Otherwise known as cordon and sweep operations the Cavalier and often cruel nature of these raids became another major point of contention among the Iraqis. These sweeps were indiscriminate nabbing so-called military-age males which included young teens and children up to adult or even older men. These men without any due process were hauled off to American Military prisons including the notorious Abu grave prison. The saddam-era torture chamber which was reopened by the Americans who even reinstituted the old prison warden from the Saddam era. Along with the ensuing torture Scandal was yet another rage-inducing insensitivity which made many Iraqis ready to take up arms.