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Titolo: Locals saw UK troops as conquerors, not saviours

Britain Bows Out of a War It Could Never Win
Locals saw troops as conquerors, not saviours
By Tim Butcher, who was in Basra after it fell to British forces
Last Updated: 2:56am GMT 17/12/2007
Britain's adventure in Basra began four years ago with euphoria,
relief and an amazing display of alfresco plumbing.
Britain hands Basra back to the Iraqis
It had taken British forces three weeks of desert fighting before the
port city astride the Shatt Al Arab waterway fell to a classic pincer
operation by the Desert Rats (7 Armoured Brigade) and the Royal
Marines' 3 Commando Brigade.
advertisementA few die-hard Saddam Hussein supporters, styling
themselves "fedayeen", fought to the end. One jumped on to a
Challenger 2 tank and had to be "hosed off", as one squaddie described
it, with machine gun fire from a supporting tank.
Others fled north to Baghdad where Saddam Hussein still claimed to be
in power. The sense of excitement among British troops was palpable at
dawn on April 7, 2003, when they took ownership of the streets of the
biggest Iraqi city yet to fall to allied forces.
And there was relief it had been achieved with very little loss of
British life. Friendly fire from American forces was then the largest
cause of British casualties. The first priority was to establish a
city base. Saddam's massive, sprawling presidential palace complex on
the banks of the waterway was an easy choice. A "redistribution" of
the palace's plumbing began.
Bathroom fittings were gold-plated so gilt shower rails, loo brushes
and taps were "reassigned" by the city's new conquerors. That was how
the locals saw the allied troops: not saviours but conquerors. Graham
Binns, the two-star general who handed the city over yesterday was
then a one-star brigadier. He remembers his first meeting with local
sheikhs. "We came to them to ask what they wanted us to do for them,"
he recalled.
"But before we could speak they asked us what they must do for us. It
was a complete reversal of what we wanted to project."

 Prova di come li aveva ridotti Saddam casomai. 
ROTFL!
in Iraq le centinaia di civili morti e feriti al giorno si hanno sin da
quando i predoni angloamericani hanno deciso di invadere e occupare il
Paese.
 
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 inglesi, che a Bassora avevano ristabilito la sicurezza per gli abitanti.
perchè, sotto Saddam Bassora non era sicura? ROTFL

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ma non hai visto pure tu, come amalric, i pianti degli iracheni che
volevano che gli inglesi continuassero a fare i loro porci comodi da
quelle parte? sarai mica un rossobruno che non vuol vedere queste cose eh
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 essere.
con interviste fatte bene puoi far apparire anche che gli abitanti di
Bassora vogliono far parte del kurdistan...LOL

 sarai mica un rossobruno 
Guarda che  giovanni è il rossobruno per antonomasia.
Perché sei sempre così estemporaneo, camerata?
Tb
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 Guarda che  giovanni è il rossobruno per antonomasia.
infatti sto pensando di mettere il trademark, visto che a parte me di
rossobruni in giro ne vedo davvero pochini...

 lo stesso.
tu sei un maestro in questo: dove soffia piu' forte il vento lappi...
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