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Iraqi Speaker: U.S. Guilty of 'Butchery'
American troops in Iraq fighting to bring peace and stability to the war-torn region are guilty of "butchery," a top member of the Iraqi Parliament charges. According to the anti-U.S. Aljazeera news agency Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani charged that U.S. forces who have lost over 2,600 soldiers and Marines trying to protect his people from murderous terrorists have committed "butchery" in Iraq and should leave. Speaking at a U.N.-sponsored conference on transitional justice and reconciliation in Baghdad Saturday al-Mashhadani criticized U.S. support for the Israeli attacks against Lebanon. He said, "Just get your hands off Iraq and the Iraqi people and Muslim countries, and everything will be all right. What has been done in Iraq is a kind of butchery of the Iraqi people." He made no mention of the beheadings, butchery and torture of tens of thousands of his fellow Iraqis committed by the insurgents the U.S. forces are fighting.
Story Continues Below He also told an audience of U.N. officials, foreign experts, Iraqi politicians and civil society representatives that the Iraqi people had little use for foreign advice on running their country or for foreign-sponsored conferences, according to Aljazeera. "If a reconciliation project is going to work it has to talk to all the people," he said. "It must go through our Iraqi beliefs and perceptions. What we need is reconciliation between Iraqis only, there can be no third party." Charging that American soldiers have kept people waiting in lines at checkpoints for hours because they insist on resting their bomb-sniffing dogs, he added "The sleep of American dogs is more important than people being stopped in the street for hours." His speech was described as "spirited" according to the U.N. representative chairing the conference.
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