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Originally posted by playa
anti-war people always like to find something to downplay
none of the stuff the anti-war people claimed has come true yet
1. where is the increase terroism?
2. what happen to mass US deaths?
3. what happen to Iraqi people hating the US?
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1. Do you remember how long it took to set up 9/11 for the terrorists? you're not being honest with yourself if you think anti-war people meant the increase would start the second we started shelling Iraqis. There was a fear peddled in the media that the start of war was a trigger for established cells, but the overarching thrust of that stance was obviously meant to mean over the next few years, even up to a decade as some of the young men who lost relatives in the war, and thousands of previously benign "muslim brothers" turn militant with what they see as a "new crusade".
2. Saddam saving his skin (or being seperated from it).. Bagdad was where the real war was supposed to start and if it had have been fought the way everyone was told it was going to be would have been the sandy deathbed of many an allied soldier. It wasn't just anti-war people saying this, pro-war people, at least those that were informed, were well aware of the possibility of 1000-2000 allied casualties in prolonged urban warfare.
3.
A few hundred dancing Iraqi's and suddenly "Iraqi's don't hate us". These were the same people that had posters of the trade center up in their shops, the same people the day before and the day after were suicide bombing US troops.
when you saw anti-war demonstrators on tv did you think the whole of the US was against the war? be-jesus.
They don't all hate us, but a lot of them do. Of course there is going to be a lot of rejoicing from the oppressed sections of society, shiites, kurds etc, but the other sections aren't exactly going to be out on the streets with "I H8 USA" tshirts on anytime soon now.
This does not go away just because a statue was torn down.