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Originally posted by uno
Hooray! I haven't really seen you post any childish insults or anything yet.
The chaos over there has lasted thousands of years. Of course its increasing with the ramp up to partial elections in Iraq. Did you listen to Rumsfeld? They are going to hold partial elections. That is like not letting Miami, Los Angeles and Houston vote. What kind of legitmacy would a gov't like that have in a country that has been teetering on civil war for centuries?
The "insurgency" or "resistance" depending on how intellectually honest you want to be with yourself is estimated between 10-22,000 or even more. The number is probably growing every day.
Saddam's only real ties to terrorism was an after-the-fact funding of Palestinian family members of suicide bombers. He had tried to kill Bush41 rather unsuccessfully and clumsily and was promptly bombed for it. He had no wmd and there was no real program in place. I'm happy he's out of power and everything, but the way we went about it was all wrong.
Muslims view outsiders invading their land, regardless of nationality, to be enemies. It's their responsibility to get the invaders out to achieve their goals of installing a Shariah(sp?). They also don't operate with the same timeframe we do. We think years, they think in terms of lifetimes and centuries. This is not something that can be won with bombs.
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The partial elections is just a way to get elections there as soon as possible in hopes that it will settle the situation... I only hope it works...
Hrm, I heard between 2-5k, it seems if they had 10-22k they could actually do better then car bombs..
Where I think you really are wrong here... is when you think this war is muslims against americans.... This is actually more about Sunni's and Kurds and Bathist... they all want complete power... the extremist anyways... they see america as a roadblock in the way of power.. what better way to get rid of the americans then to terror them out... they terrored out the spanish.. and a few others... so it seems to work for them...
But I dont totally disagree radical muslims have a lot of propaganda against us and blame us for most of their problems...
I dont think ignoring them is the answer however... we need their resources too much for that... if the us economy was dependent on oil I'd say that would be a possiblity.. but it simply is... and we have no choice but to do business with them...