‘A dead Iraqi is just another dead Iraqi… You know, so what?’
Read the linked article and come to your own conclusions. If you’re still capable of doing so.
And that, to you, is a sign of what we’re accomplishing? :dubious:
That sort of story has been widely disseminated, by people in even better positions to know than Yon, and in far more loving detail, for 4 fucking years now. It’s been widely discussed in this very forum. If it’s a revelation to you, now,that’s not anybody else’s fault, Mr. “Open Your Mind”. Gawd.
You don’t get it. Of course there have been people like this since the war started. No one’s surprised by that. What I thought interesting was the casual way in which he was willin got discuss it, with American military present. It just presented a little shapshot into the personal side of the war.
So why don’t you just take it down a notch?
I read a story last week by a American soldier in Iraq. he said they shot a guy setting an IED… He was a officer in the American trained Iraqi army. He and his friends began to question the mission then.
We now call every Iraqi dead an Al Qaeda soldier. that is completely unfair. Statistics have shown their contribution is about one percent of the insurgency. It is another attempt to connect Al Qaeda and Iraq. The lies never stop.
I think that having our troops in Iraq is like having a fishhook stuck in your eyeball. It’s not doing a damn bit of good in there, the longer it’s in there the worse it’s going to hurt, and sooner or later you just have to work up the balls to yank it out. Yes, that’s going to hurt like hell and might even wreck the eyeball for good, but you can’t just leave the damn thing in there forever.
I believe it’s impossible to do any good in Iraq. All we can do is try to extricate ourselves in a way which will cause the least pain and do the least damage. I don’t believe either we or Iraq has any chance to heal as long as we’re in there.
**Are we doing ANY good in Iraq? **
We’re feeding the families of defense contractors.
“Squeaking”? Well, thanks for being polite and respectful, anyway.
Thank you for ignoring the content of the last half-dozen posts or so and choosing to zero in on a minor perceived slight to divert attention from the fact that you’re clinging to a discredited comparison between vastly different wars of vastly different times in vastly different places with vastly different populations.
HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost Hearts and mind fplk. Thats why we will win.
I keep thinking of the Ngo brothers (Dinh Diem and Dinh Nhu) from South Vietnam, whose regime lasted exactly as long as America held up its arms. I think partitioning is the only thing that even might bring peace.
Meanwhile, where are Osama bin Laden/Muhammad Omar and how were they responsible for this again? It’s hard to remember.
We refuse to define the problem properly. We are increasing the enemy populatiion
Was it them or Donald Rumsfeld who sold Saddam the WMDs? (Those WMDs that were the only reason the UK followed the US into Iraq. :rolleyes: )
The Downing Street memos said that we were going to fix the intelligence to justify the war. The English went along happily.
Blair was as eager as Cheney and Bush.
Thank you for not reading. I said quite clearly that I wasn’t saying the situations were similar. You added that from somewhere inside your head.