Posted by RS on 06/02/06 14:56

Peter wrote:
>>For the longest time, the US 500 pound gorilla was what was keeping the
>>place from getting on with the civil war they were always going to have.
>>The hope was that we could get a new functionion goverment in place that
>>would mitigate the chaos. They seem to have got tired of waiting. It
>>dosen't help that we disbanded the army at the very start and that their
>>government has more in common with the clown sideshow at the circus.
>
>
> I don't believe they are going to have civil war if we didn't step into
> their business. Saddem Hussien is bad. No doubl of it! But at least he could
> maintain some kind of order. Now it is chaos. It is the simple rule of less
> evil. It is a very bad bad decision going into Iraq and someone should be
> resposible for that!

I was setting the beginning point for the discussion to be 'post'
Saddam. Once Saddam was gone, the civil war was going to happen
eventually given the tribal and cultural situation in that region of
'revenge, revenge, above all else, revenge.'


> I am always pissed off when someone saying we are helping them. It is better
> now. They have democracy now, etc, etc. It is bullshit! We just make things
> worse there and here. We can do better by donating those billions of dollars
> than this and not losing 2 thousand souls in Iraq.
>

Donating usually dosen't work either. It all usually gets stolen along
the chain of corrupt officials.

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