Reply #105: This comes from the CIA -- the same people who are very [View All]

[beachmom]

disgruntled with the Bush administration. John Kerry states this fact often in his speeches about Iraq to counteract the bogus statement by Bush that "we're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here". You know, Don, I agree with you that you have to be skeptical about what our government says, especially when we're at war. However, I tend to believe this figure. I think that a country traumatized by so many years of death, terror, and torture under the Saddam regime is capable of these unspeakable crimes today. The foreigners definitely ramped it up with their suicide bomb attacks, but the place was certainly ripe for a horrid civil war, and hatred of a foreign occupying force. You also have to know about the Shi'ite militia Death Squads that are torturing people with drills before they shoot them in the head execution style. It is also an unfortunate fact that many young disaffected Iraqis are becoming radicalized and joining al Qaeda, much in the same way that this happened in Afghanistan in the '80s.