U.S. says Iraqis may fight rebels for years (as in "a decade or more")

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

U.S. says Iraqis may fight rebels for years



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050626/ts_nm/iraq_dc

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday that American forces would not defeat
Iraq's rebels but would make way for Iraqis to put down an insurgency that could go on for a decade or more.

His remarks came on another day of bloodshed in which three suicide attacks around the northern city of Mosul killed more than two dozen people, highlighting the task faced by Iraq's U.S.-trained forces in overcoming a Sunni Arab revolt, backed by foreign Islamists, against the new Shi'ite-led government.

"That insurgency can go on for any number of years," Rumsfeld told Fox News.

"Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years. Foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. A hypothetical question....

If we had left Iraq alone, left Saddam Hussein in power, would there even have been an insurgency? Did we really do the Iraqi people any kind of favor by removing Saddam from power? I seriously have my doubts.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. But...but...Iraq is the CENTER of terrorism in the WORLD...

Oh.

That's RIGHT.

It BECAME the center of terrorism after we showed up.

Can't WAIT for Junior's speech on Tuesday. Looking forward to hearing about our PROGRESS.

[Another Bill C.]

2. That's assuming

that the Iraquis want to fight the rebels. I have a feeling that, if we leave, there'll be a short civil war fought by an unenthusiastic home guard and things will return to the way they were.

We're only delaying the inevitable.

[liberal N proud]

4. The George W. Bu$h presidential legacy

Igniting the war in the Middle East to a point where it will never be resolved and to create more hatred of America than ever before.

Thank you Mr. Bu$h you and your lying pack of thieves.