Iraq made simple: US replaces Saddam as Iron Fist holding Iraq together

[npincus]

That's our mission. That's "victory".


Saddam held his country and its three distinct ethnic tribes together using fear and force; now the US is attempting to hold the country together using military force. That's it. How has saving them from themselves become our mission? Why the f*ck are we dying there, to preserve a unity they don't want? We can't stay there without taking sides and killing innocents. Much of their infrastructure has been destroyed (sabotaged) by Iraqis who don't accept the New Order our invasion installed. The NYT said that 7 out of 9 power lines that fed electricity to Baghdad have been destroyed (sabotaged). 70% of Iraq children don't go to school anymore (another Duer posted yesterday). More than 1 million have left the country, and about as many have been displaced. What's left to save? The minute we leave (unless we stay there forever), the civil war will resume. What will the deaths of our soldiers, between now and our departure, have meant?


If Chimp cannot address this reality which the American public is onto (finally), someone needs to drive this bus. What can a Dem Congress do to halt this insanity?


Preaching to the choir, I know.

[spanone]

1. ...and we're follwoing in his footsteps. Killing and torturing.

[rock]

2. Saddam: Iron fist; US: rusty fist

We don't quite have the grip that Saddam had.

[aquart]

3. That was the plan. Did. Not. Work.

It will never work. As long as an Iraqi is breathing, we will be opposed. Got a taste for slaughtering 30 million people?

[npincus]

4. Gates needs to talk to IRAQIS

and read the polls that say a vast majority oppose foreign occupation. They do not WANT us there.

[jwirr]

5. Unfortunately we also adopted his means.

[partylessinOhio]

6. Saddam trumps Bush any day. He did what needed done to hold Iraq together.

There is no victory in vengence.

The Iraqi people are suffering far greater after the shock and awe.