Never Forget: "All Iraqi Groups Blame U.S. Invasion for Discord" - Says US Military Study!

[JackRiddler]

So, why wasn't the following the biggest story in the news about Iraq for the last six months?

Isn't it time to give the Iraqi people what they want?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/18/AR2007121802262_pf.html

All Iraqi Groups Blame U.S. Invasion for Discord, Study Shows

By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 19, 2007; A14

Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see the departure of "occupying forces" as the key to national reconciliation, according to focus groups conducted for the U.S. military last month.

That is good news, according to a military analysis of the results. At the very least, analysts optimistically concluded, the findings indicate that Iraqis hold some "shared beliefs" that may eventually allow them to surmount the divisions that have led to a civil war.

Yay! Good news! The foreign invaders have united the Iraqi people against them. What a surprise.

Now get out and pay reparations.

Conducting the focus groups, in 19 separate sessions organized by outside contractors in five cities, is among the ways in which Multi-National Force-Iraq assesses conditions in the country beyond counting insurgent attacks, casualties and weapons caches. The command, led by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, devotes more time and resources than any other government or independent entity to measuring various matters, including electricity, satisfaction with trash collection and what Iraqis think it will take for them to get along.

The results are analyzed and presented to Petraeus as part of the daily Battle Update Assessment or BUA (pronounced boo-ah). Some of the news has been unarguably good, including the sharply reduced number of roadside bombings and attacks on civilians. But bad news is often presented with a bright side, such as the focus-group results and a November poll, which found that 25 percent of Baghdad residents were satisfied with their local government and that 15 percent said they had enough fuel for heating and cooking.

The good news? Those numbers were higher than the figures of the previous month (18 percent and 9 percent, respectively).

[malaise]

1. Those numbers look remarkably similar to

the war criminal in chief's latest poll numbers.

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There is always resistance to an occupation - legal or illegal.

[niyad]

5. how many legal occupations have there been?

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

2. Because it's too effin' OBVIOUS for infotainment fools' consumption?

I mean,...
,...seriously!!!

:shrug:

It's horribly unfortunate that the neocons had it correct, as did Hitler's regime, that,...any mass can be manipulated to the will of those constantly present in their lives.

It's NOT unfortunate that masses CAN BE MANIPULATED but rather that,...their are evil people willing and able and acting to manipulate them,...blaming THE PEOPLE rather than themselves for their evil.

[tanyev]

3. I guess Dubya is a uniter.

[niyad]

4. no shit, sherlock!!

[JackRiddler]

6. Much of the time it's better to repeat the obvious...

especially when it's not obvious to everyone yet,

rather than to focus on the ephemera peddled urgently as "news."

[JackRiddler]

7. and morning kick

[niyad]

8. and afternoon kick

[JackRiddler]

9. doesn't seem to catch fire - even with the Senate report...

successfully being drowned out by the bogus 9/11 hearings and the celebrations around Obama.

Also by Rockefeller's cowardly statement that high crimes should go unpunished because the Congress has more important business to conduct.

[JackRiddler]

10. k

[readmoreoften]

11. HILIARIOUS.