Posted by
The Muser on Monday, September 10, 2007 11:04:23 AM
Where's that danged Sadam when you really need him? Why do I need Sadam? I want to give him back his little piece of crap country for 6 months or so, just so he can remind those people of why they hung him, because a whole bunch of them seem to have forgotten.
Why am I all revved up today? There was a poll taken of 2200 Iraqis recently in which one of the questions was something akin to "Do you believe America was right to invade your country" Of the 2200, six out of every ten said "No". (Wide-eyed) NO?? The people that our troops rescued from a tyrannical despot say now we were wrong to SAVE THEM?? OK, now I'm confused. We go into their God-forsaken country, paying for their freedom with American lives and they say now they didn't want to be rescued??? Ok, fine. Let's pull all the troops out and let them kill each other off, then we go back in and turn that place into the 51st state of the union.
The really obvious, and most irritating, part of this fiasco, is that the Iraqi's won't stand up for themselves. They're too busy complaining and whining to realize that this is THEIR country we're trying to save. And yes, I know some of them have been forced to live in a less than civilized manner over the last couple of years, but is that really any different than the way they were living before?? I mean if you go back and look at some of the film clips taken back during the years of the Reagan presidency, the Iran-Iraq war, and the first Gulf War, most of them were living like homeless people anyway. And at least now they don't have to worry about being picked up by Sadam's secret police and being "interrogated", so to speak. And yes, I know that Islamic radicals, and some of the Iraqi's themselves, are blowing things, and people, up constantly, but there again this is a sign of the unwillingness of the general population to stand up for themselves. The radicals are a small minority of the population of that country, but right now they are imposing their will on the majority. And until that changes, nothing the U.S. can do is going to be truly effective in stopping the bloodshed.