you can never bet the insurgence in Iraq...it's not about politics anymore..it's about religious individuals protecting there country from those who they view as a threat to them.....How many of u would fight back if a Facist or Islamic goverment was trying to be established in the West or even in europe....there pride for there country and faith will keep them fighting..and for everyone of them well kill..others will take there place the longer the americans stay...if there is gonna be a civil war then there is nothing we can do to stop this..all's we can do is delay it...So saying the U.S. will stay till there enemies are defeated means they will be there along time......the Middle east is use fighting gurillea styled war...1400 americans dead and rising.....how long can this go on The American way of Moral Superority by war must end...
These insurgents are a proud people. Even though I'm not on their side, or cheering for them every time the do these suicided bombings, i have some respect and can understand where they are coming from. I mean...if you have the courage to fight for what you believe in, even though your power is a great deal weaker than your enemy's, it shows internal strength. But yo if these people would fight with words rather than guns, I would respect them even more. I think most countries should learn to do that.
Actully in the begining most did. Most protested the Coalition Provisional Authority via strikes, demonstrations and civil disobedience and the violent insurgence was more a crime problem then a violent uprising. Then the US enraged the Iraqi population by firing at unarmed protestors (a war crime), arresting protest and union leaders, raiding people homes, preventing Iraqi doctors from performing their duties (a war crime), preventing civilians from fleeing a battlefield (a war crime), shot injured insurgence that no longer pose a threat (a war crime), mistreating prisioners (a war crime). The US taught the Iraqis that the only thing the US understands is violence.
Just remeber there is still the old insurgence that are there just to cause trouble and have no real nobel cause. Like the ones that take hostages,ect. Then you have the pissed off Iraqis like the ones that blow up pipelines and attack troops rather then just any Iraqi. Lastly racial violence off tribes againt tribes. The US has doen a horrible job bring any stability to Iraq.
how do you feel about Moqtada Sadr? Was he included in the peaceful protesting of occupancy? He seems to be quite a figure. Just asking because he is back in the news.
I don't know, on the surface he seems to fighting to liberate Iraq yet remeber Castro was liberating Cubans from US oppression too yet when that goal was reached and Cubans danced in the streets from beeing free of US oppression, Castro became their new oppressor. That is why the Argentina anarchist movement that has taken control of some communities and factories in Argentina have correctly just told anyone with plans of being a vanguard to forget it, they don't belive in leaders (instead they belive in democracy) and ran anyone that tried to be a vanguard out of town.
the insurgents wouldn't be "insurgents" if the U.S. pulled out as soon as Sadam was ousted. The Insurgents have every right to be doing what they're doing...AS LONG AS IT'S NOT FOR RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALIST PURPOSES, but secular and social (ie. progressive) ones. I mean, they ARE in fact playing defense, are they not? Do they not have a right to protect themselves from corporate/military hegemony over the region by a foreign empire?
The largest reason people are aginst us occupation is JOBS. Iraq has a about a 70% unemployment rate and the workers that are lucky enough ot have jobs are still in poverty. Yet the CPA has done nothing to address the poverty issue that is fueling violence. This is what the media is not showing, that if the US had 70% unemployment and a huge chunk of the people with jobs still in porverty, Americans would be talking about a armed revolution too.
I'm so fed up with the corporate media in this country...i'm about ready to chain myself to the front doors of NBC headquarters. If I could get 5 other people to do it with me, I really would.
