Empathy Exercise

[militarymuscle69]

Cotton candy for dessert?

again..I can't help that your inmature mind can't grasp that there are good things going on in Iraq...just keep being negative nancy and only look at the bad things...your life won't get better so why would you think someone elses would.....

[Decker]

What I am saying is the insurgency isn't representative of the average Iraqi, Like the people in Sadr's militia...they are Iraqi, but are followers of a mad man that sees this as his one chance to become the new saddam....

I'm not saying that some of them are good people.  I'm just pointing out that they are Iraqi citizens.

[Laughing Sam's Dice]

again..I can't help that your inmature mind can't grasp that there are good things going on in Iraq...just keep being negative nancy and only look at the bad things

Hilarious!  Just like a Nazi soldier pointing out the good things that were being done in the country he invaded.

[militarymuscle69]

I'm not saying that some of them are good people.  I'm just pointing out that they are Iraqi citizens.

and I agree with you, but really decker...we are not at war with Iraq.....

[Decker]

and I agree with you, but really decker...we are not at war with Iraq.....

We attacked Iraq and destroyed the Hussein administration.

By all valid accounts, the insurgency is made up of Iraqi people.

If we are not fighting the Iraqi people, who are we fighting?

We are fighting Iraq b/c we are fighting Iraqi people whom we've called insurgents.

True, some Al Qaeda was drawn to Iraq to take potshots at our soldiers, but that doesn't change the fundamental makeup of the battles between US soldiers and Iraqi insurgents.

[militarymuscle69]

We attacked Iraq and destroyed the Hussein administration.

By all valid accounts, the insurgency is made up of Iraqi people.

If we are not fighting the Iraqi people, who are we fighting?

We are fighting Iraq b/c we are fighting Iraqi people whom we've called insurgents.

True, some Al Qaeda was drawn to Iraq to take potshots at our soldiers, but that doesn't change the fundamental makeup of the battles between US soldiers and Iraqi insurgents.

but in your other link, of the 7 groupd they detailed, only 2 were fichting for "iraq"....how is that majority?

[headhuntersix]

Hilarious!  Just like a Nazi soldier pointing out the good things that were being done in the country he invaded.

Not alot of schools built or supplies handed out in POland during the war.

[w8tlftr]

Hilarious!  Just like a Nazi soldier pointing out the good things that were being done in the country he invaded.

Can someone please put the troll back in his cage?

[Decker]

but in your other link, of the 7 groupd they detailed, only 2 were fichting for "iraq"....how is that majority?

This information should clear up any question then:

Iraqi Insurgents

A breakdown of estimates by the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit

Unemployed, Poor              30 percent

Criminals, Thugs              30 - 35 percent

Former Baath Party
or Military Personnel         20 percent

Ethno-religious Fighters      10 percent

Foreign Fighters              5 percent
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/27/eveningnews/main669892.shtml

Before the invasion, Iraq was not an ally of Al Qaeda.  President Bush made overtures to the US public stating otherwise.  That was dishonest.

The US attacked Iraq, deposed its government and became an occupying force.

The Middle East is a powder keg largely b/c of the military occupation of Palestine by Israel.

That is a 40 year occupation with violent attacks going on to this day.

Here is the lesson that the Bush Administration failed to learn from that:

Rule by a foreign military occupation force, no matter how well intentioned, is inherently anti-democratic and the people of the occupied territory will never tolerate that.