Is it ok to cheer on the insurgents?

Question

They are the underdog. We ( The USA ) are in their country illegally so really the USA is the terrorist. We are powerful and the insurgents are rag tag but they are hurting the USA day in and day out. I believe this is amazing. I will cheer on the insurgents due to them fighting for their country.

Answer 1

"The troops" have killed over 30,000 Iraqi men, women, and children?

The troops have tortured prisoners.

Our troops even shot the tiger to death at the Baghdad zoo.

Still, youre suppossed to support the troops. Havent you read all the bumper stickers?

Answer 2

No, it's not OK to cheer on the insurgents. They'll kill civilians from the other religious factions if it makes a headline. They want to be the small minority with all the AK-47 rifles as they were from 1979 to 2003. Their hero, Saddam Hussein, refused to keep the cease-fire --and-- so, the USA is n-o-t in Iraq illegally. Nor did the USA go to Iraq without first going properly through Congress for authorization.

The insurgents are nihilists for whom human life means nothing. They are fighting for power for their faction no matter how much blood is spilled. You're cheering the wrong team here.

If you want to root for someone worth supporting, may I recommend the Kurds? They actually understand and use democracy. They are the largest ethnic group in the world without their own nation. They placed their 70,000 armed force under US control on day 1 of the Iraq war in 2003.

Root for Kurdish independence. They deserve it and they are the only friends we have east of Isreal until you get to the Pacific Ocean.

And there's an additional bonus: The reasons for US opposition to Kurdish INDEPENDENCE will get you to the root of what's wrong with American policy in the Middle East.

Answer 3

If you want to cheer on someone, dont cheer on the insurgents.
Who deserves the cheers then (if not the Yanks or the other Allied Forces)? The Iraqi people, who else? The ones who go to work despite the terrorists in government, police, schools, hospitals and even just their own little shops and bars trying to make something of themselves. The ones who still believe in the Iraqi nation despite the stupid religious violence. These are the ones who deserve the support, not the foul Islamists who kill more Iraqi civilians than Yanks and want an evil Islamic Empire in the world.

Stop confusing the Iraqi Nation with the Islamist scum (two different things)!!!

Answer 4

It's easy to be controversial when anonymously posting here on YA. If you were a man, you'd express your beliefs in public. In fact, I dare you: Have some courage and go out on the street corner to cheer on the insurgents. Or if you really have any balls, cheer 'em on while hanging out in Lawton, OK, Fayetteville, NC, etc.

Answer 5

Okay, we get it. You support those we are fighting. Those who either attack us or aid and abet those who attacked us. You support those who want women as slaves. You support those who kill those of other religions. You support those who desire limited and narrow education aimed at propagandizing their children with myth and falsehood.

In this you are consistent with the notes in your profile which state:

“Ashamed to have been in the Military. My DD Form 214 is a worthless piece of paper. Toilet Paper is worth more than a DD Form 214. Served six years active military. An Honorable discharge means crap!!”

Don’t expect others to agree with this diatribe based on myth.

By the way, you should change your name to “rude.” Erudite means something entirely different than the way you act.

One might like to be erudite but hesitate to be rude. This preference is supported by the etymological relationship between erudite and rude. Erudite comes from the Latin adjective rud tus, “well-instructed, learned,” from the past participle of the verb rud re, “to educate, train.” The verb is in turn formed from the prefix ex-, “out, out of,” and the adjective rudis, “untaught, untrained,” the source of our word rude. The English word erudite is first recorded in a work possibly written before 1425 with the senses “instructed, learned.” Erudite meaning “learned” is supposed to have become rare except in sarcastic use during the latter part of the 19th century, but the word now seems to have been restored to favor.

Answer 6

We are there at the invitation of the new government. Since 90% of the insurgents are not Iraqi, I believe they are the interlopers in this scenario.

Answer 7

Screw you!! Cheer on the fight to bring the troops home.. Cheer on the real underdog in this war.. The Iraqi government!! Cheer for them to get set up and end this thing... You are not American!

Answer 8

Just one question.....how in the HELL are they fighting for their own country when they are killing a whole lot more of Iraq's citizens (the insurgent's own people!) then America's soldiers?

Answer 9

Insurgents = thugs, gangs. You want to cheer them? Go there!

Answer 10

By all means, go tell the insurgents you're on their side... just know, they'll probably saw off your big dumb head... You'll think it's Amazing...