If you were an Iraqi, would you thank Bush or curse him for destroying your country?

Question

Or would you join the insurgency?

Answer 1

i would do neither. but i would STRONGLY dislike him.

Answer 2

The vast majority of Iraqi people (Shiite and Kurds) were overjoyed and appreciative at the overthrow of Saddam. There were 2 mistakes made immediately thereafter... 1 was the total eradication of the Iraqi security forces, and 2 was delaying the installation of a strong temporary Iraqi government. America has now given the different factions of Islam time to generate hopes that each can rule the country if they will only "fight the good fight". The original plans for Iraq now must be done away with. Now the only hope is 1 nation, with 3 states mirroring the government and constitution of the United States. The citizens of Iraq are already moving into 3 distinct geographical areas. Continue that movement, and keep the oil, for the nation as a whole, with individual state's needs to be financed from it based upon population.

Answer 3

You are asking people who have no idea what the Iraqi's went through before the war! That's real nice. What would an American or any other citizen of a privileged country even begin to know about what they have suffered, Ask yourself that question, but put some real thought into, pretend like you are an 8 year old Iraqi girl under Saddam's regime, and your mother and father have been taken from you for keeping money from the Iraqi government so that they can feed you! And you were raped and beaten for just being their child, would you still curse Bush and join the insurgency?

Answer 4

the notion that most people would hate and join the insurgency is asenine and shows ignorance. Its always a few bad apples spoiling a bunch. There are threefold sources of insurgents.
First, Ideological Iraqi nationalist insurgents are on the downtrend. Local defenses are slowly stabilizing and there is a civil war between factions fighting over the scraps. Also there are raiders from outside Iraq creeping in all over the place to keep it disrupted, because they know wherever it is they come from is next on the menu.
The bravest of Iraqis are those that somehow find the strength to continue their lives and avoid disruptions or deal with them. The inner strength of such people is something to marvel at. This, btw represents the bulk of the Iraqi people.

Answer 5

I'm an american whos living in fairly good times and I still curse bush what do you think I would do if I was living in Iraq being bomb constantly by all 1 mill sides in this war? I just honestly pray that I am never given the name terrorist in my own country because I speak out against the current admin and that it needs to be changed asap. Of course I have a fear that someday not to distant in the future even thoughts will have a police.

Answer 6

The Iraqi's I have met admire Bush and the U.S. military for what they have done.
They tell me though that many non Iraqi terrorists have entered Iraq and it is they that now need to be destroyed. Until those militants are killed, there will be no peace.
They also say that if the Liberals in the U.S. congress make the U.S. Military leave early, the terrorists will use Iraq as a base from which to attack Europe and the Western World.

Answer 7

If I was one of the millions of Iraqis that had my family wiped out by Saddam and the Baath party, I'd thank him and I'd feel sorry for his troops that had to hear so much garbage from half baked idiots at home that don't understand it's a war that has to be fought somewhere.

Answer 8

I can't answer that. WHICH Iraqi am I (even hypothetically)? Saddam Hussain? One of the ones tortured by his government? One of the 100,000 or so that have been killed since the U.S. declared war? Which Muslim sect do I belong to? I don't think we've yet gotten any cold hard facts about whether Iraqis are better or worse off and I don't think we ever will.

Answer 9

Neither, because i wouldn't have electricity or a phone to speak to him, and i'd be more worried about my own survival and being able to cook some food without using a burning war machine, while looking over my shoulder to make sure a terrorist wasn't going to blow me up, or an American gun me down.

Answer 10

Wowie, what a LOADED question!

I imagine that if I were a sh'ite I'd be praising Bush, also if I was a Kurd. If I was a sunni I suppose I'd be cursing him. The sunnis loved Saddam. Go figure.

I'd be interested in hearing about why you feel that Bush "destroyed their country". Is that what CNN told you? Nancy Pelosi? Chuck Schumer?

Answer 11

It's a huge question. I think at this point I would try my best to ignore Bush and to try and have some participation in a new government rather than let the 'thems' do it all and have to go back to it again later.