Libs, have you ever heard the term, "divide and conquer", and do you understand what it means?

Question

Do you understand that the vast majority of Iraqi people do not want secular bloodshed?

Do you not understand that the extremists have a better chance of taking over the country, if they divide the people in Iraq against one another? Do you think most Iraqi's are extremists, who want that?

Why do liberals think that all Iraqi's are extremist animals, and are incapable of wanting to live in freedom?

Answer 1

OK smart guy, now convince me that what we are doing over there is actually helping to keep the population together and keep the extremists out. Seems to me that there is a lot more trouble over there now than when Saddam was still in power...

Answer 2

Yes I understand what that means But ??? The Iraqi's are obvious already divided against each other. This all erupted because of the chaos created by the invasion.

I hear more conservatives on here saying that all muslim are evil extremists. You make a generalization that makes no sense.

Sure some are capable of WANTING to live in freedom, they justdon't seem to be capable of getting along at the moment..

ANd do you realize that millions of the more reasonable Iraqis have left the country.

Also, if it is the case that the vast majority don't want secular bloodshed, then you should have no problem with us removing our troops...

Answer 3

I find the bible so often 'hidden in plain view'. If I research a word, which I really have to be led to do, since there are a lot of words, right? Who is to know what do research? I have to be led into this, or that has been my experience. I'll give one example of my experience. For some reason, hidden also from me, I looked up in the Greek, the meaning for 'repentance'. I think it had to do with it being used as a noun and verb in the same verse. When I saw the Greek word, and then really looked at the meaning of each part of the word, I was so uplifted and astounded, that it was like a 'eureka' experience. Many words fit that. Then when I researched the sower and the seed putting together what I do know, I was again astounded. Space/time would not permit documentation here. Also, there are some things best found because it's far more precious that way.

Answer 4

You seem to think you know what is going on in Iraq, like you have your hand on the pulse of the Iraqi people. You're an idiot. First of all, not just "libs" want the US out of Iraq.. over 75% of the country does.. are we all libs? The US went in like cowboys, and what did we guard on day 1? Do you remember? The oil ministry. We set up camps in Sadaams palaces in spite.. does this ring a bell? Fast forward 4 years and we've created the freaking mess the Iraqis have to live with. I feel sorry for them, because they are not animals. But we treated them like animals.. we called them collateral damage, remember? Fallujah? White Phosphorus? Ring a bell? Yes, we used WMD on people that we were supposively helping rid an evil dictator from.. and for what? WMD? If they are divided, its because of the way we handled the war. We treated them like animals.

Divide and conquer? Its when politicians and the media turn Americans against each other.. Blue vs Red. Then they replace the constitution with the Patriot act. Before you know it.. we're conquered.

Answer 5

Liberals don't think that, liberals understand that a majority of iraqis hate americans, and this hate creates further tension among themselves. Liberals also understand that virtually every man in iraq has acces to a firearm yet is unwilling to commit to a free iraq, and all too willing to let americans provide security. Increasing troop strength leads to increasing american casualties which leads to increasing iraqi casualties becasue u.s. troops must defend themselves. This creates further hatred spiraling the country further into disaster. We must fall back, reducing our presence and allow iraqi security forces to take over. These individuals, though corrupt, are fellow muslims and speak arabic and understand the people. We will be in iraq for a long time, but we will not be playing a major role, we will provide weapons and guide the iraqis, making sure groups like al-qeada will not be tolerated. We will keep 20-30k soldiers there; enough to oversee their progress, but not enough to break our army doing so. Remember it's been four years and iraq has only gotten worse, clearly our presence hasn't done much, except create further hatred. With reduced presence iraqis will not have to fear retaliation for cooperating with us. It's important to remember that foriegn armies have rarely ever defeated an insurgency, and it never happened in the 20th century, and peace has always come after the foriegn army left. Sometimes this results in good outcome, other times bad outcome, like the taliban after the soviets lost to an insurgency. However, at the end of the day it will depend on the will of the iraqis, not our will

Answer 6

Hmmm. Why didn't anyone in the neocon camp think of this before invading Iraq in peacetime?

Everybody's an extremist about SOMETHING, it's just that nobody has invaded the US and destroyed our basic utilities (water treatment, sewage treatment, electric grid, oil refining) in an effort to steal our resources while claiming to give us 'freedom' or 'democracy.'

I think the Iraqis want the US out of there, and they keep having demonstrations to that effect. Isn't that clear enough to you, or do you want ALL the factions, including the current government, to coalesce into one big group to make it happen?

Answer 7

I don't think the "majority" want war... but a good deal of Iraqis seem to be causing the trouble...

just where do you get your ideas on who is "causing trouble" and who is not?

this is the only cite I know of that actually discusses the actual numbers, according to defense intel... and it's kind of surprising...

I've looked for others, but I've not found any... please share if you have some... but this paints a bad picture, if you ask me

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/16/AR2006111601509.html

and I've never heard a liberal call them "animals"... just particpants in a civil war... it's vastly different

Answer 8

First
it was stay the course...
then it was cut and run
now its divide and conquer

Nomatter what you try to call it, the same failed foreign policy keeps IRAQ governement from making progress
keeps our troops dying because they are shot at from both sides.
And has only embolded the enemy and brought Al Queda into a region they were never linked to IRAQ until after we failed to stabalize the rgion for the first 3 years we were there.

Call it what you want -- its stil a complete failure

Tlak about beating a dead horse here.

Answer 9

Do you understand that the overwhelming number of Iraqis want us to leave?

We do respect them; we never wanted you disgusting warmongers to invade them in the first place.

You are the ones who sanctioned their mass murder and torture. I'm sure they thank you for all your support.

Pretty silly attempt at 'straw man' here. Do you know what that means? Look it up.

Answer 10

We all need to understand the concept. Our enemies are using that against us.