How can anyone who even has the slightest knowledge of the history of the Middle East not know this?
They have been warring for Centuries!
I have a feeling we have started something in Iraq that will keep us involved in that area for ................decades at least!
2007-07-17 15:45:24 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
All we can do is watch fox news and listen to hate radio until the war on terror is over.
2007-07-17 15:47:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Before this ever began, the president was quite clear that it was going to take a long, long time. What you are seeing in Iraq right now is not a civil war. A civil war is where a group of rebels attack and attempt to overthrow their country's government. That is not what is happening in Iraq. What you have here is quite different. You have old scores being settled by various groups. You have an insurgency and you have foreign terrorists supported primarily by Iran.
The terrorists of the world as well as the tyrannical governments in the area know that if Iraq is successful in growing and maintaining the democracy they voted in after the elimination of Saddam, it is a major threat to their own governments. The last thing Syria, Iran and other countries in that region want their own people to see is a free country in their midst. These people rule only through fear. The populations of these countries are afraid of being killed by their own leaders. This keeps them in line.
Compare that to the American legacy, the legacy of free men. "Give me liberty or give me death". Americans, living in a truly free country would actually rather die fighting than live in bondage. Why? Because liberty is that powerful, that awesome that contagious. If the people of the Middle East get a taste of liberty it becomes impossible to put the genie back into the bottle.
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2007-07-17 16:00:14 · answer #2 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scholars? That's elite liberal talk. Why should we take advice from someone who is actually familiar with the facts and has spent time studying the issues? We don't need none of that high-falootin' book learnin'. All we need is "gut feel" and maybe a little talk with God to make decisions like whether or not tens of thousands of people should die. If that doesn't work, we'll clear some brush and something will come to us.
The Republican Party: leading America ... into the 19th century.
2007-07-17 15:51:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have to agree. the ensuing civil war was already expected way before the war even started.
the guerilla warfare now being utilized by insurgents was also expected.
there were no doubts that the US can defeat Saddam's army, however, questions were already raised about the ensuing civil war and the chaos that will follow.
2007-07-17 15:50:08 · answer #4 · answered by Carlo_ice 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think that Bush needs a conflict so as that he can take over and declare himself the recent dictator! He particular has completed a rattling good activity attempting to do it here. as a count number of certainty he had declared himself above our regulation by way of pointing out that he might desire to torture every physique if he felt it particularly is grow to be to guard the U. S. from injury. it particularly is an incredible sentiment and all yet i do no longer think of he could have the skill to bypass against regulations that are already in place.
2016-10-08 23:17:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No kidding - I predicted it back in 1990 when we first invaded. Luckily Bush's dad was smart enough not to go all the way to Baghdad and try to occupy Iraq.
2007-07-17 16:19:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bush and Cheney didn't want to surround themselves with scholars.. Or what they call those "smart thinkers" See anybody with half a brain would have pointed out the flaws in their plan, and these guys don't like it when people don't blindly follow with zero free thought....
2007-07-17 15:49:23 · answer #7 · answered by usefulidiot230 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the war is not going to end unless the whole country dies
once i wa watching this show a year ago asking soldiers why they are in war right now and one of the guys said, "to test the power of the army"
i think its because they want to send a "message" to the other countries BTW my family is iraqi and they said that there was going to be a civil war
2007-07-17 15:48:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wasn't Chalabi the Administration's Middle East Expert - the one the CIA warned the Administration not to trust? There you have it.
2007-07-17 15:50:36 · answer #9 · answered by flushles 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
WRONG!!!
in the first Gulf war Bush SR. knew exactly the dangers of entering Baghdad and over throwing Saddam's regime.
they knew then and still know now but it was a matter of taking the risk. and bush Jr and his cronies took that risk.
2007-07-17 15:49:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋