Ford Prefect wrote:And to think all this could have been avoided so easily if some stupid cowboy didn't decide to "liberate" a people who had no wish to be "liberated". :roll:
Iraq the Model. Those guys seem glad for it... and read over their comments about conversations with friends.
I'd be more sympathetic to some of these opinions if Iraq or the Iraqi people had asked for the U.S. to invade them.
Tell me, how do you go about collecting those opinions during Saddam's reign?
How much joy did you expect them to express, you have destroyed their government, destroyed the ability of the police to enforce law and order, destroyed their infrastructure leaving them living in the stone age and are setting them up to suffer years of civil war in the years to come. No big sloppy kisses for you Uncle Sam.
Iraqis are as divided as anybody else. Some of them are expressing tons of joy, and some of them are hella mad. Some of them see the s*** that got blown up and they get mad about that, and some of them see all the
good stuff happening in Iraq and are pleased with the US presence.
It always impresses me how cynical some people can be when most of what they hear from Iraqis is what some news organization tells them. What's more impressive is how sure they are of their opinions. "OMG the Iraqis all hate us!" That's not what I hear from the Iraqis I read, and that's not what I hear from soldiers on the ground. I don't think they all love us, but I know a decent number of them are happy with what we've done so far. And don't even get me started on Afghanistan...
Oh, and I'm not sure what you think "all could have all been avoided" -- do you think if the US hadn't liberated Iraq, woodchip wouldn't be posting stupid racist crap? I think you'd have to go back to "if Al Qaeda didn't attack New York City..." to get that result. Maybe he'd be less annoying about posting such things if there was no Iraq war, but I'm pretty sure most of the anti-Arab/Muslim racism you see here is built on a foundation of 9/11, and whatever happens in Iraq is just the icing on the cake.