ALRIGHT! Whats going ON here?

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

Jason, we havent liberated Iraq~ those people are going thru even more Hell than they were when Saddam was in
power!

I have to get ready for work, but I'll be looking for material later.

When I say liberated Iraq, I am talking about from SH, which the initial invasion did. Interestingly, most of Iraq is fairly peaceful in that the insurgencies seem to be in a particular area.

To hear you tell it, all of Iraq is in total chaos, which it is not

Interestingly, the US has indeed made fairly large strides towards an independant Iraq. That being said, there is still a fairly long way to gao, but that IMO is fast becoming the problem of the Iraqi govt. and we should being a phased pull out as soon as possible. I do think the insurgents are scared of that because the US is bound by a certain code of conduct (I get that a few soldiers did not adhere to that, but they were bound nonetheless) - the Iraqi govt. is not. In other words, the Iraqi govt. will rule with an iron fist and I think the insurgents are a little scared of that.