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There are always appeasers in every nation. And I know there is a tendency to be very angry at Iraqi's who think that way. But all you have to do is look no futher than a current senate leader and brother of a former president to find appeasers here in the USA. Kennedy,Carter and Kerry are appeasers...

Why would we think that there would not be a lot of them in Iraq?

I would invite you to look at the number of appeasers in our own country during our revolutionary war. The Torries in the USA nearly equaled the revolutionaries.

The liberal press will play the Iraqi appeasers up big time. But that does not mean they will prevail. There was a lot of discussion about surrender in our own continental congress. It was not covered in thte history books. Benedict Arnold thought the appeasers were a majority and going to win. So do the appeasers in Iraq.

ITtis to be expected... and both our military and civilian leadership has certainly anticipated what is happening. Smart leaders anticipate and prepare for every eventuality. They just can't know which of the things they anticipate will actually happen.

Most of the militant Muslims believe that Allah would not allow the destruction of a Mosque .... especially with them in it. When we blow one a Mosque and the people in it the Militants can have just one of 2 conclusions. Allah did not think them worthy of saving or Allah does not exist. Once Religious zealots come to doubt their religious beliefs they are easily defeated.

They were absolutely certain we would not and could not bomb a Mosque. The fact that we did will shake their resolve and their faith in Allah.

Then maybe we should should bomb them all to remove all doubts...

Most of the militant Muslims believe that Allah would not allow the destruction of a Mosque .... especially with them in it. When we blow one a Mosque and the people in it the Militants can have just one of 2 conclusions. Allah did not think them worthy of saving or Allah does not exist. Once Religious zealots come to doubt their religious beliefs they are easily defeated. They were absolutely certain we would not and could not bomb a Mosque. The fact that we did will shake their resolve and their faith in Allah.

You could write for Bill O'Reilly!

477 posted on 04/07/2004 9:31:56 AM PDT by Common Tator

Bump to the top for that post!!

I agree and think in many ways the Bush administration has played this very very smart:

1. They waited until the bad guys behaved so badly there was a demand in the US that we go into Fallujah. Had they not, the US would take much much more heat for the collateral damage.

2. They did not arrest al-Sadr as so as they had the warrant signed in which case the US would have been blamed for the fight with his supporters, they let them start the fight and then announced he was wanted.

3. The closed al-Sadr's newspaper forcing his hand which will get his guys out of they way so they can not cause trouble in June at the transition.

4. They have despite all the pundit and Dim calls for a plan and who they are handing control over to kept this close to their vest. If they made a public announcement now, they would just make the Iraqi leaders more of a target as happened with the first department turned over. That Iraqi was the target of an attempted assination right away.

Now the administration has not been perfect. Some of this endangers US troops a bit. But they had to keep support at home.

Of course it is not the plan today, but we have kept troops in Germany for the last 60 years. I would not be surprised if US troops in bases were not in Iraq for many many years. A nice big base in the North between the Kurds and the Suni might be nice. Another nice big base south of Baghdad about where Shiite Iraqi begins in earnest would also fit the bill.