Posted on 07/19/2007 8:42:14 PM PDT by gpapa
WASHINGTON - Iraq is a nation gripped by fear and struggling to meet security and political goals by September, U.S. officials said Thursday from Baghdad, dashing hopes in Congress that the country might turn a corner this summer. One general said not to expect a solid judgment on the U.S. troop buildup until November.
"If there is one word, I would use to sum up the atmosphere in Iraq — on the streets, in the countryside, in the neighborhoods and at the national level — that word would be 'fear,'" Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"For Iraq to move forward at any level, that fear is going to have to be replaced with some level of trust and confidence and that is what the effort at the national level is about," he said by video link from the Iraqi capital.
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If I were the Iraqi’s I’d be fearful too listening to the crap coming from the U.S. Congress.
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These people are ensuring their sluaghter if they DON”T help us now.
What do they have to lose by helping us now?
I’m sure they know that the coward liberals want to cut n run before the job is finished. That would have me worried.
I would be petrified - and fear that anything I did that might be seen as helping the troops would be my death sentence in the near future/
I cannot believe the traitors in DC don't know this.
One has to wonder, why do they REALLY not want us to stay and win? Are there people/documents that might reveal some connections that they fear?
It just doesn't make sense that they can be that dense or so full of hate or hungry for power that they could, essentially, not care if they could be condemning hundreds of thousands of people to slaughter and the rest back to the dark ages....not to mention put the US and the world in deep jeopardy.
They act frenzied - like someone is desperate to keep something from coming to light.
I think that was the indirect implication.
Except for the fact that the AP WANTS to spread the perception of fear and chaos...
Oh, they know alright.
nothing...but their lives, if we pull out.
Were it not for the traitorous rats back here, I believe they would have been helping us big time long before now.
Remember, we pulled out before and left the Kurds high and dry after they helped us. And they were slaughtered.
We may not understand how afraid they are because we have never had to live under the terrors they have.
It's easy to think they should just stand up and be seen helping out more - many are, and many are being killed for it - and we're still there. They have to be thinking - they're going to leave soon - I will loose my head...literally
Ahh, so we see why Harry and company are playing their sick games: if the democrats can scare the Iraqis enough they will cease to cooperate and be silent allowing the democrat’s allies, al Qaeda to surge against our troops without help from the Iraqi people afraid of their fate once the democrats succeed in pulling us out of Iraq before pacification is a reality. I just hate the democrats ... the democrap party needs an insurgent movement, to rid the party of these seditious bastards like Reid, Harkin, and Kennedy.
>>”If there is one word, I would use to sum up the atmosphere in Iraq — on the streets, in the countryside, in the neighborhoods and at the national level — that word would be ‘fear,’” Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“For Iraq to move forward at any level, that fear is going to have to be replaced with some level of trust and confidence and that is what the effort at the national level is about,” he said by video link from the Iraqi capital.<<
No, For Iraq to move forward at any level, that fear is going to have to be replaced with full cooperation. Start turning in the terrorists. The longer you hide their identities the longer they will kill you.
Of course they are scared..what an understatement. Going from Saddam’s government with no thought process except to stay alive..to the current struggle to establish a stable government of some kind. Amid the car bombings, religious battles and cessation of economic progress. I think about that situation, if it were to happen in my neighborhood. I’d be scared, too.
I read, and don’t know if it’s true, that under Saddam, the general population was provided with a certain amount of food every week. No choice in what was provided.But it was provided. A form of control over the population. For a generation of people.
It will be hard for these people to stand up, although they try.
Bless our troops..and protect all in this country.
Thesaurus:
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Democrats, thy name is Sedition.
The new spin. Yes we have defeated Al Queda in Iraq, but the people are still fearful.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I watched this video conference. Almost every Senator spent much more time huffing and puffing about the “political benchmarks” instead of listening or asking relevant questions. It was just political cover anyway; the military benchmarks, “the surge”, are positive, so they ignored the details of that and went after the still outstanding political benchmarks. This video conference was set up to give them a “pivot point” they can later refer to in explaining why they changed emphasis in their positions.
They are still providing food allotments. It is in their constitution, as if free housing, medical care, and education. That government has a lot to do without the Congress giving them benchmarks.
As near as I can tell, Iraqui’s in the highest positions are begining to understand the U.S. may just pull out of their country. Its beginning to filter throughout the ranks that they just may have to deal with their own crap.
They’re coming to the realization that the discussion here is quite serious and heated. Withdrawal of U.S. troops is a very real option.
You watch what happens when the Iraquis catch wind that U.S. forces are going to pull out. Furthermore, watch what will happen to world oil prices when the Iraqui government collapses prior to a U.S. withdrawal.
Moreover, has anybody considered the co$t of a pull-out? What has historically occured with respect to those “occupying” powers when they extracted themselves from a distasteful situation?
For example, what historial precedent is there that if the U.S. military announces a withdrawal of forces from Iraq, that that Iraqui forces that the U.S. government has been aligned with will not attack us during withdrawal?
“Are there people/documents that might reveal some connections that they fear?”
No. That isn’t the problem. It’s modern Liberalism Groupthink that is the problem. (Long explanation to back up my bluster, but that is what it is.)
No arrogant bastard “Liberal”, “Progressive”, “Intellectual” should be allowed a position in Governance over those they deem so inferior to themselves. It reflects in their lack of leadership as Pelosi, Reid and so many other Democrats so aptly display.
Liberals are a self adulating, arrogant lot.
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