Posted on 12/09/2004 12:12:14 AM PST by paudio
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Iraq's interim president said Wednesday he sees no reason why the insurgency should not be vanquished within a year and Iraq well on its way toward becoming a constitutional democracy.
"Why not?" Ghazi al-Yawar said in a CNN interview. "We're not fighting a Viet Cong, which has principles and popular support. We are fighting Saddam loyalists. ... They know they are fighting for a losing battle. The whole Iraqi population is against them. I'm sick and tired of them.
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But mostly we're not fighting in jungles.
I somehow do not recall finding the VC to be overly pricipled.
This isn't possible. The media has been telling me we will occupy Iraq for at least 10 years.
...a jungle of mosques maybe...
Correct nomenclature please!
Mosque=terrorist barracks
LOL...right!
LOL!
well...
We still are not out of Japan or Germany. Damn it! What WAS Truman's exit strategery???
Iraq's interim president said Wednesday he sees no reason why the insurgency should not be vanquished within a year and Iraq well on its way toward becoming a constitutional democracy.
From your lips to Gods ear.
You don't suppose the USSR had a little some thng to do with that?
For what it's worth I do believe we are going to have forces in Iraq for quite a long time. With a much smaller footprint than now, but they'll be there.
First, yes, I believe that we will be a strong force, if not a true occupation force, for 10 more years at least. We still have troops in Europe from WWII, and at least in Europe we were dealing with a developed society, not a tribal situation as it exists in Iraq.
And second, Paudio, I don't buy the "We are fighting Saddam loyalists" business. I know those aren’t your words, but I would still like to respond to them. The Iraqi people were not big supporters of Saddam for the past decade or so. Maybe they were when he first came to power. But not now. And from all our estimations, there would have to be a lot of regular Iraqis out there killing our guys. So then, if they're not fighting because they loved Saddam, then why do they fight us? Put simply, because we are there. I know if, say, my county was to be invaded by a foreign country, for whatever good or bad intention, we here would take up arms and explosives and whatever else we could find. And we would do our best to drive them out. Would we be doing this because we are all Bush Loyalists? No, we'd be doing it to defend our homeland, our families, our houses, all the people and things we love.
I believe the same is true about many of the Iraqis fighting against us. Sure, there are some left over Fedayeen types, but I believe the majority are just people trying to defend themselves. It's not like they all have TV's and are watching CNN all the time saying "hey, the Americans are here to liberate us!". For the most part, they don't have a clue about who those camouflaged guys are or why they're there. They just don't like seeing their friends and family die.
Now don't get me wrong, I am in NO way supporting the people over there killing OUR friends and families. I just don't see a reason not to be honest about motives. Ours and theirs.
AV
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