You make it too easy, Joe. LOL!
From my understanding very few. Even our own troops complained they were not supported by the majority of the people.
How many Iraqi soldiers and police officers have been killed in the line of duty? How many innocent men, women and children have been blown up by terrorist bombs??
Lots of people get blown up by suicided bombers, however this does not address what I stated. I stated that overall, the majority of Iraqis, (not all) stood on the sidelines watching us fight their fight from the time we rolled in. I think this has been pretty well established. There are even reports from our own military that stated some of the few that were trained by us actually ran away from, or decide not to fight when things got tough. Again, this has been pretty well documented.
The President stated the Iraqis have earned our respect. I would say this is a little premature. Once we leave, when ever that may be, it will be interesting to see if they can hold this thing together, and hang tough, spilling their own blood to keep this freedom. Only when that happens will they gain some respect from me.
The reality now is, the Iraqis should be thanking us, and showing some big time respect for *us*.
Ya know, I just realized, he said nothing about the tsunami.
I'm not saying he should, but just imagine Clinton...he would've made that the centerpiece of his SOTU. I suspect it took a lot of message discipline to leave it out.
You make it too easy, Joe. LOL!
The casualty rate in the battle of Fallujah was higher for the Iraqi brigade than it was for our troops. One thousand out of two thousand Iraqi's joined us in the fight. Not one of the one thousand turned back.
From my understanding, the casualty rate for the Iraqi police force has also been high. In fact all I've heard about over the last few months are numerous killings of the Iraqi police.
Add to that, election workers were photographed as they were executed. Yet, the Iraqi's turned out to vote at a higher rate than we do in this country.
Millions risked their lives, dipped their fingers in bright purple paint and voted. Your "understanding" of what is going on in Iraq emanates from the MSM and is wrong.