Another day in "Stable" Iraq

[Gixer]

"Four suicide bombers killed some 72 Iraqis which makes nearly 400 Iraqis killed since the  new government was unveiled."

I wonder what price the majority of Iraqis are willing to pay for supporting democracy before they start to think it isn't worth it.


...-Gixer

[rabbidrabbit]

Ya sure, they will be happy to invite Saddam back so he can kill a few more million of them..  Ya, your on it...

[Lizking]

Actually, the more the terrorists kill innocent  Iraqis, the less they will support the selfish ****ers.  I hate to see innocents die, but the terrorists, besides thinnning the ranks of those stupid enough to kill themselves, are showing their true colors to the average Iraqi.

[Lizking]

Also, it is a good thing that worldwide terrorists are attracted to Iraq to display their "honor" and "skill".  The pool of handsomehunkes is limited, and the more we kill (or that kill themselves), the better off the world is.

The argument that killing terrorists creates more terrorists is not relevant to the situation; Iraq is ony ATTRACTING terrorists, not creating them.  Sad for the Iraqi's, but I would just as soon they died over there than over here.

[oboe]

Originally posted by Lizking
....The pool of handsomehunkes is limited...

The argument that killing terrorists creates more terrorists is not relevant to the situation; Iraq is ony ATTRACTING terrorists, not creating them.  Sad for the Iraqi's, but I would just as soon they died over there than over here.

Not to sound smug or anything, but I think you may be incorrect about your assumption on the size of the handsomehunk pool.   Besides, becoming a suicide bomber may only be stupid from out point of view, not theirs.  

Also I see no difference between ATTRACTING terrorists and CREATING - they are still being created somewhere, and our presence in Iraq is the impetus.  Should we ever vacate Iraq (unlikely I think), a new impetus (maybe revulsion of deomcracy in an Islamic state?) will replace the old one, and the terrorism will probably just continue.

[Flit]

The Iraqi people are already turning over more tips then ever before.

[john9001]

in spite of the hopes and dreams of you american haters the terrorists are losing.

[Tumor]

Who gave you the idea that Iraq was "Stable"?

[oboe]

Who are you calling an America hater?

[Lizking]

Oboe, the actual size of the handsomehunk pool is irrelevant.  The fact is that they are killing way more innocent Iraqis than they are Americans, and the Iraqis both realize this and realize that they will not be rid of the Americans until the handsomehunk pool is eliminated.

The fact remains:

handsomehunk terrorists are dying in Iraq, not the US, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the logical course of ation to take.  Plus, anyway you look at it, we have more resources than the handsomehunk pool, so unless the US loses it's nerve, ala Vietnam, we, and Iraq (to say nothing of the world), win.

[Yeager]

yever wonder what planet gixer is transmitting from?  Im not knocking him and I respect his opinion but sometimes he seems a bit off to me.

okay, to topic:  iraq isnt stable and probably wont approach stability by western standards for ten years or more.

[Lizking]

I have no doubt that Gixer is from the plant Wish-in-one-hand-****-in-the-other, just like so many of his ilk.

[Lizking]

And that is not personal to you, Gixer, but applies to about 10% of the world, who, unfortunately, have control of about 80% of the media.

[oboe]

I'm just not as confident of the situation as you are, Liz.   We are 7.5 trillion in debt, which is increasing at a rate of 2 billion per day.
We've spent $300 billion in Iraq, (275 million per day).    

I'm not sure we can say how all the Iraqis think.   I'm more likely to think they don't all think the same- there are Sunni, Shiite, and Kurd and each may view the terrible situation their country is in differently.     I view basically as a 3 way civil war going as the new government tries to get established.  

I don't think the US will "lose its nerve" and pull out of Iraq.   (Although I don't think that's an appropriate way to phrase it).  Though I am starting to think of it more like a Viet Nam - it seems to be handled in the media more and more - at least it seems to me we are getting into the "body count" mentality that we had in Viet Nam.  But certainly the Middle East is far more valuable to the US strategically than Viet Nam ever was.

[Drunky]

It's the Oil Stupid [/b]