>In real life alliances and enemies change, it's fluid. There
>are plenty of evil dictators we're not doing anything about.
>As my president said, we will respond at a time and place of
>our chosing when we are threatened. And hey, if some poor
>soles living under the thumb of some bastard get liberated,
>all the better. Ask the Iraqis if all in all, considering
>the deaths and desctruction, tragic as they truly are, they
>are better off than they were under Saddam, my guess is they
>will say yes. Who are you to say they are wrong and that
>they should live in fear?


Funnily enough, neither Rumsfeld or Bush mentioned this in the build uo to war.

Also, you are a long way from getting Iraqi support. If I was the man who killed your daughhter, and tore the arms and eyes from your sons and decapitated yopure wife in an effort to "liberate" you, if I said I was sorry afterwards would that change anything? Would I expect you to say "thanks"? It'll be a long time before those scars heal. the number of civilian deaths and disfigurements, the use of cluster bombs on civillian suburbs, the shooting of women and children, the sight of decapitated babies will live long in the memories of Iraqi's and westerners alike.

There is a concept in the Koran called the Ummah, the body of Islam. Under this concept and attack on an individual muslim by an infidel is an attack on Islam itself, therefore all muslims. Something that you may want to remember in years to come.

Osama Bin Laden is extremely happy about the war in Iraq. Saddam, his avowed enemy is gone and all of a sudden he haas gone from being a fairly marginalised extremist to a popular folk hero in the space of about 2 months. Nice result.

People in Iraq want the US out ASAP. That is the overall impression I get. It would be the clever thing to do before real resentment and guerilla warfare set in. But funnily enough I don't see it happening until the oil pipeline to Israel is built.