Mr. President
BOARD PRESIDENT..carry on
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so it's ignorant to look at the statistics and see that the violence has NOT been reduced in Iraq? I see how that works...thanks for the 411
Statistics say violence has been reduced.
if the purpose of the surge and the purpose for the continued occupation of Iraq is to bring peace and stability to the region then they are failing miserably IMO.
The purpose was to reduce violence not eliminate it. I refer you to my above comment.
as for the comparison of what if someone committs a murder in my town do I fault the government or police? well if the government or police took what was before a pretty stable neighborhood (even if I didn't agree with how it was run), rolled their forces in, took out the mayor of that neighborhood and allowed unfriendly and dangerous insurgents from other neighborhoods to set up shop there and people were dying in mass suicide bombings? then yeah, I'd say I'd blame them...damn right.
Yes the government was stable for Sadam and his regime but not for the millions murdered on his whims.
personally I'm disgusted that ANYONE would think that the life of ONE American serviceman/woman is worth the lives of 100 muslims.
Personally Im disgusted at anyone who thinks that American soldiers should be killed instead of the enemy who is killing civilians.
and not all muslims are the enemy strolling, think that's true is feeding into the propoganda that the muslims on those planes are just regular muslims. There were extremists. There are extremists in every religion that would just as soon kill you as allow you to believe different than they do.
But strolling is not an extremist and is simply stating that the life of a soldier is worth more than the life of a terrorist and i agree. In this case the terrorist happen to be muslim or islamic extremist.
were there suicide bombers killing innocents prior to our occupation? yes, were they an every day occurence? not to my knowledge.
You are absolutely right they were not suicide bombing because they could walk into a city and kill anyone they pleased. If they walked into a city with ak47's and tried that now the US military would destroy them with minimal effort thus they had to change their killing tactics. They did not however change their targets, iraqi civilians.
the beheadings are wrong no doubt about that....but in their CULTURE that is how the deal with what they deem criminal behavior. In Saudi do they not chop off the hand of someone who steals? also they behead people in public too. why do we look the other way for them and not for Iraq?
So if their culture says violence is the answer should the United States behead every person we capture as a criminal of war in order to respect their culture?