Inevitability
April 10th, 2003 2:51 pm

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Sometimes I feel like this guy. Just a bunch of jumbled junk barely held together and forced to walk eternally.

I wonder if some of our soldiers in Iraq didn’t feel the same way after two weeks of crossing the deserts to Baghdad. One can only hope that we are near the end of this battle. The war is far from over, but this full-fledged onslaught may be nearing its end.

Arab Muslims from other countries are promising to come to Iraq’s aid which is just a veiled threat against the US. I fear that our soldiers and our citizens are facing a violent backlash against our actions in Iraq. We should have never touched any of the monuments in Baghdad. We should not be draping or flying US flags on anything but our people and our vehicles.

If there’s one thing we know about the Arab culture, it’s that it’s a culture of honor and reputation. The people of Iraq take their nationality and the symbols of that nationality very seriously. OK, so the statue of Saddam might should come down, but the US soldiers should not have helped. We cannot be seen as the conquerors of that land or its people.

Honestly, it’s too late for these words. The deeds have been done and filmed and beamed around the globe. What we should do now is prepare for the retribution.

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Fyre Knight
April 10th, 2003 6:32 pm

But it was ok for us to blow up the signs of the Nazi party in WW2? The people of Iraq seem to have no problem with trashing statues of Sadam, and considering the fact that our troops are out there busting their balls every day I think they ought to get freedoms to trash icons of the regime that they are supposed to push out. Besides, who really cares if syria or jordan don’t like the fact that we’re putting C4 on sadam’s balls?

Taranis
April 11th, 2003 2:39 pm

Well, this is supposed to be liberation not occupation. That’s the difference between this and what happened in WW2. And a lot people care what Syria and Jordan and Egypt think because that’s where the next terrorists are going to come from.

creative
April 13th, 2003 9:35 pm

I agree that the soldiers probably should not have done the flag thing. They’re young though, and who can identifiy with what their state of mind is (several months of buildup, couple o’ weeks in the desert in a strange land, not sure if they’ll be embraced by the “liberated”, etc.); I’ll cut them some slack on that. Also, they did put Iraq’s (pre-Saddam?) flag on the statue.

To your point on retaliation by the Arab world…

I don’t think they’re unified enough to mount any organized effort (that’s probably not what you meant anyway). Arab/islamic terrorism was going to be a fact of life whether we liberated Iraq or not. If we do what we say we’re going to do in terms of liberating Iraq, helping the people set up a legitimate government, helping to rebuild the infrastructure, providing whatever support they need, then leaving, we will be on our way to curbing anti-Americanism and SOME of the terrorism that goes along with it.

I don’t necessarily believe in inevitability. We have an opportunity here to make positive changes in the attitudes of a lot of people. In my opinion, it will come down to whether or not we keep our word.

Julie
April 16th, 2003 11:13 am

Inevitability:

How sad is it when an American is ashamed of our soldiers actions? I can’t begin to tell you how thankful I am that 18 & 19 year old boys and girls are trying to protect my freedom. When I watched the soldiers drape the American flag over Saddam’s monument, I cried tears of joy. Do you not understand that this man has been building weapons of mass destruction for over 10 years? People don’t build bombs if they don’t intend on using them. I think it is past time that we stop letting the world walk on us and reaffirm our power.

Taranis
April 16th, 2003 2:40 pm

“Do you not understand that this man has been building weapons of mass destruction for over 10 years?”

Where are they? No one has found any yet.

“I think it is past time that we stop letting the world walk on us and reaffirm our power.”

That’s a nice sentiment, but when you’re the world’s police force, that’s what happens. Also, let’s not forget that our national and military leaders insist that this is a liberation and not occupation, or in other words, an action not of aggression but of compassion.

While you are entitled to your opinion, it may be wise to at least base that opinion on facts and reality. It might also make sense to think farther ahead than the next 3 weeks or one year. Try thinking about the repurcussions of this action in 10 years when the money made on the oil in Iraq puts real WMD in the hands of an Iraqi leader whose son died in this war.