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Originally Posted by Machette
I really do admire your position Colonel, I really do. But why don't you inform me among many others on this fourm about some good news from Iraq. None of that "the iraq people are free from Saddam insane" stuff either..because I bet if you went into baghdad or any other major city and even some villages they would say they "want electricity, water, security" Iraq was controlled by a strong arm dictator for years and he knew how to control the masses, by fear. How is America going to control Iraq? Everyday I open the newspaper and read news on the internet I see constant bombings, kidnappings, ransoms...what good have you brought these poor people?
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No problem. But this will take awhile and my ADD is kicking in so I proabably won't get to everything.
First, the reason that you are reading it in the paper is because the press is now taking an interest. If they had taken an interest before we were there you would realise that the number of kidnappings, bombings, deaths etc. are far less now than they were when Saddam (and don't forget his sons) was in his heyday. The simple explanation of "what good have you brought these people" is that now a handful are dying (mostly at the hands of muslims from other countries) versus the half million or more under Saddam.
Regardless of what Saddam was doing to his own people I believe that he was a threat to the US and the world. If you don't believe that ask the folks in Kawait. Does being a bad guy give us the right to attack him? No. But he was given several ultimatums by the UN and he ignored them. He was even told "if you don't coorperate we will attack" in a resolution passed by the UN. He did not cooperate.
As for "the good news" from Iraq. The war is over. We won. IMHO what is going on now is not war, but terrorist acts by folks that don't want the Iraqi people to have the freedom to govern themselves. And the real good news is that the Iraqi people want us there and do not need to be controlled by America. They will control themselves as they set up their own government. Heck, it took these USofA years to set up a government that worked.
I'm sure that nothing Stackem or I say will convince any of you youngsters that there is anything in this world worth fighting for. But in our group of guys that play online together we have several retired vets, we have several active military guys, we have a grandma that has a nephew in Iraq, and we even had a retired guy sign on with a firm to go and guard the palace in Afghanistan for a year or so. The stories that these guys tell of what is happening over there and the letters that they receive from friends and relatives, are 100% positive about progress being made, 100% positive about the relationship that the military has with the locals and 100% positive in their commitment to their mission. Are there going to be a few guys that are not happy? Sure. Is the press going to harp on these few negative, unhappy souls instead of the overwhelming number of happy, motivated soldiers? You can bet your life on it.
More later. I have to save the little strength left in my fingers to snipe Judas in BF2.
BTW - Pyro, actually Hilter was a coward. That's why he murdered so many people.... and why he killed himself.