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[quote="Sgt Stryker":94ebf]while the deaths of our men are really sad, I cannot blame the average Iraqi for standing by and doing nothing. The postwar planning looks like it was done by a bunch of chimpanzees, not American style at all. The Iraqis were promised so much, but that's all it is promises. Our military stood by and let looters run rampant, we still don't have electricity restored, there are way too many people out of work, how can the average Iraqi be loyal to us in this situation?

this article says it all, straight from the general's mouth

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the generals remarks at the end of the article basicly sum up whats going on in iraq

"The international war on terrorism began to be fought in Iraq,'' he said, with anti-American fighters coming in from other countries. "

``That's not all bad,'' Garner said. ``Bring 'em all in there, we'll kill 'em there.''

Yes I will agree things in iraq are not yet perfect and yes I do believe we didnt go in iraq with a plan for the "post war" aftermath but based on the number of troops we have in iraq (which i agree is far to few) we are making remarkable strides in bringing a better life to the iraqi people, in most parts of iraq things are better then they were when sadam was in power and there are few incidents of terror attacks, the only hotzones are in the "sunni triangle" where sunni muslims, baathist, fedayeen, other sadam loyalist and foreign volunteers are always causing shit and impeding the rebuilding efforts there. I recomend you stop using cnn as your news provider, they have a huge liberal bias....to get the full picture on the war in iraq go to http://www.military.com or http://www.strategypage.com even http://www.foxnews.com does a more balanced and accurate job in presenting us with the facts as to whats actually going on in iraq.