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

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story. ... 1126PPC101



I honestly thought at the beginning of the war that we could build a democratic government in a sea of fundamentalism, and show the Arabs the way to prosperity.
However thanks to Dumbsfeld and the idiots in Washington, we are now likely to fail because we have not captured the hearts of Iraqis fast enough.