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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (13474)4/8/2004 10:18:36 PM
From: American SpiritRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
We were safer with Saddam than what we have now. read:

"Sunni and Shi'a are now one hand,
together against the Americans," a
man on the street in the mostly Shi'a
slum of Shuala on the west side of
Baghdad told me, as we conversed in the
shadow of a burnt-out American
tank transporter. Those sentiments were
echoed at the local headquarters
of Moqtada al-Sadr's organization, which
had one day previously come
under assault from U.S. forces.

And, indeed, everyone in the area agreed
that when those forces were
driven from Shuala, it was done by Sunni
and Shi'a fighting together --
and by unorganized local inhabitants,
not al-Sadr's Mahdi Army.

* Maybe Howard Dean was right. But now we have no choice but to stay and fight. Thousands of Americans and allies will probably die as a result and we'll be nowhere near pacifying Iraq until Cheney-Bush are gone and tensions subside.
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