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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elroy who wrote (233555)5/19/2005 9:17:45 AM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (3) of 1571800
 
>Notice how they haven't broken into any prisons to free prisoners, overtaken any city governments, etc.

For one thing, most of the cities don't seem to have governments to speak of at the moment -- there's an awful lot of chaos. Second, Saddam had already freed everyone from the prisons right before the war, so most of the prisoners that are in prisons right now in Iraq are likely in American prisons, which our troops are guarding.

>You are confusing the ability to plant a roadside bomb with the ability to take over a population. They can terrorize, but they can't lead.

That's not for lack of numbers and support -- it's for lack of unity. There are several factions to the insurgency. Besides, that's not entirely true, either. Does the name Moqtada al-Sadr ring a bell? He's becoming a political force.

>When there are militias fighting militias, you will be correct. All you have now are guerilla thugs killing innocent people. That's not civil war.

I agree that it's not civil war -- yet. But they're on that path. I don't think it will become an actual civil war until we leave.

>This is the goal of the coalition and 99% of Iraqis, why do you seem to think it cannot be accomplished?

If I were a gambling man, I'd wager that half of the Iraqis support the insurgents more than they support the U.S..

One thing is for sure -- the insurgency is not getting weaker.

-Z
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