And, while you're thinking about it, where were the tough, willing to die fighting-Iraqis for the last 35 years? Or, put another way, why is that they hate our presence enough to die fighting against the best equipped and best trained army in the world while they generally passively accepted what you claim was the much worse rule of Saddam Hussein?
They didn't passively accept squat under Saddam Hussein. If they had, he wouldn't have had to massacre 300,000 people + and dump them in mass graves. I don't CLAIM Saddam Hussein's rule was much worse - it WAS much worse. The Iraqis who are dying today may blame the Americans for not keeping order, but they KNOW, because they are there, that the Americans, that they are dying at the hands of other Iraqis, very often at the same hands that killed them under Saddam, who are now in the Sunni insurgency. |
