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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Investor Clouseau who wrote (23914)	9/17/2003 12:11:31 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

IC, absolutely not. That the innocent Iraqis were waiting with open arms for the US is pure propaganda. Else we would not have 1 soldier a day on an average die there. Those folks who are launching rocket propelled grenades surely do have the support of the common Iraqi. The Iraqis may have hated Saddam but surely they hate the US more than they hated Saddam. Let us not forget that for the majority of the Iraqis who did not speak out against Saddam, he gave them Arab pride. Saddam was brutal to those who opposed him, but he also pampered those who supported him. You talk about his gassing the Kurds. While I myself am outraged by genocide, the Kurds are caught in the middle in that even the Turks (their northern neighbor and US ally) do not like the Kurds. And who is to say, given the violent history of the Ottoman empire, that the Turks would not have treated the Kurds similarly. I would not call Saddam a good man, but certainly he is not to be given that importance that President Bush should have considered him before the war on terror. Misplaced priority and failure to perform.