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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan B. who wrote (63033)	6/13/2005 1:36:44 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Looks like the flag-wavers are chickening out. Nothing like a little dose of reality to wake up the idiots... at least some of them. Six in 10 Americans say they think the United States should withdraw some or all of its troops from Iraq — the highest number who have said that in the Gallup poll. About three in 10 want the U.S. to withdraw all troops now and about three in 10 said some troops should be withdrawn now. A majority, 56 percent, said they would be upset if more troops are sent to Iraq, according to the poll released Monday. Two-thirds in an ABC-Washington Post poll, also taken in early June, say they think the United States has gotten bogged down in the war in Iraq. Almost six in 10 in both polls said the war was not worth fighting. The Gallup poll of 1,003 adults was taken June 6-8 and the ABC-Post poll of 1,002 adults was taken June 2-5. Each poll had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

To: Dan B. who wrote (63033)	6/13/2005 6:50:38 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

I think that it's difficult to tell who's doing the most harm in Iraq. That's why I marvel at folks like you that can divine this information. What I can glean from the sparse information available about the war in Iraq is this. Sunni insurgents have made a practice of hitting Shia strongholds. That usually means the Shia that are forming the new government and who are becoming the Iraqi army and police. Also Zarqawi likes to hit the same simply because they are in alliance with the US troops. So the two groups which do not like each other tolerate one another since they are interested in the same targets, albeit for different reasons. The sweep in Baghdad netted mostly Iraqis...probably Sunnis. More than 95% of them were Sunni. How you can characterize that foreign fighters are causing much of the damage is beyond my ability to know. What I'd say is that most likely the insurgents, foreign and domestic, are probably affecting the situation in Iraq according to and proportional to their strength in number. Orca