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To: Elroy who wrote (222029)	3/2/2007 7:28:28 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

But I still don't see how a 20 year old Iraqi killing 20 random Iraqis in the street is seen as eye for an eye justice for anything. I doubt if it's as random as it appears to be. The coalition invaded Iraq, so in order to get justice I will kill somebody/anybody to get my revenge? That's not a natural thought process. Someone else is probably guiding that naive car bomber and convincing him that that (killing as many Iraqi civilians as possible) is somehow eye for an eye justice. It makes no real sense from their or the coalition's perspective. There's more than one conflict going on in Iraq. [Which makes it far worse than Vietnam.] The majority of Iraqis think that targeting the US is justifiable and some Iraqis are targetting the US. Some Shia think that killing Sunnis/Baathists is justice for the reign of Saddam. Any Sunni will do. It's the Shia that are using the power drills, because Saddam drilled the head of a Shia cleric. The Iraq government can't provide law and order, so the militias provide it. You blow up my market, I'll blow up your market. My kids die, your kids will die. Throw in some faction that wants to hurry along the Muslim equivalent of the End of Days. I'd bet that once the US leaves Iraq, the Iraqis will turn on AQ. They're tolerated because they attack the US. Once the US leaves, the Iraqis will take their revenge on AQ for killing Iraqis. jttmab