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2003-02-22 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2003-02-22 08:25 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, you don't want to screw all the Sunnis, just the Ba'athist. You don't want to create another oppressed people when you are done, because you know damn good and well, it will be the US they blame, not the Kurds nor the Shias. You don't want to play the same game with the roles reversed. You want a new game altogether.

Posted by Ben 2003-02-22 02:48:18|| 2003-02-22 02:48:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Anybody can come out, as long as they're unarmed;
Good idea and I bet it was considered by the military planners. Problem is, Sammy will not allow it. His intention will be to inflict as many civilian casualties as possible. Wouldn't be surprised if he told his most loyal devotees to open up on the civies at some point. After all, you can always find traitors, conspirators, and collaborators amongst the people when you're sick in the head.
Let's hope he pulls an Adolf early on.

Posted by RW 2003-02-22 12:27:42|| 2003-02-22 12:27:42|| Front Page Top

#3 A big problem is the vast number of people who have worked for Saddam over the last two decades. Probably 5 million Iraqis have taken money from the security police or fingered dissenters or something of that nature. Probably most of these people did it under duress. About 50,000 - 500,000 have actually participated in torture, murder, rape crimes. I will take at least two years of American supervised judicial procedings to sort this out.

Posted by mhw 2003-02-22 21:21:50|| 2003-02-22 21:21:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Thue Us will probably not occupy Iraq alone but what matters is the future of Iraq. The only real chance for democratic reform would be to allow Turkey to administer the foreign affairs, and defense policies, with other policies reserved to the Iraqis. This would safeguard Iraq from Iranian ambitions and allow the only democratic moslem nation in the world to reform the mess that is Iraq. Americans will only mess up the political structure of the nation, witness the American decision to free all communists in Germany and Japan following WWII.

Posted by TJ Jackson 2003-02-22 23:40:42|| 2003-02-22 23:40:42|| Front Page Top

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