President Bush

[trillobyite]

There's no point arguing over the reasons of entering Iraq in the first place. It was clearly a major mess-up, but what the USA has to focus on now is either getting out or stabilizing the country. Unfortunately it seems like both are almost impossible.

Iraq is not some country under siege and occupation by evil Americans, and I get really pissed when that is said. The tensions existed under Saddam, but with his regime toppled, the hatreds that exist between Shiites and Sunnis and Kurds are exploding. Whether you believe an opressive dictatorship which commits genocide against its own people is better than a nightmarish chaos in which each side slaughters the other is up to you. But both suck, and right now it is in the state of the latter. The US is the only force trying to bring peace, rather than conflict, to the region.

Most of the civilians, in fact, almost all, dead in Iraq are killed by Iraqis themselves, by car-bombs, by the blowing up of funerals, by the blowing up of rescue workers at blown up funerals, by blowing up restaurants, building fences around communities of certain ethnicities..yadayadayada. And nations like Iran, which were previously hateful of countries like Iraq (100,000 dead in Iraq-Iran war) see this oppurtunity as ripe for exploitation; they send arms and men to whatever side they support regularly, and then blame others for the problems caused there.

And the worst, is that 70% of Iraqis, by the polls think it is too early for the US to leave. In another poll, 70% of Iraqis feel it is justified to attack US soldiers. Now you tell me how the hell to interpret that.

WeissPrailine, Bin Laden is the leader of Al Qaeda, his associates and the hijackers were members too.