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Why would they follow us here? (4.50 / 2) (#59)
by peacrevol on Wed May 16, 2007 at 10:36:38 AM EST
You all remember, I'm sure, your history classes in high school. We once had a war that left part of our country with minimal leadership. It was called the civil war. Afterwords we went through a period called reconstruction, remember. That's where Iraq is now. Except they didnt have a civil war - their military got their a$$es handed to them by the US military. Now, they have a bunch of people in charge that dont know how to run a government. And what they have is a bunch of terrorists, not unlike the terrorists of the south after the American civil war. For example, the KKK at the time was targeting free slaves and those who simpathized with them. In the same way, insurgents are targeting anyone who is trying to keep them from power. Perhaps its time for us to tell the Iraqi govt and citizens to grow a pair and get with the program. We have to let them take control of their govt now or they never will.

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by jimakaPPJ on Wed May 16, 2007 at 11:39:20 AM EST
Not bad, but we didn't have three or four factions, plus outside intervention, fighting each other during the reconstruction period.

The KKK was a huge problem, but its focus was on blacks and what the KKK saw as carpetbaggers who had moved to the South. It was never a threat to the Federal government, and the functions of the federal government.

The question of when the Iraqis will become able to self govern, I don't know. I do know that as long as the Demos are demanding we put a time table in place the various terrorist groups will just hang around until we leave.

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