do not get the airtime here (in the States) are those of the "normal" (your
word) Iraqis who are dragged from their homes and killed in the streets for
"aiding" the US. Things that were done by Saddam's forces while he was in
power are still being done, only now by the insurgent types (who are by and
large the same folks). Still, we do see some resistance. There were reports
that the residents of Najaf took to the streets to tell Muqtada al Sadr to
get the hell out of dodge.
The normal Iraqis live in daily fear. They fear being an inadvertent
casualty of the continued unrest. They fear being murdered by their own
countrymen for not rising up against the occupation. They fear that the
occupation will not end. They fear the return of the Ba'ath party and its
attendant rule by force. Perhaps the most important, they fear what each day
will bring. To expect that they will rise up against the cowards that are Al
Qaeda and the insurgents is not realistic. We supposedly went there to free
them, to save them from a tyrant. Now rather than fearing the tyrant that
they know, they fear the many that they perhaps do not.
We cannot sit here, thousands of miles from the situation, and judge people
for their actions. We are not in the battle zone. Hell, I don't even know
what I am saying now, I just know that this whole thing sucks.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:54 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Who are the animals now?
If Al Queda is
such a thorny issue with "normal" Islamists, how come they havent railed
against the group and taken matters into their own hands? If they are such
an affront to Islam, why are they still around, with the billions of
Islamists around the world?
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