--- Colin Britto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As an American citizen, I fail to understand why the > author does not realise that the reason the interim > Iraqi govt has "asked the US troops to stay on" is > because (drum roll) THEY HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE.... > > And with all the American troops there, there are > still tens of casualties PER DAY...
Mario replies: There were tens of casualties per day before Saddam was deposed and those were Shia (60%) and Kurds (20%) being killed by Sunni Baathists (less than 20%), a minority community, for disagreeing with Saddam. Now the same people are being killed by the same Sunnis and their "foreign" supporters in an attempt to deny them freedom and democracy. And people like Colin support the killers, at least tacitly and by providing them with moral support on public forums like Goanet. I find it ironic that Colin lives in a free country but vehemently opposes freedom for the Iraqis. Yes the interim government in Iraq has no choice as yet, because they were the people who were brutalized by Saddam for over 30 years and are only now learning how to run a country. Why don't you know all this, Colin? Or are you callous to the real facts in Iraq? Colin writes: > The author keeps hoping for WMD's to be found in Iraq, despite all the official reports of nothing there - Talk is cheap. Why does the author not hop on a plane and commence the search himself? Age should not be a factor - heck, they're re-enlisting 55 year olds here. > Mario replies: This seems to be the last puerile resort of many anti-Iraq-liberation Americans like Colin. It sounds cute but it doesn't answer the question of what THEY think happened to the WMDs. I don't need to hop on a plane and look for the WMDs because I support the removal of Saddam for reasons other reasons than the WMDs, for example, his defiance of 17 UN resolutions over 12 years, his looting of the oil-for-food program, and his psychotic brutality. None of this seems to matter to people like Colin.
