Before the invasion of Iraq, I pointed out in different ways and times the following,
Iraq consist of 80% women and children under 16 years old. This as a result of the Iraq and Iran war, supported by US. The first Gulf war and the blockade of food and medical supply. It is true that there are nearly no family or circle of friends who did not have a member killed in the Iran war or by the oppressive regime. It is also true that the same can be said about the Americans and their policies. I claimed that US would not be hailed as a liberator and that the "winning of hearts and minds" was a very naive proposition. Today we can see this and the Americans have killed a larger number of Fathers, Brothers, Friends and even some collateral damages on the female side of the population. The started with a childish proudness of the terror tactics "shock and awe" and continued with "trigger happiness". It is non who claims any large successes in "winning hearts and minds", instead we have seen some extremely stupid events in the prison system. Now I only like to point out some severe logical failures in the reporting and propaganda from Iraq. A US combat soldier on the ground in Iraq, is depending of 5 to 10 other military support personal to "fight, eat, shit and move". This means that of the US force of around 130,000, it is only around 30,000 that really comes in contact with Iraqi people and combat situations. That is one thousands of a percent, compared with the Iraqi population. It is almost impossible to maintain any kind security and to live up to their obligations according to the Geneva convention, as an occupying force. This is also why the current "hand over of sovereignty" is rushed through, as if US after that would no longer have any legal responsibilities and a moral victory. According to the "coalition" the resistance in Iraq, are foreign terrorists, local terrorists, insurgents and plain criminals. If we look at the numbers, the US heroes are killing them with their technical superiority (night scopes etc.) in relations higher than 1 American to 15 insurgents. Most combats are therefor night combats, where US search and kill insurgents. It is also a very high number of innocent collateral damage (bystanders). The propaganda want us to belive that these insurgents pops up during night, like targets on a shooting range and they come almost from nowhere and seems to exists in unlimited numbers. The fact is that those insurgents also "fight, eat, shit and move". They must have support of 5 to 10 members of the population to do so. Making some numbers out of it, there must be insurgents and supporters in the range of 1,500,000 people, or a very large part of the Iraqi able population, that probably are around 5,000,000 men. I might be off both up and down, but not totally wrong in the principle. The question is how US will win this, without putting maybe 10 times more troops on the ground and with much ruthless behavior. Selected "sovereign government", have little chance to survive without massive US support and if the Iraqis do not get the opportunity to really free elections, it will continue to go on. Really free elections will probably lead to a Iran style Muslim scenario and that is not acceptable for the US, because this means that "Bin Laden" won. There are also large risks for collapse and civil war and a large scale escalation in the region. The situation is very dangerous and in no way out of the woods yet. It does not look good for US energy supplies and price levels, because it could be severe impacts on the US economy. My "survival kit" advice in this situation is, sell your SUV when you can and get a small energy efficient diesel car, prepared for biodiesel. Hakan ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
