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Thread #97835   Message #1934724
Posted By: TIA
12-Jan-07 - 05:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Maliki doesn't want more U.S. troops
Subject: RE: BS: Maliki doesn't want more U.S. troops
"In Iraq at present do you believe that MNF troops are still fighting the war that began in March 2003?"

    No.
    We went to war ostensibly to defeat Saddam's military.
    Mission Accomplished.
    We are still there.
    Clearly something else is going on.

"Who do you believe that the MNF troops are currently fighting?"

    Iraqis (Sunni and Shia) who just want the foreign invaders gone.

    Saddam supporters (largely Sunni) who want the foreigners gone and are afraid of vengeful Shia rule.

    Shia who want the foreigners gone and see them as a roadblock to their desired vengeful rule.

    Regular folks whose loved ones (combatant or non-combatant) have been killed in this war, and have nothing left to live for or lose.

    Miscellaneous gangs who may be shooting at Americans, or simply at each other, but hit Americans, so we gotta fight them too.

      A small number (by the Pentagon's own estimates) of international jihadists who now have no need to sneak into relatively secure foreign countries to kill Americans since we fly them gratis straight to the meat grinder.

    May have missed some but that's a pretty good start at the list dontcha think?

"What other conflicts are ongoing in Iraq?"

    Struggles for power and money between Sunni and Shia, between rival clans, between rival gangs, between rival clerics, between rival corrupt government officials, and between native Iraqis and the foreign jihadists. Again, did I miss any? (Probably).






And your point in posing these questions to me......?