Thursday, December 01, 2005

Riverbend's Average Iraqi Reaction to Bush's "Iraq Victory Spew"

BaghdadBurning: "... a repetition of the nonsense he’s been spewing for 2 & a half yrs now. Don’t Americans get tired of hearing the same thing? It’s unbelievable that he’s refused to set a timetable for w/drawal (is he having another "Bring it on" moment?). It’s almost as if someone is paying him to intentionally sabotage US foreign policy. W/ every speech he seems to sink himself deeper into the mire. A timetable for complete w/ drawal of American forces would be a positive step- it would give Iraqis hope that, eventually, sovereignty will return to Iraq. As it is, people fear the Americans will be here for the next 20 yrs (unless they are bombed and attacked out of the country). Although many Iraqis support armed resistance in theory, I think that the average Iraqi simply wants to see them go back home in 1 piece. We feel sorry for them and esp sorry for their families at times. There are moments when you forget the personal affronts- the raids, checkpoints, fear of bombing, detentions, etc. and you can see thru it all to the actual person behind the weapons and body armor. On the other hand, you never forget that it's a foreign occupation and will meet with resistance like all foreign occupations. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice can all swear that US troops will not pull out of the country no matter how many casualties they sustain, but history has proven otherwise…
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