In a poll conducted by D3 Systems for the BBC, ABC News, ARD German TV and USA Today, more than 2,000 people were questioned in more than 450 neighbourhoods and villages across all 18 provinces of Iraq between 25 February and 5 March 2007:
69% of Iraqis think that the occupation by the US and the UK is making things worse.
77% of Iraqis think that the US occupation is having a negative effect compared to 12% who think the occupation is having a positive effect. (That’s about 7 to 1 PURPLE THUMBS DOWN by my calculations.)
A majority (51%) actually approves of attacks on coalition forces.
Wow. That is not insurgency talking. That is revolt against an armed occupying force.
Harry Reid is right and has been right. We can never win this war militarily, nor should we continue to try. What we should do is get the hell out of there as fast as we can and beg the Iraqis to forgive us for our trespasses (as the saying goes.)
But of course we are not doing that. This is what we are doing:
4,000 U.S. soldiers to Baghdad for crackdown.
BAGHDAD - Nearly 4,000 American soldiers pour into Baghdad this week, the fourth of five brigades being sent to strengthen an 11-week-old crackdown aimed at quelling sectarian violence, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
So why do we have to bring in another 4000 American troops to secure Bagdad? Because everybody on all sides seems to be against the occupation, that’s why. You can call it Operation Iraqi Freedom, a Surge for Democracy. Whatever-- It is still nothing short of brute martial law imposed on a civilian population in a country where we are not welcome. As our brave men and women are learning every day as the Bush-McCain-Lieberman surge drags on, it is pretty difficult to gain control of a city in which most of the residents hate your guts.
So what exactly are we doing? Are we “clearing the area of insurgents?” What a terrible, sick joke. They are all insurgents—insurgents, revolutionaries, freedom-fighters, patriots--call them whatever you want to call them. But you can’t call them wrong to continue resisting our unlawful and murderous occupation of their country. They don’t want us there!
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The actual Pogo quote was: we have met the enemy and he is us....referring to all the litter man leaves on the landscape.
No citizenry anywhere in history has enjoyed an occupation. When asked about 'occupation', the citizens of Iraq react like anyone else. The questions asked in this anti-Bush, anti-Iraq war poll were skewed to produce the desired outcome. An earlier poll, that I have quoted, showed a much different outcome.
BBC, ABC News, ARD German TV and USA Today have all editorialized non-stop and unabated about their opposition to the Iraq war. What other result did you expect from their 'poll?'
Terrorists are making life in Iraq miserable. They are killing innocents, not the U.S. or the United Kingdom. Liberals have to stop defending the terrorists and blaming America. Liberals will twist any data and manipulate any outcome to try to degrade the U.S.
Killing innocents? You're killing me!
Liberals will twist any data and manipulate any outcome to try to degrade the U.S. Karl Rove, is that you?
No day is complete without my abjectly denigrating the land of the free and the home of the brave. I start my mornings with a big bowl of "Blame America First"--it's sweet corn taste is a guilty pleasure!
BBC, ABC News, ARD German TV and USA Today have all editorialized non-stop and unabated about their opposition to the Iraq war. So, let's keep killing brown people in a country whose only value to us is its oil reserves. At least our fossil fuel billionaires will be grinning from ear to ear.
As Senator Webb said (paraphrased): The war was won four years ago. What needs to end is the occupation. I suggest that if you support the war in Iraq, by all means go there and fight for the Sunnis' right to be dominated by the Shiites, or vice versa--and don't forget the Kurds. What other point to this war is there?
Fuckin' retards want more Americans to die for our addled dauphin. I heartily endorse an end to our involvement. And try, try, try to imagine that your country has been occupied by a foreign army (imagine America during the Civil War--if we were invaded by Poland, who assured us they were there merely to facilitate Democracy, even while they ignored most of the country while they protected the factories in the North and the Cotton fields in the South). Because we were at war with ourselves would we then capitulate to the invaders' occupation?
If half a trillion of our dollars haven't purchased Iraq then why do we pretend to own it? It's not our country. The Sunni/Shiite conflict is not our conflict. If Christians insinuate themeselves into this internecine war any further we are going to incite global fucking warfare among the various faith-based traditions. If that's what you want, then have at it. Maybe Jesus will fall out of the sky in a giant johnny jump up and pigs will shit quarters. As if.
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I don't blame America
I blame George Bush and the Republicans. In fact, I'd go further and say that, by their actions, GWB and the Republicans are not really Americans at all, they are totalitarian assholes working to bring about the end of America. Their ideal nation would be Amerika. It might look like America to the uninformed, but those of who live here, we'd know.
We do know.
Jake