more chilling still
Despite Positives, More Negatives Are Predicted
Two things bother me here. First, these words from a member of the governing council:
Theattacks "will continue, Mr. Chalabi added, until Americans turn responsibility for security over to the Iraqis.
'The Americans, their methods, their operations, their procedures, are singularly unsuited to deal with this kind of problem,' he said.
So whatdoes that mean? Anyone smell abloodbath in the making? We walk out and let the people we put in power use methods that will work - the same methods Saddam Hussein used?
Ok, the second thing that bothered me was these words from Rumsfeld:
"There are criminals in that country who will do things for money," he said on "Fox News Sunday."
"There are foreign terrorists," he said, who have "come back in from Iran and are trying to kill people. And there are the remnants of the Baathist regime. And they want to take that country back and they're not going to."
Notice that we are not fighting anyone who might have a legitimate grievance. Say, someone whose child was one of the half million or so who died because of the US backed sanctions. Or maybe someone who lost a father or btoher or daughter in the etiher of our wars with Iraq or the decade of bombing. Or maybe a Shiite Muslim who finds Western culture corrupt and simply wants us out of their lives. Or perhaps a Shiite who believed the first George Bush when he ecnouraged them to rebel, then lost friends and family because we left them hanging in the wind, battling Saddam Hussein alone? Bottom line - it's the old gameof demonizing the enemy. We're the good guys, they're the bad guys. You don;t have to know anything more.
