Quote Originally Posted by medicinal
I'd feel a hell of a lot better if they stopped the slaughter of our young men and women and let the Iraqis fight their own battles.]
So after invading their nation, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of their people, and destabalizating their country, it's now fair to just pull out and "let the Iraqis fight their own battles"? Sorry, but under Saddam there was order and law and none of this insurgent crap would have been tolerated. America went in and gave criminals and murderer's the run of the place, now you want to give them full run of the place? It's easy to say "let them fight among themselves", but it's America's intervention that caused the fighting in the first place, and now it's America's responsibility to fulfill their promise to the Iraqi people. They already did a great job pissing off the middle east the first time they told the Iraqi's to rise up against Saddam with impending liberation, then left them high and dry to be killed/tortured/imprisoned when it didn't happen. You can't just destabalize the whole region now and say "well, it's your mess now".
mrdevious Reviewed by mrdevious on . Bushs' great Iraq Plan Divide and Rule: Bush's Doomed Plan for Baghdad By Robert Fisk, The Independent. Posted April 12, 2007. Revealed: a new counter-insurgency strategy to carve up the city into sealed areas. The tactic failed in Vietnam. So what chance does it have in Iraq? Faced with an ever-more ruthless insurgency in Baghdad -- despite President George Bush's "surge" in troops -- US forces in the city are now planning a massive and highly controversial counter-insurgency operation that will seal off vast Rating: 5