Quote Originally Posted by MaryLane
This is an ironic topic, from a certain point of view. When I was in the UK in 2005, I had the opportunity to have dinner and several bottles of wine with the daughter-in-law of the then interim Iraqi prime minister. You know what she said? She felt it was unfair how the US media reports what is going on in Iraq, and that in her experience the majority of the people feel they are and will be better off now that Saddam has been removed. She said regardless of the why behind our presence there, the end result, which was the removal of Saddam, has been positive and has benefitted Iraq more than it has hurt it.
This all fine and good. But the fact is that Iraq is ungovernable by Westerners and will not be controlled by Westerners.

So, we got rid of Sadaam - now it's time to get our asses out and turn the military operations over to other Arabs. This really isn't such a hard concept to understand and it is the only solution that has been historically proven to work.

Another thing we should do is make the Iraqi gov't agree to reimburse us for every penny we spend on their miserable country. If this war were costing the Iraqis A billion dollars a week they'd be a whole lot more motivated to solve their problems.

JMO

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