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Topic: Iraqi's are to blame for their own demise - says US
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Stargazer
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posted 29 November 2006 03:42 AM
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From troops on the ground to members of Congress, Americans increasingly blame the continuing violence and destruction in Iraq on the people most affected by it: the Iraqis.Even Democrats who have criticized the Bush administration's conduct of the occupation say the people and government of Iraq are not doing enough to rebuild their society. The White House is putting pressure on the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group have debated how much to blame Iraqis for not performing civic duties.
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"We should put the responsibility for Iraq's future squarely where it belongs -- on the Iraqis," began Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), the committee's next chairman. "We cannot save the Iraqis from themselves." He has advocated announcing that U.S. troops are going to withdraw as a way of pressuring Iraqi politicians to find compromises.Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) followed by noting: "People in South Carolina come up to me in increasing numbers and suggest that no matter what we do in Iraq, the Iraqis are incapable of solving their own problems through the political process and will resort to violence, and we need to get the hell out of there." "We all want them to succeed," agreed Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.). "We all want them to be able to stabilize their country with the assistance that we've provided them." But, he added, "too often they seem unable or unwilling to do that."
Yep, they have sunk even lower than a gutter snake. They come in, bomb, maim and kill a whole bunch of people who did absolutely nothing to them; destroy their entire infrastructure and then blame the victims! How classy. Disgusting... Washington Post
From: Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. | Registered: Jun 2004
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remind
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posted 29 November 2006 08:41 AM
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Originally posted by Alberta Guy:
I was referring to the practice of Iraqi Militias fighting with each other.
This offers little or no clarity of what you meant by the former comment about not helpful, and now this one. For example: Do they have a habit of fighting one another? If, they are fighting one another, who is that they are fighting, the so called insurrgents? Or is it Sunnis and Shias protecting their territory from one another, or is it their fighting against US Coalition troops who head the different militias? And helpful to whom; those in the west, the USA government, their own people, or just whom? [ 29 November 2006: Message edited by: remind ]
From: "watching the tide roll away" | Registered: Jun 2004
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