News Iraq: Civil War Result of Bush Regime

[omin]

Iraq is definitely a civil war, a fight against the US leading regime.

In sells, where a company rips off a customer, that customer tells ten people and those ten people tell ten people. So do the victimized civilians in Iraq when the Bush regime bombs come.

Bush blame the civilians by evidence of there deaths, but the Iraqi civilians know exactly where to put the cause, exactly where orders came from to launch the bombs: Bush regime war machine.

The indiscriminate killing going on Iraq just recently is killing Iraqi family members and friends. Each Iraqi close to the ones who are being killed are looking at those who have invaded without a pretext, because they are the ones who are doing the murdering. Hatred is spreading in Iraq because of Bush regimes murdering of civlians.

More and more civilians are picking up guns, more and more civilians pick up a rocket, more and more Arabs contemplate what they can do to help there brothers and sisters being terrorized by Bush regime. The enemy who has found acceptance among the fat, apathetic voters in American, who say they care, but put a murderer in office do not understand what pain they indirectly cause with there tax dollars and votes. They are victims of propoganda, led by a regime of anti-Semites, murdering the Semites, the Arabs day after day in the name of freedom.

The American leadership is making enemies in Arabia, not bringing peace. And those Arabs who stand behind this action are subject to the laws of nature, which Bush cannot rewrite: a betrayers death and ten enemy exponent rule. Any one who understands the golden rule can achieve such an intelligent perspective: If my county were invaded, anyone who cooperated with the murderers of my people, would be put to death. This is a human standard higher and truly is a fundamental to humanity.

Bush regime says they don't know who the insurgents are or they say the are Saddam loyalists. Because civilians are being murdered indiscriminately, civilians take up arms and go to war. Iraq is truly a civil war! Not a rebellion.

Get out American military, you will loose in the end! The longer you stay insures American civilians are put in harms way. No one allows the murder of their people to go unpushished.

 

[russ_watters]

Most of that post is rambling and incoherent. But to be clear: we know exactly who the "insurgents" are: they are, by and large, Al Queda (or Al Queda linked) terrorist groups imported during the war.

One nice thing about terrorists - its always clear who you are fighting because they are proud to be there and tell anyone who will listen (and Al Jazeera is always listening to terrorists).

 

[vanesch]

Al Queda (or Al Queda linked) terrorist groups imported during the war.

 

[schwarzchildradius]

My guess is that the long term strategic goal of the battle plan is to drive all Muslims throughout the world insane with rage so that they attack Americans. Then, there's justification to continue attacking sovereign nations and continue fighting war indefinitely.

Is this a good plan in the best interests of America and the Arab world?

 

[studentx]

I think the plan is for Iraqis one day to speak for themselves so they can shut everybody up.

 

[wasteofo2]

But to be clear: we know exactly who the "insurgents" are: they are, by and large, Al Queda (or Al Queda linked) terrorist groups imported during the war.

Excuse me?

Would you care to some way validate that? I've heard report after report from Iraqi, British and American journalists that the insurgents in Iraq are around 99% Iraqi's, and that most militias (such as Moqtada Al Sadr's), take great pride in their Iraqi nationality, and wouldn't allow foreigners to fight with them.

And also, Al Qaeda? Haven't Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld been bragging about how Al Qaeda's nearly destroyed and has no real organization anymore? Or hasn't this administration been that sucessful in destroying Al Qaeda afterall? Al Qaeda can't both be the main cause of the insurgency in Iraq and nearly defunct and in shambles, so which is it?

 

[PrudensOptimus]

Iraq is definitely a civil war, a fight against the US leading regime.

In sells, where a company rips off a customer, that customer tells ten people and those ten people tell ten people. So do the victimized civilians in Iraq when the Bush regime bombs come.

Bush blame the civilians by evidence of there deaths, but the Iraqi civilians know exactly where to put the cause, exactly where orders came from to launch the bombs: Bush regime war machine.

The indiscriminate killing going on Iraq just recently is killing Iraqi family members and friends. Each Iraqi close to the ones who are being killed are looking at those who have invaded without a pretext, because they are the ones who are doing the murdering. Hatred is spreading in Iraq because of Bush regimes murdering of civlians.

More and more civilians are picking up guns, more and more civilians pick up a rocket, more and more Arabs contemplate what they can do to help there brothers and sisters being terrorized by Bush regime. The enemy who has found acceptance among the fat, apathetic voters in American, who say they care, but put a murderer in office do not understand what pain they indirectly cause with there tax dollars and votes. They are victims of propoganda, led by a regime of anti-Semites, murdering the Semites, the Arabs day after day in the name of freedom.

The American leadership is making enemies in Arabia, not bringing peace. And those Arabs who stand behind this action are subject to the laws of nature, which Bush cannot rewrite: a betrayers death and ten enemy exponent rule. Any one who understands the golden rule can achieve such an intelligent perspective: If my county were invaded, anyone who cooperated with the murderers of my people, would be put to death. This is a human standard higher and truly is a fundamental to humanity.

Bush regime says they don't know who the insurgents are or they say the are Saddam loyalists. Because civilians are being murdered indiscriminately, civilians take up arms and go to war. Iraq is truly a civil war! Not a rebellion.

Get out American military, you will loose in the end! The longer you stay insures American civilians are put in harms way. No one allows the murder of their people to go unpushished.

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

Noteworthy post on the war of deception! I certainly agree that shall an adamant despot waging war against my country, I would certainly without a doubt pick up anything I can to drive them out. Especially if the war is causing civilian deaths. Then, it is no longer a war, rather a covert pogrom, slowly and steady, just like the one in Iraq right now.

Is Bush intentionally waging this covert pogrom, or is he doing what he said he is doing,... just protecting the world from mass weapons of destruction... or of deception?

 

[russ_watters]

Excuse me?

Would you care to some way validate that?

Certainly. You do know who we're fighting in Falluja, right?

Jeez, where do you people get your information from? It seems I'm having to spoonfeed the most basic things to the forum today.

Battle for Fallujah opens new phase in Iraq war

...foreign insurgents, most prominently Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his followers. Zarqawi, who has ties to Osama bin Laden, has claimed responsibility for many of the kidnappings and beheadings of foreigners. Iraqis have no natural allegiance to him. Destroying his Fallujah-based movement would alter the war's complexion. It would also aid the war on terror.

It doesn't get any more basic or specific than that, does it?

Iraqi TV reports confessions from foreign fighters

Of the 19 [interviewed (interrogated?) foreign fighters] — five Syrians, five Saudis, four Jordanians, two Egyptians, a Palestinian and two Iranians — most were said to have entered Iraq in October 2003, during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Frankly, guys, the crackpots aren't nearly as annoying to me as those who should know better but don't.

And also, Al Qaeda? Haven't Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld been bragging about how Al Qaeda's nearly destroyed and has no real organization anymore? Or hasn't this administration been that sucessful in destroying Al Qaeda afterall? Al Qaeda can't both be the main cause of the insurgency in Iraq and nearly defunct and in shambles, so which is it?

I said Al Queda or Al Queda linked. Frankly, I'm not sure how strong Al Zarqawi's ties are to Al Queda, but the point is, he's responsible for a large fraction of the fighting and the terrorism going on in Iraq right now. And a lot of the foreign-born fighters who flocked to Iraq in the hope of getting to kill Americans are now fighting for him.

But the point is, those terrorists aren't conducting operations in the US, they are conducting operations in Iraq. And I can assure you, the American soldiers fighting them in Falluja much prefer it that way.

 

[franznietzsche]

I think the plan is for Iraqis one day to speak for themselves so they can shut everybody up.

I don't think they know how to anymore, as this guy so desperately wants to showcase.

 

[Smurf]

But the point is, those terrorists aren't conducting operations in the US, they are conducting operations in Iraq. And I can assure you, the American soldiers fighting them in Falluja much prefer it that way.

Are you Implying that if you hadn't invaded Iraq they would have invaded you?

 

[franznietzsche]

Are you Implying that if you hadn't invaded Iraq they would have invaded you?

They would still hate us. They would still try to attack us. So yes. Have you forgotten 9/11? That was a terrorist style invasion.

 

[kat]

I don't think they know how to anymore, as this guy so desperately wants to showcase.

Yes well, it's not his right to speak for them either. Throughout history people who have freedom and were allowed to elect their leadership have been speaking for those who have not. They said the same things of Catholics...they said the same thing of spanish..they said the same thing of Afghani's. Iraqi's are not any different then you or I, each have right to the very BASIC human right of electing their own leadership through secret ballot based upon the most agreed upon document on the face of the Earth UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

If you will let me show you through a comparative exercise of the first five articles of the UN Declaration of HR, just to see how they sound if we were to apply the criteria of those who say that self-government in freedom "is the way we do things in the West, but might not be appropriate Iraqi's"

Article I

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Nota bene : This is for Westerners only, it may not be appropriate to coinsider Iraqis as endowed with reason and conscience, or born as free and as equal.

Article 2

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as
race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the
country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other
limitation of sovereignty.

However, this is the way we Westerners function and all the above might be inappropriate for Iraqis.

Article 3

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

This is the Western way of doing things. It might not be appropriate for Iraqis.

Article 4

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

This is the Westerners way, might be inappropriate for Iraqis.

Article 5

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

However, this is the way we Westerners function and the above might be inappropriate for Iraqis

...

Article 21

3. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures...

... with a caveat : democracy is how we do things in the West, but may not be appropriate elsewhere, in Iraq for example.

etc. etc.

Screw you racists.

 

[franznietzsche]

I wasn't implying that they shouldn't be ruled democratically.

I was not imlying that people of middle eastern descent are inferior.

I was stating that certain people in iraq do not want democracy. Furthermore it is in many ways, an alien idea to the middle east. Democracy is a product of western culture. All democracies that arose without being arbitrarily built by a foreign power arose in Europe and the US (that i can recall anyway). that's not to say that they are incapable of democracy, but it is not native to their cultural mindset (another example the russian politburo seeing nixon forced to resign. it was unimaginable to them that a head of state could be forced out of office. Democracy was beyond their cultural mindset as well.)

Mostly it was statement about the thread starter in aprticular, not the Iraqi people in general.

And at no point did i mean that the Iraqis do not deserve the same rights as Americans.

 

[wasteofo2]

Certainly. You do know who we're fighting in Falluja, right?

Al Zarqawi isn't an Iraqi, sure, but where is your validation that "by and large", the forces we're fighting are "Al Queda (or Al Queda linked) terrorist groups imported during the war"?

Jeez, where do you people get your information from? It seems I'm having to spoonfeed the most basic things to the forum today.

Battle for Fallujah opens new phase in Iraq war It doesn't get any more basic or specific than that, does it?

Again, Al Zarqawi is certainly a "foreign fighter", but where is your proof he's not just mobilizing and training disgruntled Iraqi's?

Iraqi TV reports confessions from foreign fighters

Ok, you've now proved that there were at least SEVERAL foreign fighters in Iraq, again, no proof of your claim that by and large, they're imported Al Qaeda associates.

Frankly, guys, the crackpots aren't nearly as annoying to me as those who should know better but don't. I said Al Queda or Al Queda linked.

You didn't say "Al Queda or Al Queda linked", you actually said "Al Queda (or Al Queda linked)", there's a subtle difference there. In your original text, the "or Al Queda linked" in parenthesis implied a lesser level of relevance, leaving Al Queda, outside the parenthesis as the most important. There's an implied difference when you put something in parenthesis, and then bold something, and you know that.

You have not presented any evidence that any majority of the insurgents in Iraq are Al Queda or Al Queda linked, only shown that one terrorist leader has ties to Bin Laden and shown of several foreign fighters.

Frankly, I'm not sure how strong Al Zarqawi's ties are to Al Queda, but the point is, he's responsible for a large fraction of the fighting and the terrorism going on in Iraq right now. And a lot of the foreign-born fighters who flocked to Iraq in the hope of getting to kill Americans are now fighting for him.

Fine, Al Zarqawi's a terrorist mastermind, just show me that he's not training Iraqi's, and that he has huge armies of imported Al Queda linked terrorists from other countries.

But the point is, those terrorists aren't conducting operations in the US, they are conducting operations in Iraq. And I can assure you, the American soldiers fighting them in Falluja much prefer it that way.

In your original post, the point seemed to be that the majority of the Iraqi insurgents are imported from Al Queda (or it's associates). Ya'll are pretty good at changing "the point" when you don't have evidence to support your original point.

Case in point:
We're invading Iraq because Saddam has wmd, for sure, no doubt at all, we know exactly where they are!
Saddam had no wmd.

The point was that he disobeyed the UN.
You disobeyed the UN too.

The point IS that he killed innocent civilians!
40,000 civilians have been killed since the war started, and no one seemed to care when he gassed the kurds in '88.

THE POINT, is that at least we're not fighting the terrorists at home!
The people in Iraq weren't fighting us before we invaded, now they are, we're making new terrorists faster than we're killing them.

IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER ANYMORE, because now that we're there, if you say anything bad about the war, you're demoralizing the troops, and they'll be sad that some people don't think they should be fighting and dying out there.

 

[kat]

I wasn't implying that they shouldn't be ruled democratically.

I was not imlying that people of middle eastern descent are inferior.

I was stating that certain people in iraq do not want democracy.

I understand clearly what you were saying and what you were replying to. I also understand clearly that even when blacks in this country were fighting slavery for freedom and later fighting for the right to participate in selecting their leaders that there were also those among them that were just as firmly objecting to the black men having those rights. Should those amongst them have been listened to and should we not have allowed them this very basic human right? I also understand clearly and have history to back me up when we speak of the fight for womens right to choose their leadership by secret ballot in this country that there were many women amongst them that fought against women having this basic human right. I also remember and have history to back me up that Spaniards, together with other Spanish speaking Americans weren't fit for democracy, that what they needed in view of how they were historically and culturally, was "a long stick and a harsh hand" (palo largo y mano dura).
There's no room for claims that democracy, self-government and the further respect for other human rights that come with democracies, are beyond anybody's reach. Universal human rights are just that UNIVERSAL, not for those who already have those rights to sanctimoniously have chosen they because they are arab are fit for this and not fit for that. No matter how pretty you want to paint the picture that saying otherwise might sit upon, it in the end..is racist. period.

 

[Smurf]

Am I the only one who just gets distraught when they read this?
Forgive me but I feel the need to quote Adbusters again

I've visited a lot of countries, I've lived in many places around the world, and believe me there arn't many places with as many lonely, alienated, paranoid, narcissistic, frightened and trapped people as the US. so why are US citizens so proud of their country? because they deny being its victim

 

[Smurf]

Kat, the problem isn't that we think Iraqi's are unfit for Democracy, at least not me, I think that democracy is unfit for the Iraqi's, or anyone in the world. It doesn't work anymore and we need to stop denying it and end this hundred years long experiment.

 

[kat]

Am I the only one who just gets distraught when they read this?
Forgive me but I feel the need to quote Adbusters again

Lol, distraught? You need to learn to separate opinion from fact and do a comparitive study on realities...1st world versus 3rd world..human rights in democracies to those in dictatorships.

 

[kat]

Kat, the problem isn't that we think Iraqi's are unfit for Democracy, at least not me, I think that democracy is unfit for the Iraqi's, or anyone in the world. It doesn't work anymore and we need to stop denying it and end this hundred years long experiment.

Lol, good then why don't you give up that right voluntarily by going to a non-democratic country. In the meantime, I'm standing by the most consensuated document on Earth which says that it is a BASIC Human right for everyone that "Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. " Then once we've given the Iraqi's that right...lets see whether or not they vote to give it up, eh? Not likely!
(and hundred years? Hello?)

 

[Smurf]

Lol, distraught? You need to learn to separate opinion from fact and do a comparitive study on realities...1st world versus 3rd world..human rights in democracies to those in dictatorships.

What are you saying Kat?
I don't get any of that.
(Democracies and Totaltarian Gov'ts are not opposite ends of a spectrum)

 

[franznietzsche]

I understand clearly what you were saying and what you were replying to. I also understand clearly that even when blacks in this country were fighting slavery for freedom and later fighting for the right to participate in selecting their leaders that there were also those among them that were just as firmly objecting to the black men having those rights. Should those amongst them have been listened to and should we not have allowed them this very basic human right? I also understand clearly and have history to back me up when we speak of the fight for womens right to choose their leadership by secret ballot in this country that there were many women amongst them that fought against women having this basic human right. I also remember and have history to back me up that Spaniards, together with other Spanish speaking Americans weren't fit for democracy, that what they needed in view of how they were historically and culturally, was "a long stick and a harsh hand" (palo largo y mano dura).
There's no room for claims that democracy, self-government and the further respect for other human rights that come with democracies, are beyond anybody's reach. Universal human rights are just that UNIVERSAL, not for those who already have those rights to sanctimoniously have chosen they because they are arab are fit for this and not fit for that. No matter how pretty you want to paint the picture that saying otherwise might sit upon, it in the end..is racist. period.

READ MY WORDS:

I NEVER SAID THAT BRINGING DEMOCRATIC RULE WAS NOT TO IRAQ WAS A PROPER GOAL. I NEVER SAID THAT THE CITIZENRY DO NOT DESERVE DEMOCRACY.

Please stop putting words in my mouth, and please stop claiming i am purporting things that i am not.

Its starting to piss me off.

 

[kat]

What are you saying Kat?
I don't get any of that.
(Democracies and Totaltarian Gov'ts are not opposite ends of a spectrum)

Your quote is a nice bit of OPINION...
as I said "You need to learn to separate opinion from fact
and if you do comparitive studies things will be clearer for you...
" and do a comparitive study on realities"
as in
1."...1st world versus 3rd world"..
and
2. "human rights in democracies to those in dictatorships."

 

[kat]

READ MY WORDS:

I NEVER SAID THAT BRINGING DEMOCRATIC RULE WAS NOT TO IRAQ WAS A PROPER GOAL. I NEVER SAID THAT THE CITIZENRY DO NOT DESERVE DEMOCRACY.

Please stop putting words in my mouth, and please stop claiming i am purporting things that i am not.

Its starting to piss me off.

Well, I am only quoting you...and replying to your statements and although your not clearly saying they don't deserve democracy..I haven't seen you say they do either. I only see you making statements at to why they might not grok it or that some apparently don't want it or why it might be so hard. I don't see anywhere you are agreeing that it is their basic human right and nobody has the place or the room to deny that to them. Is this what you're saying or not?

 

[Smurf]

Your quote is a nice bit of OPINION...
as I said "You need to learn to separate opinion from fact
and if you do comparitive studies things will be clearer for you...
" and do a comparitive study on realities"
as in
1."...1st world versus 3rd world"..
and
2. "human rights in democracies to those in dictatorships."

I've been studying them my whole life Kat, they're very broad topics, do you want to point out anything specific perhapse?

 

[franznietzsche]

Well, I am only quoting you...and replying to your statements and although your not clearly saying they don't deserve democracy..I haven't seen you say they do either. I only see you making statements at to why they might not grok it or that some apparently don't want it or why it might be so hard. I don't see anywhere you are agreeing that it is their basic human right and nobody has the place or the room to deny that to them. Is this what you're saying or not?

Basic human rights, being basic, tend to go without saying.

I like to limit my proclamation of the obivous.

...studying them my whole life...

From the cradle?

 

[russ_watters]

Are you Implying that if you hadn't invaded Iraq they would have invaded you?

I said nothing of the sort. What you just said is wrong/misleading on several levels. For instance, who are "they" (besides a trap...)? Reread what I wrote and try again.

 

[omin]

russ,

the problem with you reasoning is that you swallow the bush regime propoganda without using common-sense, golden rule logic which would bring to the real reasoing you need to use. Let me demostrate this to you.

you are now an Iraqi. a "smart bomb" drops on your, which is always 100% collateral damage. all people in Iraq are civilians, so 100% of the collateral damage is civilian deaths from those bombs. you look through the rubble and there is you beloved family or friend. you weep as you look up their mutilated body. behind you is an honorable Iraq that has been through this circumstance and knows what you are recoginizing as a human being as any human being in this circumstance. he looks you in the eye as he hand you the gun russ. you will do the right thing for your people won't you russ?

Iraqis are driven by defense, by the obvious mutiliation of their own people. All the Iraqis didn't leave and then were replaced by terrorists like your incorrect bush regime assuption asserts. they are mostly Iraqis defending. what are American militia driven by? first, they are low class, and less intelligent people turning to the military because of the conservative pay that the military offers compared to the capitalistic market that others can survive in but because of being less intelligent on average can't succeed in. They are also driven by the propoganda of war. Compared to the Iraq warrior who is driven by sadness of the death of family and friends, they are ignoramus and cowards hiding behind technological superiority, not spirit and natural defense intelligence which brings out the real warriors in these circumstances.

wake up to reality russ.

 

[studentx]

Ok, you've now proved that there were at least SEVERAL foreign fighters in Iraq, again, no proof of your claim that by and large, they're imported Al Qaeda associates.

He has proven that 90% of the insurgents are foreign fighters, just like that survey said there were 100.000 civilians killed. A small poll of a few individuals...

 

[russ_watters]

omin, that post is so garbled, as to be barely readable, but your basic assertion is that the people we are fighting are, by and large, Iraqi. Two words for you: PROVE IT. I have provided ample evidence that you are wrong.

 

[russ_watters]

Al Zarqawi isn't an Iraqi, sure, but where is your validation that "by and large", the forces we're fighting are "Al Queda (or Al Queda linked) terrorist groups imported during the war"?

Again, Al Zarqawi is certainly a "foreign fighter", but where is your proof he's not just mobilizing and training disgruntled Iraqi's?

If you read the articles I linked, there are two main points:

1. Al Zarqawi is enemy #1 in Iraq.
2. A significant (though I don't know the actual percentage - no one does) fraction of the actual fighters are foreign.

But the actual percentage is, in any case, irrelevant because of the implication (which I didn't state explicitly and aren't in the articles):
3. People fighting for Al Zarqawi are, by definition, foreign terrorists. They are de facto members of a foreign terrorist organization, fighting for/under the orders of foreign terrorists - just like John Walker Lindh. But also...
4. Iraqis not fighting for Al Zarqawi who attack Iraqi civilians are also terrorists - domestic terrorists.

 

[Smurf]

1.American soldiers who attack iraqi civilians are not terrorists too?



2.

Since Ramadan began last week, officials say daily attacks have increased 25 percent. They say only a small number are carried out by foreign terrorists like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but that those tend to be more deadly.

http://www.voanews.com/english/Iraqi-Insurgents-Number-As-Many-As-20000-say-US-Officials.cfm

Despite concerns about foreign fighters, American officials said the most significant challenge to the stabilization effort came from domestic Iraqi insurgents, and not from foreign terrorists, despite the violence of attacks organized or carried out by foreigners

According to data assembled by the military, about 80 percent of the violent attacks are criminal in nature - kidnappings for ransom or hijackings of convoys - with no political motivation. Of the other 20 percent, which include the most violent attacks on Iraqi security forces, the American military and international organizations, about four-fifths are attributed to domestic insurgents rather than to foreign terrorists.

http://www.fairandbalanced.us/docs/StoryID3263.htm

In the Summer of 2003, there were some reports that Syrians were often outnumbering locals in carrying out attacks in various locations including Fallujah, Ramadi, Baghdad, Baqubah, Balad, Tikrit and Mosul however, these reports were contradicted by reports in November indicating most fighters in most parts of Iraq have been native Iraqis.

An Insiders Look at the Iraqi Resistance

"They say these guys are flowing across [the border] and fomenting all this violence. We don't think so," said a senior military official in Baghdad. "What's the main threat? It's internal."

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0928-21.htm

 

[wasteofo2]

If you read the articles I linked, there are two main points:

1. Al Zarqawi is enemy #1 in Iraq.
2. A significant (though I don't know the actual percentage - no one does) fraction of the actual fighters are foreign.

But the actual percentage is, in any case, irrelevant because of the implication (which I didn't state explicitly and aren't in the articles):
3. People fighting for Al Zarqawi are, by definition, foreign terrorists. They are de facto members of a foreign terrorist organization, fighting for/under the orders of foreign terrorists - just like John Walker Lindh. But also...
4. Iraqis not fighting for Al Zarqawi who attack Iraqi civilians are also terrorists - domestic terrorists.

Have you noticed how ya'll always change what you mean?

You stated clearly in your original post we know exactly who the terrorists are. You stated they were by and large, Al Queda (or Al Queda linked) terrorists IMPORTED during the war.

Now, you've provided anecdotal evidence of a few, possibly a few dozen, foreign fighters being found in Iraq. You then decide to classify anyone fighting under Zarqawi as a foreign fighter, because their leader is foreign, and add in that domestic terrorists exist too.

It somehow doesn't seem to bother you that you go from saying we know exactly who they are, they are al queda terrorists (or al queda linked) that were imported from other nations, to later saying that anyone fighting under a foreigner is classified as a foreign fighter, plus, anyone fighting inside the country is a terrorist.

 

[Dayle Record]

There are a lot of very well informed, and highly intelligent people that feel exactly as Wasteofo or (however that is spelled), does.

On day one of the war, when the US public was being spoonfed just how cool it was going to be, it would be easy, we would be welcomed, I just laughed. Then I said, the Iraqi people will have to fight a war of liberation to get us back out of there. I have no illusions what this war is about, cowardice, Oil, imperialism, egalitarianism, bigotry, religious bigotry, cavalier disregard for law, and human rights, remorseless greed. Because of this a boatload of Americans are in a hell world, and a three boatloads of Iraqis have died. Before this is over we will have easily surpassed Saddam's murderous binges.

Bechtel, Halliburton, Kellogg Brown And Root, Mercenary Armies, makers of bullets, humvees, bradley tanks, cruise missiles, the glut of income this war has generated could have bought us all medical coverage, and let us retire. But noooooo, we need to "Enjoy the pleasures of being a super power", according to Richard Pearl. The people who thought this up, this war, are evil, and small, and have no sense of history, no savvy, no morals whatsoever.

Now, people who get reactionary hate mail, masquerading as valuable intelligence from the RNC, (only if you pay big bucks), feel like they have an inside intelligence track. So they post in forums like this, like they have superior knowledge of this situation, and we are all terribly misinformed. Well greedy, cowardly, short-sighted, brutal idiots, got us and Iraq into this mess. We arm and prop up Saddam's dictatorship, and then we pull out the props. History will not be kind to them, and the present is liable to rear up and kick our ass. To quote the father of a man wounded in Iraq, "We have to get our boys out of there, the whole nation is not worth the loss of a single American life." He said this directly to me.

What if the world got the idea that this election was fixed, and in order for peace to return to the world, we would have to be invaded; and we would have to have a regime change? What then?

What are we going to do then, make the whole world, even more sorry, than they already are?

 

[Smurf]

Dayle, not once in that whole post did you mention Exxon, you blamed everyone from Weapon makers to Kelloggs - stop aiming for the henchmen and take out the evil genius behind it all.

 

[Dayle Record]

I read the list over and over, trying to get them all, but I am not the verbose maniac, I used to be. Still, I will never forget that scenario of Bectel, Halliburton, and Exxon, tapping George W Bush to be a presidential candidate.

 

[Smurf]

I still havn't seen that, want to post a link?

 

[wasteofo2]

I have no illusions what this war is about, cowardice, Oil, imperialism, egalitarianism, bigotry, religious bigotry, cavalier disregard for law, and human rights, remorseless greed.

Just to tell you, egalitarianism is a positive thing (to most people), it means equality, especially in the sense of political equality and lack of class distinctions.

 

[vanesch]

Have you noticed how ya'll always change what you mean?

You stated clearly in your original post we know exactly who the terrorists are. You stated they were by and large, Al Queda (or Al Queda linked) terrorists IMPORTED during the war.

But even that statement, by itself, is funny: Iraq was invaded because it was a nest of terrorists with WMD that had to be cleaned out. Now they need to IMPORT their terrorists.

But I agree that about 150000 terrorists have been imported in Iraq

 

[Smurf]

Vanesch, 150,000 is more than are currently and have been in iraq since the war started, let alone only foriegn, I think the number is something like 20,000 right now.

 

[Dayle Record]

I think I meant something else beside egalitarianism, I think I meant what ever the one word is that describes, forcing something on someone, that they never asked for, never wanted, and then expecting to profit greatly in return. What would be the word for that?

I will look at this like a neurological test, the results aren't good.

 

[vanesch]

Vanesch, 150,000 is more than are currently and have been in iraq since the war started, let alone only foriegn, I think the number is something like 20,000 right now.

There are more US soldiers in Iraq than that, no ?

 

[omin]

omin, that post is so garbled, as to be barely readable, but your basic assertion is that the people we are fighting are, by and large, Iraqi. Two words for you: PROVE IT. I have provided ample evidence that you are wrong.

russ you have the burden of proof.

it is much more likely people in Iraq are Iraqis. hundereds of thousands of people didn't just get up and leave and then become replaced by other arabs who came from everywhere but Iraq.

when you say things are garbled or people are crackpots, it's not a valid argument. stick to the issue of debate mr. unsmarty pants.

 

[Dayle Record]

There is something I want to make perfectly clear, regarding my opinions, on the matter of Iraq. The US Soldiers there are in my heart and mind every day. They are family members, and brothers and sisters, and mothers and fathers, and have with great grace, answered the call of this government to go and "rescue" the people of Iraq, largely from our previous bungling. I have the highest degree of regard and respect and affection for the soldiers there. This is a management and vision problem. This government is behaving like a western government from a century ago, only they have more sophisticated means to sway opinion and some more sophisticated weaponry. Still their chief weapon is the intellect and body of the individual that fights for the US. What a fine weapon, but it is innately of such high value, one must question risking it for any cause.

The US government is very pro life, as long as life is defined is an embryo that can be used to control the lives of women, or the comfortable lives of the wealthy; otherwise for everyone else, all bets are off. Everything about life just became worse, from the air and water, to the job situation, to the health of our nation, to the spirit of our nation, as we live in an engineered emotional state that guarantees unlimited power to those that caused most of our current problems. There was a civil war here too, and we just lost it.

 

[russ_watters]

when you say things are garbled ...

What I was talking about was your grammar. Your posts are virtually unreadable.

1.American soldiers who attack iraqi civilians are not terrorists too?

Smurf, American soldiers do not attack civilians.

2.

Your sources are heavily biased and the conclusions are misleading. Lumping together crime with the "insurgency," for example, is an invalid association. Crime is a separate issue altogether.

I will acknowledge, though, that "vast majority" may be overstating it a bit. Part of the problem is that when the leadership is foreign and the foot-soldiers domestic, it clouds the issue. You can say half the people fighting in Falluja (made-up number) are domestic, but would they be fighting at all if their foreign leaders weren't inciting them?

 

[BobG]

You guys need to buy a program on your way into the stadium. That way you could keep the rosters straight.

Al-Sadr's group is mostly Iraqi Shiites who want to ensure religion has a very strong influence on Iraqi government and won't accept a secular government imposed by foreigners. He's separate from the Sistani Shiites, who are very hopeful they will achieve their main concerns peacably through Iraqi elections (provided, of course, the Kurds don't go ballistic at too much Shiite becoming government policy affecting the Kurds). There's at least a possibility his group will disband once the US leaves.

The Sunni groups are in total chaos, since a significant portion of their leadership was part of the old Iraqi regime. They have a significant number of foreign fundamentalists who have flowed into the region to fill the vacuum. The Sunnis are also the most desperate group, being the most likely to lose the most and the most willing to either follow or at least tolerate foreigners fighting the US (it's far from unamimous support, even among the Sunnis, many of whom are reaching the point where they'd just like to live without the fear of one side or the other killing them). At this point, these guys will be a problem regardless of who's in charge. How many fighters in this region are foreign terrorists? Maybe this is one instance of where Bush put it accurately: "They're guessing."

The Kurds are just the next potential insurgency group, depending upon how the Iraqi govermnment shakes out in the end.

We're fighting two wars in Iraq, one worse than the other, and hoping we don't wind up fighting a third.

 

[omin]

Russ, you have the burden of proof because you assert the highly unsual: the Bush theory that fundamentally implies that what I call "Iraqi civilians in defense of Iraq" were fully displaced by "terrorists from outside Iraq".

I don't have the burden of proof, because what I state is not highly improbable. But what you and regime Bush assert is physicaly ridiculous. It is highly improbable that that many human beings would exchange places in such a short period of time almost under any circumstances. Those people who fight against the occupiers are surely civilians defending their Iraq, until you provide physical evidence proving how this unusual switch was done.

Even if what you say was true about the ridiculous switch...

Our military consists of people from many American states. In a similar idiotic case that California were being occupyied by a terrorist Bush type to glean the last bit of gold from Californias streams, the people who crossed state lines to defend California would be mere terrorists, under Bushes abject reasoning. They are not terrorists only because they are not from California or Iraq in either case.

Bush regime ignores this superior point, therefore the Bush regime is ignorant in a superior way on this issue. I will accept that I am only the ignorant one Russ, when you provide the physical evidence that supports your unusual claim. But, then I'll know, and I won't be ignorant. Come on Russ, enlighten me!

The evidence to date equates to mutilated women and children and men without guns from outside Iraq who according to your Bush theory displaced the real Iraqis. They have been the significant target when we let the evidence tell the story versus letting the propoganda tell the story.

In science Russ, actions do speak louder than theories.

 

[BobG]

As far off the mark as some of Omin's comments have drifted, his core contention that Iraq is now a civil war is pretty close to an accurate description. Naturally, almost all Iraqi groups are philosophically opposed to US occupation, even if some groups feel it's currently necessary in order to prevent a far bloodier civil war from occurring.

Iraq has been a civil war waiting to happen for quite some time. Hussein's oppression of opposing groups set the table for massive instability to occur as soon as he (or his sons or other Baathist ruler) lost control.

There's a huge number of disparate groups in Iraq and accepting the presence of foreign terrorists in sections of Iraq is as much a reflection of the internal struggle that would occur with an immediate US withdrawal as it is opposition of the US presence itself.

As I said earlier, you need a program to understand who the players are and the positions they're playing. The link below lists the different political organizations in Iraq and give an indication both of the possible alliances that could bring stability as well as the difficulties in achieving a unified country.

http://www.rferl.org/specials/iraqcrisis/
The political organizations are in the Specials section, under Iraqi political groups (it takes two parts to list them all).

 

[omin]

BobG,

The comments I have tackled asserted that Iraq is not a civil war. These comments abjectly asserted those who are fighting the Bush regime occupation aren't from Iraq. I didn't drift to this. I simply showed how this "Great People Swap" is highly improbable, to decrease what you call drifting.

By evidence of the information you put forward, it can seem to imply that by Iraqis differing factions was seed enough to cause the war occurring or that these political differences would have brought such violence anyway. This is a common misception by the way that it attempts to serve as a justification for the invasion. Is this where you want this to drift? This civil war has a simple cause: The US criminal invasion, not preexisting factions which are common to all state societies.

We have severals factions within our country, America, which in the event of a Bush-type terror attack and occupation, would create a similar stuggle to take political control. We would have looting. We would have insurgents. We'd have so-called terrorists who are terrorsts just because they crossed state lines to fight the occupiers. And we'd damn right snipe occupiers and execute those who joined the occupiers. Despite the many Iraqi factions, like our own, Iraq was much more stable before the occupation, and less likely to become unstable without an invasion. The is apparently understood by most of the world who was more intelligent that Bush to not agree with the invasion.

Bush wasn't wrong, he was stupid. People who are wrong can understand the difference between wrong and right and have the ability to correct themselves. Stupid people keep doing more of the same stupidity. Four more years of murder is what we are looking at.

We'd have the same oil at a lower price and Iraq would still be stable to supply it. Dropping the sactions was all that needed to be done. But now we are further in debt, diplomacy between Iraq and US is horrible, and ten of thousands of Iraqis have been unnecessarily killed (which is murder according to human civil theory) only because of Bush regimes abject political theory.

 

[BobG]

Actually, my feeling was that Iraq was a box of trouble that the US shouldn't have opened, especially when our emphasis should have been on the real war against terror. No matter how bad Hussein may have been for Iraqis, stability in Iraq was the best thing for the US. As likely as Iraq may have been to fall into civil war on its own (absent tyranical repression), the US invasion has made the situation in Iraq even more complicated and divisive.

There are foreign terrorists in Iraq, but that's also a misleading fact. Here's a link to the known armed rogue groups in Iraq:

http://www.rferl.org/specials/IraqCrisis/specials-armedgroups.asp

The first, an Islamic fundamentalist group called Ansar Al-Islam, did have Al-Qaeda connections and did exist prior to the invasion of Iraq. This was an armed group that opposed Saddam Hussein. Since Hussein's departure, this group has had a split, with the Ansar Al-Sunnah Army opposing the US and coalition forces even more actively than they opposed Hussein.

Other groups with foreign backing include Jama'at Al-Tawhid wa Al-Jihad (Zarqawi's group) that moved in after the US invasion; Faylaq Badr (Badr Corps), the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)'s armed wing that was backed by Iran prior to the US invasion (this group was hostile, if ineffective against Hussein and is less than hostile to the coalition government, even if it resists disarming); and Islamic Jihad Brigades of Muhammad's Army, a loose organization of several militant groups that includes a small percentage of foreign terrorist groups.

The groups include Hussein loyalists (Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party and Hussein's son, Uday's, Fedayeen Saddam (Saddam's Martyrs).

The groups also include an anti-Hussein group, Tha'r Allah (Vengeance Detachments) that hunts down former Hussein officials with no regard to the laws of Iraq's provisional government.

The group also include Muqtada Sadr's group (Imam Al-Mahdi Army) and its sub-groups, including the Usbat Al-Huda (The daughter of Guidance), a group of women fighters that conduct suicide attacks against US forces.

And, yes, Bush was very stupid. Beyond any ideological differences I have against his administration, stupidity and incompetence is the main reason I had hoped to see him defeated in the election. Stupidity and incompetence are much more dangerous than a president with an opposing view point.

 

[BobG]

http://www.fairandbalanced.us/docs/StoryID3263.htm

Quote:
In the Summer of 2003, there were some reports that Syrians were often outnumbering locals in carrying out attacks in various locations including Fallujah, Ramadi, Baghdad, Baqubah, Balad, Tikrit and Mosul however, these reports were contradicted by reports in November indicating most fighters in most parts of Iraq have been native Iraqis.

This points out a key difference. Some reports about a few locations in Iraq (notably the Sunni triangle) vs. reports about Iraq, overall.