[rextorres]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
I might be glad that GWB has obviously doomed himself politically, but it's going to be a horribly high price to pay to get the neo-fascists out of office.

Unfortunately - I am not so sure about that - I listen to conservative radio programs and most of them say that what's going on in Iraq was intended - and they are blaming any problems they may have on French or Turkish intransigence.

First of all the Turks didn't let us use Turkey in '91 when we had some moral authority and real diplomacy then. So any plan that involved invading from Turkey was wishful thinking and inherently flawed to begin with.

Also Rumsfield's plan obviously screwed up the supply issue - it's not a good thing when an M1A1 is sitting in the desert with no gas.

They also underestimated Iraqi nationalism - I saw a picture of the "sinister" militia and most of them looked like civilians to me - I mean apparently these people can't hit the side of a barn so it suggests to me that most of the people picked up a gun pretty recently and have no training. What people forget is that the Iraqis got rid of the Brits 40 or so years ago and every Iraqi child is taught of THAT liberation so they are never going to accept reimposition of what they perceive as an attempt at colonial rule.

[ April 01, 2003, 19:26: Message edited by: rextorres ]