Replies to post #138604 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[niceonice]

Yeah, you're right ieddyidjit, we should go in and start a war we can't win, and recruit tens of thousands of people who otherwise wished us no harm to the fundamentalist islamic cause.

Then our moronic preznint and his lickspittle apologists can skip going to a single dead solider's funeral, but accuse others of being sell-outs and cowards!!!

Yeah, idjit, that should work, right? Right? Let's do it. I've got a GREAT idea, let's invade Iraq. That will put a stop to all this nonsense and we'll have peace, democracy, a government that respects human rights and doesn't torture its citizens. They'll greet us with flowers, and the invasion and occupation will pay for itself. Yeah, great idea.

Oops, I forgot, it's 2005 and we already tried that.

Dang.

Now we'll have to use our heads.

[BullNBear52]

Two and a half years after the American invasion, deep divides that have long split Iraqi society have violently burst into full view. As the hatred between Sunni Arabs and Shiites hardens and the relentless toll of bombings and assassinations grows, families are leaving their mixed towns and cities for safer areas where they will not automatically be targets. In doing so, they are creating increasingly polarized enclaves and redrawing the sectarian map of Iraq, especially in Baghdad and the belt of cities around it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/international/middleeast/20sectarian.html

You really don't have a clue what is happening in Iraq do you?