Reply #15: Amazing, isn't it?

[dpibel]

You can present all the informed opinion you want that Iraq won't explode if the benevolent forces of the USofA withdraw, but folks just know that it will. What's their source? Well...gosh...the mainstream media tell us that. What more could you want? Or maybe it's just a gut feeling.

You know how it is with those foreigners: they just don't have the good sense that Americans do. They like blood and killing, unlike the peaceful Americans, who demonstrate their distate for that kind of stuff by engaging in a great deal of bloodshed and killing.

For those concerned about this mighty civil war: (1) how much worse could things get? and (2) if you're so convinced that the factions in Iraq harbor nothing but bloodlust for one another, just what makes you think that they won't harbor that hatred for as long as it takes to get the US out? Once that's done, perhaps by those crafty people pretending to settle down after the US mercifully flattens a few more of their cities, they'll just go after it, bad as ever. The only difference is that the US may manage to kill another 100 thousand or two in the interim.

Let's face it, folks: the US isn't making things better in Iraq. We broke it, now we're breaking it worse. The US invaded Iraq under false pretenses. Maybe it's just me, but that's not a good start for a case that this invasion was done for good purposes. Why should anyone believe that, having started a war of aggression, the US has changed course, and is now there on a humanitarian mission. That's really just a little too curvy for my simple mind.