Iraq's Profound Lack Of Gratitude After All The U.S. Has Done For Them

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Iraq's Profound Lack Of Gratitude After All The U.S. Has Done For Them

On Thursday (5/26), in Baghdad 100,000 Iraqi people peacefully protested the U.S. occupation of their nation. Thousands more peacefully demonstrated in other Iraq cities. What profound ingratitude for all the U.S. has done for them.

The U.S. under its "War on Terror" brought them "Operation Iraqi Freedom" at a cost in lives of over a million Iraqi men, women and children, hundreds of thousands more who have been severely injured and a million more Iraqi children orphaned. The Pentagon calls this "ancillary damage." Two million Iraqis have fled their nation, including many doctors, nurses, professors, teachers, scholars, businesspeople, lawyers and others who form the foundation of any progressive society. Once again it is, "ancillary damage."

Continued at: http://sane-ramblings.blogspot.com/2011/05/iraqs-profound-lack-of-gratitude-to-us.html

[truedelphi]

1. I think a lot of us suspected from the get go that they would be unappreciative -

Damn Iraqis!

And think of what they have gotten in return for a few measly deaths and a decade of war - GM food is required as main food crops to be planted, plus they now have McDonalds, and they can watch porn!

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2. And "Operation Iraq Freedom" has done wonders for employment, too

FUBAR

[Distant Observer]

3. Same likely applies in Afganistan, Pakistan, and soon in Libya. Resolving civil conflicts killing

people and destroying lives on one side to support another does not tend to breed
affection. The side we are killing hate us forever. The side we are killing for assume we are using them for our own agenda -- since we have a long history of doing that.

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5. Exactly....

Too bad we did not have a reasonable person (like you) as president in 2001. As far as 2011, I thought I had voted for a man of reason...

[DCBob]

4. Nation building does not work especially in that part of the world..

I think the money and lives were mostly wasted. Iraq will never be the "beacon of freedom and democracy" that the idiot Bush dreamed of.

[JBoy]

6. We can thank Dick Cheney's razor-sharp analysis for this:

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/cheneymeetthepress.htm

Cheney on Meet the Press, March 16, 2003:

MR. RUSSERT: If your analysis is not correct, and we’re not treated as liberators, but as conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: Well, I don’t think it’s likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators.

[ck4829]

7. Destroyed infrastructure, thousands of lives lost, insurgents sneaking in, still "not free"

If someone demolished my house to look for something that wasn't there and then demanded that I be grateful they destroyed my home, I'd tell them to take a long walk on a short plank.

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9. That's a great analogy...

Thank you for sharing it.

[Courtesy Flush]

8. They don't know what an opportunity we've given them.

With no viable government, Iraq is an incubator for free enterprise. Rejoice that the government is out of the public service business, and seize the opportunity for a fertile business environment!!!1!

:sarcasm: