Are there any people left on this Earth who still think that.... [View All]

[bobweaver]

the people in Iraq were ever going to, and are ever going to, and ever would in a million years, submit to domination by the U.S. in any way, shape or form? Does anybody actually believe that they would buy Nokia phones and Verizon service and start eating at McDonalds and buying Nike shoes and Britney Spears records? Does anybody truly hold the belief that the Iraqi people - insurgents and citizens alike - are actually going to allow the U.S. and/or U.S. corporations to have control over the ocean of oil underneath Iraq? Anyone who believes this is completely ignorant of Middle Eastern peoples and their cultures. These people are much smarter and shrewder than the U.S. officials give them credit for. They see the U.S. as an occupying force that must be eliminated from their land. Anyone who still thinks that Iraqis see the U.S. as "liberators" is burying their head in the sand. And anyone who thinks the Iraqi people are going to "forgive and forget" the Abu Ghraib prison scandal is equally stupid and ignorant. The Iranian people have never forgotten the 1953 overthrow of their democratically elected prime minister by the CIA, after 50 years. Whoever thought up this stupid war in Iraq obviously has no concept or knowlege of Middle Eastern people and thinks they are a bunch of dumb munchkins or something. I have friends who are from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey and after talking to them all about this, it is clear to me that everyone in the Middle East knows exactly why the U.S. military is there. I know most of the people on DU already know this, but are there still people out in the world who think that Iraq can be "Americanized" like the Phillippines was?