Would you join the Iraqi resistance movement if you were an Iraqi?

[ProfessorPlum]

This very interesting and excellent post, http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=5929, via atrios (actually Holden) ( http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/ ) ends this way:

"To conclude, imagine yourself an Iraqi. You've suffered terribly under a ruthless dictator. The Americans invade your country under false pretenses. They promise democracy but don't organize elections. They appoint exiles to rule you, exiles who spend most of their time out of the country and the rest in a few highly protected areas. The occupiers break into your homes in the middle of the night and arrest your men, who then disappear, with no accountability. They shoot Iraqis at roadblocks and from convoys. They declare war on the second most popular man in the country, announcing his death in advance. They open the economy to US corporations and give them sweetheart contracts, ignoring local business. Then they write hundreds of laws and establish commissions limiting any future government. They build permanent military bases on your soil. Then they turn your country over to a former associate of Saddam Hussein, also a former CIA agent, known for his ruthless brutality. Imagine that was your country. What would you do?"

Also, remember that we killed thousands in the first Gulf war, abandoned those who would have risen up aganist Hussein, have left their country rotten with depleted uranium, have invoked cruel sanctions for over a decade, and announced that we wanted to fight Al Qaeda in their country, thus inviting terrorism in. Oh, also our soldiers are raping their young boys, apparently.

So, would you go all "Red Dawn" on US soldiers, or not? I find it hard to believe the warmongering right-wingers in this country would just sit by and take this - if they were in Iraqi shoes.

[TeacherCreature]

1. yes

Wouldn't you join the american resistance if we were invaded and occupied?

[ProfessorPlum]

3. that's what I'm getting at

why are people so upset at Iraqis for not being "grateful"? After all, we got rid of Saddam Hussein
/wingnut

[jukes]

9. i think

we have been. & that's all i'll say on that topic.

[tom_paine]

2. Imperial Amerika HAS suffered under an Evil Dictator

and our suffering has only begun...

[in_cog_ni_to]

Yes.

I would. They are fighting for their country just like we would fight for ours.

[trotsky]

4. The second sentence needs some additional words.

It SHOULD say,

You've suffered terribly under a ruthless dictator who was supported and armed by America for years.

From an Iraqi's perspective, it's hard to see an improvement in their situation.

[REVOLT823]

5. If someone came into the US and deposed Bushco,

who I would love to see imprisoned, I would still fight the occupiers, its our country, and I would not sit by idly while my fellow Americans were killed.

[arcane1]

10. you are god-damned right!

Let them call me a "Bush loyalist" all they want :grr:

[Upfront]

6. With A doubt.

I would.

[ProfessorPlum]

7. wiithout a doubt? nt

[redqueen]

8. Don't be surprised

when this kind of crap is used to insinuate that Dems want our troops to be defeated in Iraq.