Why do we keep helping the opposition in Iraq? - Today’s Headlines 4/2/08

[Caro]

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Al-Sadr stronghold brims with confidence
BAGHDAD - Black banners announcing the deaths of Mahdi Army fighters plaster the streets. Scores of Shiite militiamen gather at the funeral of a fallen comrade as a U.S. helicopter gunship hover menacingly above. The Baghdad district of Sadr City bears the scars of recent fighting, but men loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr are confident they have already won.
Why do we keep helping the opposition in Iraq?—Caro

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Carolyn Kay
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[Jack Rabbit]

1. Elementary, my dear Watson

Bush and his aides knew nothing about the Iraqi people when they planned the invasion with the intent of telling the Iraqi people how they should govern themselves. It should be no surprise to any one, then, that social forces in Iraq did not behave as Mr. Bush and the neocons thought they would. They don't know who the enemy is, and among the Iraqis they have few, if any, real friends.

[tuckessee]

2. Everybody is the "opposition" in Iraq.

Besides a few Quislings & opportunists no one wants your armies in their counrty.

[Winterblues]

3. We created tyhe opposition out of whole cloth so why wouldn't we help it?

Think about this for a second, There would be no opposition if the USA left the country

[damntexdem]

4. Easily answered: the Bushistas have no idea who their opponents are.

But actually, they do tend to simplify that situation -- through actions that make enemies of EVERYBODY. However, although simplified, it means that whatever they do, they help their opponents.