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Originally posted by RawAlex@Jun 28 2004, 05:18 PM
Mike, it is also hard to negotiate with people who have just had their father / mother / brother / sister killed in an air strike or had their homes or businesses destroyed... or had their store looted or lost their job as a government official or as part of the military. They just don't give a shit about what anyone else has to say, they lost stuff, and they know who took it from them.
At that point, the radical terrorist message starts to sound way closer to the truth (as they know it) than anything the US can say.
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from what i see and read, the opposite is happening more and more.
200,000 new terrorists?
more and more Iraqis are challenging terrorists and starting to fight back. terrorists are killing mostly Iraqi's... not Americans... and a large % of those terrorists are not even Iraqi's.
you make it sound as if things are getting worse and worse... but there is just no evidence to support that. in fact, things are clearly getting better by the day. where are the 10's of thousands of people protesting? where are the religious leaders demanding everyone rebel as they were before? Fallujah... quiet. Takrit... no news from there. New government, new Constitution, economy booming etc etc. Bagdad now suffering occasional blackouts because of the massive surge in consumer goods being purchased and used such as washing machines, home electronics etc.
sorry to dissapoint you with a reality that is a little more optimistic than your doom and gloom and deep rooted desire to see America and Bush fail.