Who cares what everybody feels... seems like people are siding
with Saddam simply on basic of race and religon, not that who is
really doing more harm to the iraqi people...
It Saddam was really the nice cool leader that some arabs support,
I think the best judge of that would be the iraqi people, who on
their own accord, without be coherced by any regime, started
tearing down his images and stomping their foot on them. The iraqi
people have spoken, they want saddam out, even if it means that
some of them are going to die in the war. Better to die in the path
for a better future then back to saddam's hell.
And that's what's matters, the opinion of the iraqi people, not
what pro-us or pro-iraqi people may say here. What the iraqis have
chosen now is clear. It's obvious they do not want indefinate
american rule, and will have to form their own govt, but it's
something they want, and saddam is not part of the picture in that
govt.
Of course, there's little sense in the americans really wanting to
occupy the country indefinately as well, not in the sense of costs,
but also because a truly friendly regime will not be created by
american oppression, but by a country in which the freedom of the
iraqi people to choose their govt. is realized. Besides, the US
pratically ahs the middle east on a noose, consuming 40 percent of
the world's energy resources anyway. If arab nations want the US to
fail economically and military in this operation, then they are in
sense, predicting their own demise as well. America keeps the money
flowing in the gulf. If any self-interest was involved in this war,
it's not the capturing of iraqi oil reserves for a monopolostic
free grasp on it as if they dun have enuff oil (no dobut to much
world disconsertation), but to open up another friendly regime that
will supply them this resource in return for cash. It benifits
everybody, the americans and as well as the iraqi people would can
now finally have the cash to make their country rich and prosperous
the way it was supposed to be, free from tinpot dictators like
saddam.
It sure beats oil-for-food.
