Unsubstantiated rumour or point of fact?

[kandrathe]

I guess if 600 heavily armed soldiers and combinations of Special Forces guys (or, the "Born Again Hard", who live to train) came to my hovel I'd surrender in a heart beat. To do anything else would just be suicide.

All this Iraqi bravado talk of being dissapointed in Saddam's easy capture and humiliation to me is bunk. How many of the Republican Guard or Fedayeen Saddam stood and fought? That place was littered from north to south, with the discarded uniforms and weapons of former soldiers. Humiliation is forcing people to watch their children being tortured, or standing your 3rd world army up against the US twice with no hope. Saddam was the ultimate humilator of the Iraqi's. I mean the only twisted logic that makes sense is that Saddam thought he could garner worldwide Islamic sympathy for having the US stomp on Iraq again. This relates more with your other post in this forum, but unfortunately OUR media and certainly Al Jezeera, et. al. are only representing the partial truth about the post war Iraqi situation. We are in a damned if you do, and damned if you don't situation.

Side A says: We've restored most of the power generation and most of the water treatment facilities, hospitals, schools, and most services are restored.
Side B counters: In such and such a place, the power is only on 4 hours a day, and in such and such a place they only have bottled water brought in by truck once a week.
Side A replies: Yes, but the infrastructure was broken before the war even started and they are better off than they were 4 years ago.
Side B counters: But, the US did this to them with their oppressive sanctions.

I scream in exhasparation. It's a no win proposition. They don't want us there, and they don't want us to bugger out of there. Whose 168 billion dollars is rebuilding Iraq? It would have been so much easier to just a drop a huge number of cheap dumb bombs until everything stopped moving, but I think the way we conducted the war, and the peace deserves just a little recognition. Are there any other nations in the world that take the time, effort and resources to rebuild their defeated enemies?

Are things perfect? No. Are they close to perfect? No. Will they ever be, I don't know and it's probably a problem the Iraqi's will need to deal with on their own. Are things better for the average Iraqi, than the average Haitian, or Liberian, or Sudanese? Most likely.