Re: We are still in the first Quarter..............The Game is not Ove
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*The insurgents have been alienting the Iraqi population more than winning them over. This attack on the mosque is the act of desparation and not strength. The next few days will be critical.
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I agree with this in part. I do think that normal Iraqis realize that this violence was incited by the Isalmic extremists, either homegrown or imported. They see Americans trying to build infastruture, and these other guys blow it up. They see their police and brothers blown up.
However, what is alarming is I think the recruiting of soliders whose loyalties at one time perhaps tended towards an Iraqi State, but now are willing to kill for Allah is growing. Out of despair breeds this sick fundamentalism. I hope it is, but this isn't a "act of desparation", ("last throes"?)...IMO...
I try not to have hatred, but the enemy is F-ing Sick Mother F-ers. "The next few days will be critical"...typical American thinking, these freaks will wait you out. Cyrus is right, TIME IS ON THEIR SIDE.
Stop thinking in terms of "well most Iraqis are for us..." One obessed, suicidal, 100% commited religious freak is worth 10 regular people. Whether its an election for your local School Board or war in Iraq, these religious fundamentalists are a powerful force. Google Karl Rove.
A wild-eye, mask wearing 20 yr old, building a roadside bomb, praying and fasting all day, with his 16 year old brother posting the bombing on the web both with the moral discipline to not even jack off to vigins in the afterlife since "we'll be there soon enough brother" vs 20 grieving mothers, old men and kind hearted shop keepers?
Buddha said, "Anger is never appeased with Anger, Anger is only appeased with Love.". Or "who would Jesus bomb?". After 9-11, we could have united the world, shown the 16 year old above, when he was 11, the prosperity of the West on the net, the friendship and support a united world, and the HEAD OF OSAMA. But no, Bush decided to shock and awe him to democracy. 2300 dead Americans 100000 dead Iraqis...tragic.
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