I just watched this MTV Diary of Gideon Yago, an MTV News punk who went over to IRAQ for a few weeks in November.
So he rounds up a few younger IRAQI's (aged about 18-24) and starts asking them if they were glad the US invaded IRAQ. They said that at the beginning, yes they were happy, but now they are not sure. They say that the infastructure is still fucked up and change is not happening fast enough.
Meanwhile, one of them shows the reporter an internet cafe that did not exist before the war, and goes on to say that before the Americans came he couldnt access CNN.com or any real news sites. That just shows how they were living before.
So let me get this straight, Saddam fucks up IRAQ for over 30 fucking years, and we're supposed to have it all patched up in 8 months?
What do you expect. I have so many friends over there telling me they hate us period. When we leave it will go back to hell. That is all those people know and anything else will just be too foreign to them. They will never be able to govern themselves for any legth of time peacefully. All our work over there will be for not, and they will still hate us after we leave.
I just watched this MTV Diary of Gideon Yago, an MTV News punk who went over to IRAQ for a few weeks in November.
So he rounds up a few younger IRAQI's (aged about 18-24) and starts asking them if they were glad the US invaded IRAQ. They said that at the beginning, yes they were happy, but now they are not sure. They say that the infastructure is still fucked up and change is not happening fast enough.
Meanwhile, one of them shows the reporter an internet cafe that did not exist before the war, and goes on to say that before the Americans came he couldnt access CNN.com or any real news sites. That just shows how they were living before.
So let me get this straight, Saddam fucks up IRAQ for over 30 fucking years, and we're supposed to have it all patched up in 8 months?
DUMB FUCKS.
Eddie
I don't get your anger. Stupid question gets a stupid answer -whats surprising with that? US went and attacked their country because allegedly Iraq was a threat to the national security of the united states. Sure, it can be argued (and i happen to believe that it's true) that the average Iraqi stands a better chance of having a better living but it is also true that the Iraqi's are full of emotions about being occupied by a foreign force -especially a force from a country which has for years been viewed as their enemy.
Put it this way, you won't know until decades from now if history will judge US favourably or not. I think it's very similar to how what happened to Japan after WWII, it was decades before the trust was put into place so that US and Japan became true allies.
There is really no point in asking questions like "are you happy", it's way too early imho.
I have several family members in and around the Middle East. Most of the anger is two fold. A) our support to Israel. The second was the way we picked who we deal with(Shah of Iran, Saudi's King Faed, Saddam.
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