On Thu, 12 May 2005 12:57:28 -0500, Dan Minette wrote > why would you suggest that attacks by some people > indicate that most people are worse off?
I didn't suggest that. I suggested that those people, as well as the hundreds of thousands who demonstrated against our occupation on April 9th, are saying that they would be better off it we left. > The evidence that I've seen is that the overwhelming majority of the > local grown attacks are from Sunnis. Right now, there are > negotiations with Sunni political leaders about going through Sunni > tribal leaders to work out an amnesty program for many of the insurgents. Sadr City is a Shiite area, not Sunni. That was my point -- these are the people who presumably wanted us to free them from Saddam. If the Shiites, of all people, are fighting against us, who the heck wants us there? They're the ones who ambush our troops, they're the ones who put 300,000 people on the streets on April 9th. > You mention Sadr City, but Sadr himself has decided to work politically > instead of militarily. Everything that I see indicates that the > attacks in Iraq (which mainly kill Iraqis) are by Sunni. First, so what if Sadr is working politically? That is no indication of whether or not he thinks the country is better off -- he hasn't backed off even slightly from his position that he wants the U.S. out, and people are following him, lots of people. As far as I know, nobody has linked Sadr directly to the violence in Sadr City. He's a cleric, not a soldier. Second, our troops have been ambushed in Sadr City -- it has become one of the most dangerous places in the country for our troops. I don't think anyone questions that the attacks are being done by Shiites, people who surely were happy to see Saddam go, since it had been the center of anti-Saddam sentiment. Look up what happened on 04/04/04, a rather infamous day, but far from the only incident there. What do you think it means when the people who most wanted Saddam out of power, the people we supposedly were rescuing from oppression, are killing our troops and demonstrating in massive numbers for us to leave? Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
