Why should be expect to provide everyone with these services? Not that I wanted to invade the country, but shouldn't there be national consequences for having such a dictator? Isn't there any sort of self-responsibility for a nation's actions? You act bad, you get punished. Now pick yourself up and move on.
Clearly this group of people must not have had it THAT BAD in order to keep living under Saddam's control. There all kinds of precedents in history that shows that when a nation is suppressed hard and long, it will eventually strike back against its government and reform itself into a new nation under new guidance. The US did it, France did it, Poland, the former Soviet Union, Germany... the difference here in the US country-building between a country like Japan and Iraq is that Japan had a strong national allegiance to a national emperor who remained emperor after the war, whereas we've set up a lackey as a new PM. Matt Small -----Original Message----- From: SStewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 2:22 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Let's just bomb Mecca I think one of the major places we've failed in Iraq is showing the average Abdul on the street in Baghdad that his life could be better after Saddam. Instead of the big ticket items (electrical plants and oil refineries) we should be making sure that each and every Iraqi household has basic services, (water, electricity, phones, etc.) If we could connect with the citizens, by proving that life after Saddam is better, I think they'd abandon the insurgency in droves. We rebuilt Japan after WWII why can we do the same in Iraq. sas Scott A. Stewart, Web Application Developer Engineering Consulting Services, Ltd. (ECS) 14026 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 Chantilly, VA 20151 Phone: (703) 995-1737 Fax: (703) 834-5527 "Many thousands of years ago, a blue faced Pict stepped on a bloated sheep carcass... and thus the Pipes were born" ..... the Scottish Rogues -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.0/50 - Release Date: 07/16/2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:165128 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
