Originally posted by: rchiu
Did Bush put Saddam into power? Did Bush cause Saddam to kill hundreds of thousands of his own countrymen? Did Bush cause Saddam to develope chemical, biological and have a nuclear weapons program? Did Bush continue the status quo which was hurting the entire Middle East? No, he did something about it.
Cause and effect. Something had to be done, Pres. Bush and his administration did it instead of letting the situation continue to fester and grow worse.
What situation? You mean Saddam had WMD? Saddam haboring terrorist? Any proof of those claims 4 or 5 month after the war?
And yeah Bush and his admin sure did something and look at Iraq now, no electricity, water, gas, food, and jobs. Daily attacks on American and international presence. Iraqi got a government of exiles who haven't been in the countries for last 20 years, national resources controlled by American doing whatever they want without third party watching, invasion to their home, curfew, arrests without trials in the name of hunting for Saddam loyalist and supporter. Hey, who cares, you are not the ones suffering right?
Really, no electricity at all in Iraq, prove it.
No water at all in Iraq, prove it.
No gas, food, jobs , prove it.
The attacks are not nation wide and seem to be foreigners and rements of Saddam's regime for the most part.
As for the rest, the situation is better than it was under Saddam and will continue to improve if people will stop spreading lies and hate both in and out of Iraq.
There are problems to be sure in Iraq. The people there have been brutilized under Saddam rule for mnay years. There are forces in the Arab world that believe that the US is the Great Satan and will go to Iraq to continue to perpetrate hate and violence in the name of their religion. But all of the news is not bad even though you want it to be.
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IWANIYA, Iraq, Aug. 19 ? As the area around Baghdad endured a week of repeated violence, a happier scene unfolded in this city, a two-hour drive to the south.
American soldiers, without helmets or flak jackets, attended graduation ceremonies of the Diwaniya University Medical School. At ease with the Iraqi students and their parents, the American marines laughed, joked and posed in photographs. One by one, the students walked up to thank them, for Marine doctors had taught classes in surgery and gynecology and helped draw up the final exams.
"We like the Americans very much here," said Zainab Khaledy, 22, who received her medical degree last Sunday. "We feel better than under the old regime. We have problems, like security, but everything is getting better."
Such is the dual reality that is coming to define the American enterprise in Iraq, a country increasingly divided between those willing to put up with the American occupation and those determined to fight it. While the areas stretching west and north from Baghdad roil and burn, much of the rest of the country remains, most of the time, remarkably calm. Rather than fight the Americans, most Iraqis appear to be readily accepting the benefits of a wide-ranging reconstruction.
The two faces of the occupation give American policy makers both something to take solace in and something to worry over. Four months into the occupation, the rebellion against American forces, though fierce, is still largely limited to the Arab Sunni Muslim population and its foreign supporters and is confined to a relatively limited geographic area.
In much of the rest of the country, in places like Diwaniya and Mosel and Amara, the American and British soldiers are finding a population that has, at least for now, made a fragile and tentative peace with the occupation. Violence still does break out. [On Saturday, three British soldiers were killed in the south, in Basra. Page 12.]
But increasingly in broad parts of the country violence no longer seems the norm.
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Chaos and Calm Are Dual Iraq Realities
