Quote Originally Posted by cam
Are you guys sick of seeing soldiers being killed everyday. I am Canadian and I just can't stomach it. Sometimes their dead bodies are being dragged around. But now it has been over a year with no apparent control of the bloodshed. I think it is actually getting worse. I wonder if Bush can win an election. It seems to me the heavy hand has back fired and ended up slapping himself in the face. I am just thinking out loud here.
that we in America often don't visually see the same stuff that you do in there. I heard all about the dead and the way they were treated, but didn't "see" any of it. I suppose that's the way it goes. I find it interesting that Americans are such a sensitive group that the "hard truth" of what goes on would be feared so to remove it from being aired. There are those that would argue that no "good" could come of it and all we're doing by removing it is protecting the families from additional anguish. Yet those same people are so bent on being absolute truthfullness when it comes to a president cheating on his wife or trading arms for freeing hostiges or any other inquiry. I suppose it all comes back to what you as a society can stomach and what's considered to be obscene. Maybe if Americans were more knowledgeble in the actual horror of war, they wouldn't be so quick to jump onboard or be so quick to get out when it got a little nasty. In all, just over 500 Americans have died in the whole war with Iraq(I mean Saddam, after all we "like" the people there I'm told) and considering what has been accomplished, I don't think that's too bad.

But now it has been over a year with no apparent control of the bloodshed. I think it is actually getting worse.

All you have here is a group(s) that see the transfer of power to a still weak, defenseless government and the oppurtunity to take advantage of it. From this point on, we will have to include the Iraqi's in any decision making as far as how to handle the uprisings if the new government is to have any credibility. We can protect the new government but approval of such action has to be seen as coming from them for the people to respect both the government and the action by us. It's kinda funny, when you think about it, that we've had all this time to try to explain to the Iraqi's the positive things that are going on through the media in the country but we don't seem to be interested in how the average Iraqi perceives the Americans and what they are doing to help. We prize the media for the info they provide us ... don't you think the Iraqi's would equally do so? I'm not saying that we should "control" the established news groups, but introduce a new "temp" one with Iraqi spokesmen and content that is more positive to the cause at hand. One that encourages involvement at the bottom level to help in rounding up the insurgents and expresses the benefits of doing so.

I wonder if Bush can win an election.

Would you want him to? Do you think it would be in the worlds best interest? Your own?

It seems to me the heavy hand has back fired and ended up slapping himself in the face.

That's what happens when you have a good plan for war and you make up the rest as you go. Pretty soon your face begins to hurt.