- New York Times:
"the editors realized that some questions were impossible to answer. For example, she said, the editors understood that it was much easier to add up the number of dead than to determine how many hospitals received power on a particular day or how many schools were built."
Wouldn't it be just an administrative detail to located the new power areas, and the number of new schools? Seems like sitting around, waiting for more American deaths so you can rush out and tell the world that the americans are dying, and this raises questions abut the Bush strategy is easier. Instead of being proactive, the want to be reactive and wait for the death reports.
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A running death count doesn't do any one any good. And we do not have lots of corpse. In WWII, the battle of Iwo Jima had more casualties then what we have expericanced in 2 years over in Iraq. In the middle of a war, losing only 2 or 3 soliders a day is excellent.
Our administration has handed the government back to the Iraqi people, and a new consititution was just drafted. Sounds like the administration knew what they were doing.
" Yeah, we've handed it back to them, just in time for the civil war they are not prepared to fight."
A civil war caused by outside terrorists, from Syria and Iran, not the native Iraqis. Thats why we are over there in the first place, to stop the freedom hating islamist that will stop at just about nothing to win.
Better to fight them over there, then to fight them over here.
"You are right, losing 2 or 3 soldiers a day is excellent, if it only lasted a week. We're working on year three now, right?"
Even in the long run, its a a small loss. In any other war aside from the Persian Gulf, we were losing at least dozen US soldiers every day, and that would be on a good day.
Ah, your right, the consitution is not finished over there, just a draft was compleated. Buts it a lot more then would have happened under Sadam Hussain.
"It's been a year and two... maybe three months since we handed governmental control over"
The american revolution took 7 years. This is a short period of time compared to our government change.
"Don't blow smoke up my ass about noble causes, because destabilizing a country is not a noble cause"
It was already unstalb,e but I won't blow smoke up.. :D
"Don't blow smoke up my ass about noble causes, because destabilizing a country is not a noble cause."
That's not the cause. It's the effect. There is a difference. And WE aren't the ones destabilizing anything. We're the ones who are in there trying to fix everything, but we will step out when the Iraqi government is ready. The trouble is, it's not ready yet. It won't be ready until either all the terrorists are gone or they can fight off the remaining terrorists.
"And before you say it, I don't think we should pull out either. Let's just clean up our mess and go home." Our mess? No, we didn't make the mess. We make very few of the messes we clean up after. We come in when things are going poorly, because that's just what we do. Hussein made the mess, and now we have him. Hussein was the cause, and we have stopped the cause. Now the trick is to take care of all those nasty little effects running around.
^Here here!^
We solved a couple of problems over there, such as mass murduers and torture...
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