Civil what now?
Iraqi troops refuse to fight Iraqis: "We received a report that a whole battalion (in Najaf) threw down their rifles,' said one high-ranking defense ministry official, who didn't want his name published because he's not an official spokesman. 'We expected this, and we expect it again and again.'
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"I'm ready to fight for my country's independence and for my country's stability," one lieutenant colonel said. "But I won't fight my own people."
"No way," added another officer, who said his brother - a colonel - quit the same day he received orders to serve in the field. "These are my people. Why should I fight someone just because he has a difference in opinion about the future of the country?"
This is bad for us in that we want the new Iraqi army to be fighting insurgents and maintaining security, but isn't it also precisely the attitude we should want from Iraqis? A sense of national unity and an idea that they want a stable country, but don't want bloodshed to achieve it? After all, wasn't our country founded in a specific way so as to achieve regular bloodless transitions of power? If that's the goal Iraqis want to work towards more power to them. But that only works if they all agree to it. There's still all those folks in Najaf with guns.
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"I'm ready to fight for my country's independence and for my country's stability," one lieutenant colonel said. "But I won't fight my own people."
"No way," added another officer, who said his brother - a colonel - quit the same day he received orders to serve in the field. "These are my people. Why should I fight someone just because he has a difference in opinion about the future of the country?"
This is bad for us in that we want the new Iraqi army to be fighting insurgents and maintaining security, but isn't it also precisely the attitude we should want from Iraqis? A sense of national unity and an idea that they want a stable country, but don't want bloodshed to achieve it? After all, wasn't our country founded in a specific way so as to achieve regular bloodless transitions of power? If that's the goal Iraqis want to work towards more power to them. But that only works if they all agree to it. There's still all those folks in Najaf with guns.
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So now you are the ones saying what's good for them? The same ones that bombed Baghdad with uranium bombs, forbid basic necessities to enter the country for 12 years and brought their misery indexes near to zero? The effects of the UN actions, the bombings and the post-bomb effects (remember the war syndrome for the gulf war American soldiers? what do you think it's doing to Iraqi childs?) have killed much more innocent civilians that Saddam could have ever brought to death (with weapons sold by the American government and money by their allies in the zone the "Saudi" family dictatorship by the way).
And now you go there and want the people receive you like those who brought the freedom act like seeps to your commands. Much like you brought the death and want them to act to your interests.
And you are surprised they don't want to kill to their brothers and sisters? And talk all that bullshit about how to build up a "free" country. The same American colons that today put to their mass destruction weapons names from the exterminated indian towns like "tomahawk" or "apache".
Crazy
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