Re: homes
Um, Greg, home is more than just a building.
The US has told them they intend to drop thousands of bombs on their cities, invade, and put them under a military dicatorship for at least a few years.
The Iraqi have been bombed before; they know what it's like. What do you think they're going to believe... "we blew up your homes ten years ago, but we're not going to do it this time, honest"?
The last time they had a war with the US, at least a hundred thousand Iraqi soldiers were killed in the bombing leading up to the retaking of Kuwait. You don't think the fact that over half the population of Iraq is under the age of fourteen just happened, do you? It's because the generation that is my age was largely wiped out in '91.
What's going to be better from their point of view, a military dicatorship run by a country on the other side of the world that has demonstrated major contempt for their faith on many occasions, or a military dictatorship run by someone local?
Finally, the Iraqi people have a completely different comprehension of what a US war on their soil will mean than most US citizens, thanks to the effects of depleted uranium ammunition on the inhabitants in places where it has been used. Instead of southern Iraq living under a cancer plague, it's going to be the whole country that will be living under a cancer plague, with no end in sight as the cancerous effects of DU ammunition lasts for several billion years. This different understanding is driven by direct experience; the average US citizen's understanding of this is driven by what they're told on TV. Which understanding do you think is more accurate?
Keeping all this in mind, if you were an Iraqi soldier, what would you do?
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