Lilly
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rono - they are getting warm a welcome home.
why do you think they're getting a cold reception?
why do you think they're getting a cold reception?
It is not only the flowers that they will get on the day that they come home,...it is the support they need after a couple of months.Lilly said:rono - they are getting warm a welcome home.
why do you think they're getting a cold reception?
Despite the deaths of Saddam Hussein's sons, some Iraq experts fear attacks against U.S. troops will persist even if the ousted Iraqi leader himself falls into American hands.
Those fears are based on doubts that all the attacks have been personally directed by Saddam and his sons Odai and Qusai. At least 11 American soldiers have been killed by hostile fire since the brothers died in a raid on a house in Mosul on July 22.
The goal of the resistance, some experts fear, has widened beyond restoration of the old regime and may be attracting followers, perhaps including Islamic extremists, who are motivated by their hostility to foreign military occupation.
That leads to the suspicion that some resistance would persist even if Saddam himself were killed or captured. Al-Baghdadi, of the University of Kuwait, believes some of the attacks are carried out by "scattered cells of nationalistic Arabs who come from Syria and the crazies who went to Iraq from Iran."
He predicted resistance would last "as long as there are fundamentalists seeking martyrdom."
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Khalidi believes it is a mistake to assume that opposition to the American role equates with support for Saddam. He noted that since the war began March 20, "everybody was pretty much happy to see (the regime) go and nobody was happy with the U.S."
Marr predicted that as a coalition best case scenario, U.S. troops would gradually wear down the resistance over time but that sporadic attacks may continue as long as American soldiers remain in Iraq.
"We're not going to see a popular uprising because that would be crushed but what I do expect to see is more of these hit-and-run attacks," Khalidi said by telephone.
entire article here on Yahoo/AP
Lilly said:where does osama bin laden come in?
saddam and osama weren't friends.
the invasion of iraq wasn't an invasion of al-quaeda or a shakedown on osama.
A former national security official in the Bush administration tells NBC News Senior Investigative Correspondent Lisa Myers the White House was warned that the buildup against Saddam might provide a respite for Osama bin Laden and his henchmen. ?There were decisions made,? says Flynt Leverett, a former director at the National Security Council in the Bush White House, ?to take key assets, human assets, technical assets, out of theater in Afghanistan in order to position them for the campaign to unseat Saddam.?
Leverett, a former senior CIA analyst, talks with the professorial precision of an academic. ?We see today,? he says, ?that al-Qaida has been able to reconstitute leadership cells in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region and it would seem in Eastern Iran.?
more at MSNBC
Lilly said:at any rate - there still isnt' a direct connection between bin ladn and saddam, regardless of the different battles being fought under the same name. and insinuating that they're in cohorts or whatever is innaccurate.
Lilly said:it's not like saddam isn't a terrorist to his own people.
so i guess that's where it "fits in" in the war on terrorism.