"However, al Qaeda does not care who they kills, as long as they get to kill someone and make life difficult."
Do you actually mean this as written, or do you mean al Qaeda doesn't care what occupation force they kills?
Even at that, this is rank fucking bullshit, and I, for one, am sick of it. Al Qaeda COMIN' TA GIT YA!!! Al Qaeda LIVES TA KILL!!!! Al Qaeda GONNA CONQUER AMERICA!!!!
For starters, other than the word of the Great Truthteller In DC and his Ancillary Staff of Truth Tellers, what makes you think al Qaeda is operating in Iraq at all, let alone in such numbers as to wreak havoc everywhere? Those dickwads in DC have been trumpeting the AQ-SH connection now for THREE GODDAMNED YEARS, and the best evidence that they've ever presented is (1) a story that Zarqawi got his leg amputated in Baghdad, which story they had to retract (at least as to the amputation) because piece of evidence (2) is a videotape of a two-legged Zarqawi whacking off Nick Berg's head. Other than that, there's exactly ZERO EVIDENCE that AQ is operating in Iraq. So WTF are they doing in this thread/
Speaking of this thread, what makes you so sure your disaster scenario bears one tiny, itsy-bitsy bit of credibility. All you've done is assemble a parade of "those fucking 'rabs can't control themselves, and all they wanna do is get veins in they teeth, eat dead burnt bodies, and KILL, KILL, KILL!"
But what's the recent truth?? Early in the US occupation what was the state of resistance in Iraq? Huh??? There wasn't any, in case you missed it. Know why??? Because the crazy wild bloodthirsty Mullahs and Ayatollahs and Imams TOLD THEIR PEOPLE TO CHILL. And you know what?? THEY DID. The leaders, crazed Muslims to a man, told their people to give the US the chance to do the right thing -- y'know, get on with reconstruction and setting up democracy and that shit.
So when did the trouble start?? It did not start when the crazed Iraqis killed those poor men in Fallujah. It started when American troops spent a bit too much time shooting civilians and checkpoints, and it became clear that the amount of reconstruction going on in Iraq was, well, slim to none, unless you count reconstruction Halliburton's stock portfolio.
Now. I've made this challenge many times on this board, and I'll make it again, and I am absolutely confident that it will go as far with you as it has with anyone else, which is fucking nowhere.
Go to this website:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/iqtoc.htmlYou don't have to read the whole thing -- it's looooong and has LOTS of words -- just read the following sections: The sections of Chapter One from "Iraq as an Independent Monarcy" to the end of the chapter; and the subsection of Chapter Two called "Sunni-Shia Relations in Iraq."
Then get back to me and explain to me how it is that you're so certain that Iraq will explode into a maelstrom of violence if the Great and Effective Peaceful Peacekeeping Forces of the Peaceloving USofA withdraw their gentle peacekeeping ministrations.
Incidentally. The really interesting thing about the website I've referenced is this: if you'd like to dismiss it as some Saddam-hugging peacenik propaganda site, you'll have to get past the fact that it's the Library of Congress. Of course, also take into account that this history of Iraq was written in 1988, when Saddam was still a hero and defender of goodness and light in the otherwise troubled land of the Arabs.
In conclusion, I would just like to say this:
I am FUCKING SICK AND GODDAMNED TIRED of people making up worst-case scenarios about the pitiful wretches in Iraq and what they will do if "we" unleash their terrible passion and bloodlust.
In general, people who post on this board would, if their foot was getting wet, and the Fierce Warrior Chieftain said, "It's raining," AUTOMATICALLY ASSUME HE WAS PEEING ON THEIR FOOT. This is the most dishonest administration in the history of the USofA.
But on THIS ONE POINT (whatever a given poster's favorite point is--SH=Satan, or Iraqis can't wait to kill each other, or whatever), yes, dear friends, ON MY FAVORITE POINT, Donny Rumsfeld and Dicky Cheney, and that other guy--the one who can't talk--ARE TELLING ME GOD'S OWN GOSPEL TRUTH.
I'm sick of it.
As if anyone gives a good goddamn what I think.