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Edited on Mon May-30-05 12:01 PM by Hippo_Tron
We all know that the current US strategy in Iraq (or there lack of) isn't working. Training the Iraqi security forces keeps getting delayed and delayed and delayed which means that Bush refuses to set a date in which he will start withdrawing troops.
The problem is that the troops being in Iraq is what is causing the insurgency. They are hostile to having American tanks and American guns in the streets of their cities. To quote our idiot in chief "They don't like that they're occupied". The big question is, if we pulled out, would the insurgents try to overthrow the government? Bush obviously seems to think so, and on that point I agree. Although, Bush would have us believe that they want to overthrow the government because they hate freedom and democracy. I'll agree that they hate freedom and democracy but I don't think that, that's why they want to overthrow the government; they want to overthrow it because it is a Bush puppet regime and everybody knows it.
Obviously it isn't a good thing if Al-Zarqawi violently overthrows the government and installs another dictator (although that would certainly make America realize how stupid Bush is and how pointless this war is), but is preserving "democracy" worth the thousands of American and Iraqi lives that have and will continue to die for it?
My question is, could we pull our troops out of Iraq and ask the UN to come in and take over the security role and the oversight of the creation of their government. Will the insurgents be less hostile to UN peacekeeping forces than to US troops? Will they be less likely to overthrow the government if the UN is overseeing its creation so that they know that it is not a Bush puppet regime?
And I guess more importantly, would the UN even be willing to takeover this quagmire that we have created?
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