[lbo-talk] the Iraqi resistance at work

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 11/20/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 20, 2006, at 1:28 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>
> > Wasn't it Tariq Ali in your own interview who was saying that such
> > fanatic tactics were way too much represented in the western media
> > while the actual resistance was totally downplayed ?
>
> He did. But compare the death tolls. The resistance, or the sectarian
> militias, or freelancers, whoever have killed many times more Iraqis
> than it/they have killed US soldiers.

Isn't that because Washington has outsourced the work of occupation to
Iraqis, fomented sectarianism through the sectarian elections, and
failed to control Iraq's borders, so Iraq has become a magnet for
international jihadists (Saddam Hussein would never have allowed
_that_)?
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Yoshie
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