Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> On 11/20/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 20, 2006, at 1:28 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> >
> > 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_)?
Doug is becoming an intellectual embarassment on this thread. The post in which he initiated the thread was juvenile, more appropriate to an Mpug than to someone who takes the trouble to think. His point here is about as profound as the solemn proposition that all black cats are, indeed, who would have thought of it, cats.
Read Bernard Fall, war correspondent who had been part of the French Resistance, who points out that the French resistance killed far more French citizens than it killed Germans. EVERY resistance to an occupation does that. To make a fuss about it is about as intelligent as making a fuss about four balls being a walk in baseball.
Any reasonably intelligent high-school sophomore should be able to figure out that under a savage and illegal occupation of a nation with its own internal divisions there is going to be unending horror, and no one nor no 5000 incidents of such horror show anything at all.
Grow up, Doug.
Carrol
Carrol