Iraq Facts

With an inaccuracy in the first line, I don't put much stock in the rest.

Let me put it starkly. If mercenaries came into my home and attacked and bullied, I would be inclined to do the same to them.

Put yourself for a minute in the shoes of say, a 21 year old Iraqi dude. This guy has no interest in religion having been brought up in Saddan's secular Baathist country, loves rock & roll and digs chicks. Like people his age he has aspirations, watches hollywood movies, hangs out.

Now your/this guy's life takes a dramatic and trumatic turn. Invasion. Big white guys strutting around like Rambos. The kid feels like dirt. Humiliated. He cannot walk on the street without one of these armed guys accosting him for a search. Then he hears about Abu Gharib. His people in a naked people pyramid. His pride in himself and his people is shattered. He is prevented from things he liked doing. His father has most probably been humiliated in a number of ways too, probably in front of him:
- body searches.
- home being stormed and searched
- lost job
- etc.

He watches the fear in his mother's eyes. Daily. His little sister cannot go to school. His friends have probably died. Family members to.

What will it now take to make this kid pick up a gun?

Think about it before you root for our next invasion.