High Death Toll in Iraq Suicide Attacks...again!

[Hanren]

Wala na ba talaga katapusan ito? I think it does not make sense anymore that a lot of people (adults and children) are dying and miserable while the world watches helplessly..We don't hear the Iraqi peolple's stories a lot but we know that there are living in fear and in misery..

Just today, at least 175 people (or more) died in four suicide truck bombs attacks in (URL: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakin...ticle_id=82660)

tsk...its already a normal part of the daily news. It seems we've gotten used to this scenes already. Nakakasawa at nakakainis na rin.

[niky]

Well, what can we do?

A lot of advisors and a lot of foreign governments gave their reservations about going into Iraq before the war started, and all they received from the ultra-right wingers surrounding Bush at the time was derision, contempt and ridicule.

Now that Iraq has turned into such a muddle, a breeding ground for terrorism (which it actually wasn't, previously, Osama never liked Saddam) and a local hotspot... now that Saddam is no longer around to balance the political and military influence of Iran... now, more than ever, the US needs help from the international community to restore balance to Iraq.

Good luck getting it. Even with the staff changes Bush has implemented, putting more moderate people into position, people friendlier towards other countries... a lot of people are still pissed at the US, and still don't support the war. Not to mention the fact that Bush has lost majority in the Houses, which is hindering him from sending more troops over, and the fact that some of those staff changes include people who are so anti-war, they didn't even support humanitarian efforts in Somalia and Yugoslavia.

In simple terms: when they shouldn't have gone to war, they did. And now that they need to finish off the insurgents and terrorists, everyone's so sick of fighting that nobody really feels like doing it, anymore.

[torque2006]

And they're having problems again. Their army is stretched too thin around the world, with China starting a military buildup to challenge US dominance in the Pacific.

[Altis6453]

Bush and his war hungry advisers don't want to admit that it was a mistake to go into Iraq. Well, Americans made his party pay for it by electing a Democratic-dominated House of Representatives. I hear the Dems are pushing hard for the White House to come up with a timetable for the exit of American armed forces in Iraq, otherwise, they'll face a showdown when budget time comes.

[uls]

Bush and his advisers thought it was going to be as easy as when the US freed Kuwait back in 1991

They thought it was gonna be quick.

They thought after they remove Saddam from power, the Iraqi people would rejoice and establish a new govt and rebuild their country... using funds from oil revenues.

haha!

wrong!

[Monseratto]

Halos lahat ng advisors na nagtulak kay Dubya sa Iraq are out already. Si DICK Cheney na lang ata na iwan dahil VP siya. A lot of Americans would rather run away from this mess, pero may konsensya naman si Dubya na wag iwanan. Pero kagaya ni ex-PM Tony Blair, Dubya's legacy is already sealed in with this quagmire. He is rated as one of the worst Presidents in US history.