Comments on: Intel Report: Iraq Challenges "Daunting"

NIE: Inadequate Iraqi Forces, Sectarian Fighting Makes Situation Tough To Improve

[exusmcsgt]

Sadly this is why Sadam ruled the way he did because that's the only way to keep them in line and the only way he knew. They just dod not value life, well at least most of them.
Posted by luvNY at 08:47 AM : Feb 02, 2007

I disagree a might, luv, with your assessment. They value life, in my opinion, much as we do. The problem is their intolerance with each other's religious beliefs.

Tito had a similar situation in the former Yugoslavia. He kept it cobbled together though an iron-fisted dictatorship. When he died, Yugoslavia disentegrated.

Planning to topple Hussein was a strategy that was guaranteed to produce the exact same results in Iraq.

Whoever formulated this boondoggle was not a history buff, to say the least.

[observantx]

Well, DUH!

Like the majority of the country hasn't figured that out yet.

Now it's time for GeorgenDick and the rest of the Rovettes to get it too.

[zoroastor]

No control in Iraq?
Really?
No $H!T Sherlock!
Well, I spent a year there as part of the original invasion force and I can tell you we NEVER had any control in Iraq.
Spending lives, spending money, buying votes.

[grumpas]

A lot of us knew this little tidbit before Bush ever invaded them! It was the same way with the old Yugoslavia! They won't curb the violence in Iraq until they start with Saddam's tactic's either! Bush really opened a can of worms this time!

[rafterman1]

"Sectarian strife will never end in Iraq."

Unless a new dictator forces everyone together. Get rid of one Sadaam, another will just pop up in his place.

[luvny-2009]

Sadly this is why Sadam ruled the way he did because that's the only way to keep them in line and the only way he knew. They just dod not value life, well at least most of them.

[exusmcsgt]

"However, he cautioned that stability depended on bringing an end to sectarian violence and fighting all extremist elements."

Talking about stating the obvious! Sectarian strife will never end in Iraq. It will degenerate into secular states regardless of how many warriors and how much treasure we waste.

Continued investment of both will only temporarily stave of a foregone conclusion.