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Originally posted by Gattigap
I hope that you're right, Bilmore, but recently their casualness has been highlighted by bombing the shit out of each other.
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Not really "each other", which is what gives me hope. You've got the select Baathist ex-Saddam henchshits who still can't get used to the idea that they've lost the country they owned for so long. They'll eventually be killed off, or give up and join the more common non-shithead Baathists annd try to be a part of society. Then you've got the foreigners who simply see Iraq as the flashpoint for the anti-U.S jihad. More and more Iraqis are telling them to stay away, or leave, and more and more of them are getting blown away by common Iraqis, and so I think the flashpoint thingie will end gradually over the next year.
I know several people working in the country right now on infrastructure, and everything they tell me points to huge improvements everywhere, structurally and societal, and they talk with disbelief (and a lot of anger) about the level of vitriol and misinformation that seems to pervade the MSM reporting of Iraq right now. I get a lot of my optimism about Iraq from them, and I think I'll believe them more than ten coastie reporters who have already expressed hatred for all things Bush.
