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Originally posted by Jakomo
They actually had things far better under Saddam.
These days there is hardly any electricity, hardly any fresh water, and the streets are far less safer (there is now an explosion of street crime in Iraq). US troops are regularly killing Iraqi civilians by mistake (at checkpoints, etc), and people don't feel safe.
They might have had a terrible system under Saddam, but they knew where they stood. Now, they have a foreign occupier (who coincidentally has been the main culprit in 12 years of crippling UN sanctions against their people) and the Americans don't even treat them with any respect.
Go figure why they are pissed off. As terrible and injust as Saddam's rule was, he was one of THEM. The U.S. has no experience in this type of nation-building, they should get the hell out and let the UN clean up after their war crimes.
Just like always.
As far as the public at large attacking the troops, that isn't the case at all. A small minority are doing, an unknown number of those are foreigners who've come into Iraq to cause the Great Satan problems, and this does not reflect the populace as a whole. If the public as a whole were unhappy, more than a couple a day would be killed or injured. Even if they were impatient as Heck, they'd be rioting and protesting heavily and without the whipping of religious clerics.