http://www.zeitgeistzephyr.com/2006/11/29/moving-on-in-iraq/ Spirit of the Westward Wind Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:45:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.zeitgeistzephyr.com/2006/11/29/moving-on-in-iraq/#comment-7 Anonymous Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:03:00 +0000 http://www.zeitgeistzephyr.com/2006/11/29/moving-on-in-iraq/#comment-7 The humane thing to do in Iraq is to ask the Iraqi citizens what they would like done. Of those polled, 80% preferred a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal. 5% would keep the present situation. It seems to be an unpopular situation to be invaded and destroyed by "liberators" and be colonized.<br/> Back after WWI, England and France divided up the middle east among themselves, the U.S. was indifferent then."The British <br/>suffered 450 dead in the Iraqi insurgency and more than 1500 wounded.In that summer of 1920, T.E. Lawrence-Lawrence of Arabia-estimated that the British had killed"about 10,000 Arabs in this rising. We cannot hope to maintaintain such an average..." Feisal, third son of the Sherif Hussain of Mecca,was proclaimed constitutional monarch by a "Council of Ministers" in Baghdad on July 22,1922 and a referendum gave him a laughably impossible 96% of the vote, a statistic that would become wearingly familiar in the Arab world over the next eighty years. He was neither an Iraqi nor a member of the Shias of Iraq. It was the the first betrayal of the Shias of Iraq. There would be two more within the next 1oo years."-Pages 145-148,"The Great War For Civilisation-the conquest of the middle east" by Robert Fisk, 2005. The humane thing to do in Iraq is to ask the Iraqi citizens what they would like done. Of those polled, 80% preferred a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal. 5% would keep the present situation. It seems to be an unpopular situation to be invaded and destroyed by “liberators” and be colonized.
Back after WWI, England and France divided up the middle east among themselves, the U.S. was indifferent then.”The British
suffered 450 dead in the Iraqi insurgency and more than 1500 wounded.In that summer of 1920, T.E. Lawrence-Lawrence of Arabia-estimated that the British had killed”about 10,000 Arabs in this rising. We cannot hope to maintaintain such an average…” Feisal, third son of the Sherif Hussain of Mecca,was proclaimed constitutional monarch by a “Council of Ministers” in Baghdad on July 22,1922 and a referendum gave him a laughably impossible 96% of the vote, a statistic that would become wearingly familiar in the Arab world over the next eighty years. He was neither an Iraqi nor a member of the Shias of Iraq. It was the the first betrayal of the Shias of Iraq. There would be two more within the next 1oo years.”-Pages 145-148,”The Great War For Civilisation-the conquest of the middle east” by Robert Fisk, 2005.

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