Iraqis must want success more than we
I was just wondering —who wants Iraq to succeed more, the U.S. administration or the Iraqi people? The answer is clear to me, and regrettably it is the U.S. administration.
I say this with despair because the administration will not (or cannot) make the Iraqi government stand up to its responsibilities and duties.
Instead we send more troops and bullets, and won’t hold the Iraqi government accountable for its many, many failures over the last year. When they want their country more than we do, they stand a chance, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon, even though we have told them we are gone soon if they don’t clean up their act (please see the Iraq supplemental bill).
Dave Beer, Denver
Dave,
The reason that we "cannot make the Iraqi government stand up to its responsibilities and duties" is because those are the "responsibilities and duties" that we have assigned to it. Not theirs. The people of Iraq owe no loyalty to the puppet government...indeed it is their responsibility and duty not to participate in the rape and pillage of their country. Would you cooperate with a government installed by, say... north korea? I know, I know, many of you posters will say "but it is an elected government" That is hogwash and vote fraud. The current government is being imposed on them, no matter what the rationale you hear from Washington.