Originally posted by DrGonzo:
I pose a few questions for anyone with current or past military service.

Do you feel that some of our problems in planning and handling the "post-war" situation could be a direct result of our military having the institutional mindset of being liberators, and not occupiers?

Do you feel that you were suitably trained for duty as an occupier in a hostile environment?

Do you believe that the Pentagon is comfortable with this occupational role?

I am just trying to get some insight. Thanks.





The U.S. does not want to occupy Iraq. The problem is with the insurgents. I think the U.S. would already be getting ready to leave Iraq if the Insurgents would let them stabilize things. As much as I hate to say it, I think the U.S. did not like Saddam thumbing his nose at the U.S. agreement that he had agreed to keep back when he invaded Kuwait.

I found this information about terrorism and I think it is true;
The enemy is Islamism, a terroristic version of Islam. Islamism is the totalitarian root of the problem; terrorism is only a symptom, an instrument of war used by Islamists to achieve their objectives. Once these facts are understood, it becomes clear that the struggle is ultimately one of ideas and armies, not of law enforcement or religion.

Here is a post from another website from a person who I believe has been listening to too much insurgent propaganda. I don't agree with this person. I support our government and our troops. I think our government is a good government.;

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According to figures from iraqbodycount.net a minimum of 11,793 Iraqi civilians (including many women and children) have now been killed as a result of US and UK military intervention in Iraq since March 2003. 7,350 of these deaths came about during the major combat phase.

I write this because of the general upsurge in feeling towards terrorism. I site what the United States and the United Kingdom have done to the Iraqi people as being as bad, if not worse than terrorism. As some people say terrorism is ââ?¬Ë?evilââ?¬â?¢, I then also say, the governments of the US and UK are equally evil and more so!

The US with the UK in agreement has stealthily colonised and gained control of parts of the Middle East with the intention of gaining oil supplies. Do you think that the Arab and Muslim peoples of this land are just going to bow down and let this happen? This is their land, why should they be dictated to and oppressed by distant foreign powers? Do you think Arabs and Muslims are going to like the US supporting Israel�s extermination of Palestine and the Palestinians? There lie the major reasons for terrorism from the Middle East and in my view they are just reasons. They are at least as just as reasons for the start of any war around the world. In my view there has never been terrorism here, it is being used as another name for WAR. I don�t condone either terrorism or war, but in this case I find it hard to distinguish between the two.