Care to contrast that to a week before the war? Stop wasting time. If you have an argument, research it first.
I've already refuted your argument (The fastest way to get US forces out of the country is to stop opposing the effort to rebuild an Iraqi government). I guess reading >> you.
As for research, what exactly is there to research about my assertion that bringing in the UN will get US troops out? Is common sense + higher math really that difficult for you? Other troops being dispatched from other UN countries = less troops the US needs to commit. Pretty simple isn't it?
As for comparison/contrast:
1.Their infrastructure wasn't in complete shambles prior to being bombed the fuck out of.
2. Plans to restore basic neccesities (ie, electricity, sanitation, water and
jobs) are obviously lacking.
3.Iraq was perhaps the most socially advanced country in the ME. Their women made up half of the working population and enrollment in schools. Now most women don't dare to go outside without the support of 1 or more male family members for fear of reprisal from fundies. In many instances, educated, professional Iraqi women are either being killed or having their lives threatened if they don't stay out home like they are supposed to.
From an Iraqi woman's
blog:
Over a month ago, a prominent electrical engineer (one of the smartest females in the country) named Henna Aziz was assassinated in front of her family- two daughters and her husband. She was threatened by some fundamentalists from Badir’s Army and told to stay at home because she was a woman, she shouldn’t be in charge. She refused- the country needed her expertise to get things functioning- she was brilliant. She would not and could not stay at home. They came to her house one evening: men with machine-guns, broke in and opened fire. She lost her life- she wasn’t the first, she won’t be the last.
So thus the "liberators" have become the catalyst by which Iraqi society is set back at least 50 as the fundamentalists are rapidly pressing to become the majority.
