“Baathists. Cry me a river”
Hang on...Baathists were the ones that ran things. Water, power, sewage, infrastructure...you had to be a Baath party member to have a good job. That’s why Al Qaeda is killing them off....then there’ll be no one with experience to make the country run. They’ve basically failed in defeating the US forces, so they’ve switched tactics...make US victory irrelevant by ensuring that Iraq is in chaos no matter what.
Yeah...back to the seventh century.
bttt
There is no indication Al-Qaeda is killing Baathists.
Those killing Baathists (particularly in Southern Iraq) are Shia militias (Badr and Mahdi).
The heart of the Insurgency was/is the Al-Qaeda+ hardcore Baathist cooperation.
Americans and other coalition members are training hordes of Iraqis in all of these infrastructure functions. It's essentially a whack-a-mole exercise for al Qaeda now.
The tide has turned.
Umm it not Al Qeda doing the killing here. Reread the story. Your assumptions are all wrong on this one.
“Hang on...Baathists were the ones that ran things. Water, power, sewage, infrastructure...you had to be a Baath party member to have a good job. That’s why Al Qaeda is killing them off....then there’ll be no one with experience to make the country run. They’ve basically failed in defeating the US forces, so they’ve switched tactics...make US victory irrelevant by ensuring that Iraq is in chaos no matter what.”
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Who cares? As long as they’re killing each other that’s fine by me. We should encourage them to decimate each other at every opportunity. We should be dropping pallets of small arms and ammo over each city. We owe these stinking pukes nothing. Too bad we couldn’t drag Saudi Arabia and Iran into the mayhem. I for one hope they stack ‘em like cord wood from horizon to horizon. These people are obviously too stupid to form a decent government....even with outside intervention. They’re lazy and deserve exactly what they’ve gotten. They’re not worth one single drop of American or allied blood.
Oh yea, did I mention who cares?
The minute we “leave” which in itself is inconceivable...that crap hole of a “country” will revert back to the same tribalism it’s enjoyed for the last 2000 years.
So be it.