Here is why even the United Nations can't get us out of this mess in Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3167291.stm

Analysis: Who bombed the UN?

<snip>Radical Islamists are fiercely hostile to the UN, which they see as giving a false legitimacy to US foreign policy.

But some Iraqi nationalists may have a similar view of the world body.

Iraqis deeply resented the stringent UN sanctions they suffered throughout the 1990s.

Many also saw the work of UN weapons inspectors as an infringement of their country's sovereignty.

So the attack could have had a nationalist or an Islamist motivation.

Although the immediate target was the UN, the attack's stark message was directed principally at the United States.

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[Old and In the Way]

1. Who really knows...............

And if this administration tells us who the perps are, will we believe them?

[NNN0LHI]

3. I think that was what this guy was trying to say?

It don't make no difference who it was. Could have been anyone. They all hate our guts at this point.

Don

[Jacobin]

2. yep

Infidels are no longer welcome in Iraq.

FuckYou very much for removing Saddam. Now, get the hell out of our country.

[xchrom]

4. it just is amazing to me

that we got to iraq via a guy who had to steal an election.
how did anybody expect this to turn out?

[NNN0LHI]

5. Kind of makes daddy Bush look like a genius for stopping at Baghdad in '91

[Philosophy]

6. Good point

I'd like to see the FReepers argue with that one.