Why does BushCo refuse to maintain law and order in Iraq?

[DoYouEverWonder]

We are spending over a billion dollars a week in Iraq. Iraq is about the same size has Texas and the population numbers are also similar, about 25 million people.

You would think that for a billion dollars a week, maintaining law and order wouldn't be that big a deal. That it would be the least we could do.

The only reason why Bush and Rummie can't maintain law and order in Iraq is because they don't want to. They'ld much rather keep Iraq in a state of chaos. They need this war more then anyone else. It is the only way they can achieve their goals. The big question is, how much longer before Bush and Rummie turn America into an occupied country? How much longer before we too become a military state where chaos reigns?

[BlueEyedSon]

1. More chance for excess profits in chaos. Same rule applies to NOLA

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. don't forget the convenience factor. Provides them with cover and fodder

problem is, part of that fodder is measured in human lives, US and Iraqi. But lest you get confused, please recall just how many cemetaries Bush has visited (1); just how many hospitals he visited for a photo-op (1) and just how many burial ceremonies or meet and greet mourning families (1). Oh wait, he also had a very successful meeting with some moms in the White House. I wonder how that turned out.
(Thank the world for your, Ms. Sheehan)

It is convenient for them to create unrest, then claim we can't leave, THEN claim that since we are fighting there, we "fight them there to prevent from fighting them here" or some such nonsense. And THEN, manage to pour even more billions in no bid contracts to their cronies.

It is a sick, seemingly endless cyclical journey to death, destruction and debt.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. That is because they are filled with darkness

All they know and love is death and destruction.

They are far more dangerous then any of their bogeymen.

[leveymg]

2. Why didn't Al Capone maintain law&order in Chicago?

In DC, we're still waiting for that prosecutor to clean up the city.

[Junkdrawer]

4. By virtue of "Intelligence Failures" (lies) BushCo got our army there...

By virtue of "Civil Unrest" (see Basra incident) our army stays.

Why, you might get the idea that they want our army there. :think:

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. They have to have 'civil unrest'

in order to justify their commitment to stay. So of course, then it is their best interest to make sure there is 'civil unrest'.

If we just went away and let in UN peacekeepers, I bet Iraq could be in peace within the year.

[Jacobin]

7. Somehow I don't think the Iraqi's idea of 'law and order'

consists of having a bunch of infidel yahoos riding around in tanks, stealing their oil and torturing their citizens.

I would think the same thing would happen in America if for instance we were invaded by the Chinese and forced to have their form of government.

I know I wouldn't stand for it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. The place is a sewer. No one can maintain law and order there.

Which is another good reason why we should not be there in the first place.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Iraq was a lovely country before we destroyed it

The Iraqi people had some of the highest levels of literacy and women had more freedom then in most arab countries. Suicide bombers were unheard of in Iraq before the US invaded.