If you were an Iraqi, would you fight the invaders?

[trumad]

Simple question....

[StraightDope]

1. Yes. Yes I would...

I'd also fight against anyone who invaded THIS country for that matter.

[Greyhound]

2. After it became clear that they were just in my country to loot our

national wealth, and not to "liberate" us, I wouldn't hesitate to blow some of them up.

[sweetheart]

3. No, i would have left iraq long ago

Or i'd be dead.

[genie_weenie]

4. Are you a Kurd or a

Sunni Arab or a Shia Arab or a Turcoman or an Assyrian? Because these groups are not marching in lockstep as "Iraqis". They are not saying "We are all Iraqis" this day...

Sorry for not answering the simple question.

[sutz12]

5. Which ones....

by invading we opened their borders to al Qeada and who knows what other terrorist groups. I hear the Iranians are infiltrating mightily.

I suppose you mean us, and I probably would, especially after I found out that the US has no intention of treating them like human beings.

[question everything]

6. And who are the invaders?

They do not fight the Americans, or the Brits. They kill and torture each other.

While there may have been 60 American soldiers killed in September, there were about 1,000 Iraqis. (Yes, the numbers are an approximation, I should know them, but I don't.)

If they really wanted to kick out the invaders, they would unite and tell Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld: thanks, but please leave now.

[chat_noir]

7. Tony Snow called it an "occupying army" in this morning's press conference

Helen.

Q Change of subject, but not venue. The Washington Post is carrying a series of polls saying that the Iraqi people most affected by our so-called war want us out, want us out of Iraq. What is the President's reaction?

MR. SNOW: Not really surprised. I mean, nobody wants to have an occupying army. It's understanding that when you have an army on your soil, that you want them out. But on the other hand, the Iraqi government has made it clear, and you've heard statements by Prime Minister Maliki, and now President Talabani, as recently as last week, saying, don't leave until the job is done.

We understand the sentiments of the Iraqi people and we'd love to be out of there as soon as possible, but you have to have the end state --

Q Well, do they count?

MR. SNOW: Of course, they count -- and one of the reasons why their elected officials want us to stay is that they don't want them subjected to tyranny. They want the ability to win the battle of terror on Iraqi soil. So the President does understand it. It's also interesting, Helen --

Q -- on Iraqi soil. We want it on Iraqi soil.

MR. SNOW: Let me just finish the -- I'm sorry, what?

Q I said, the question of winning, we declared Iraq a central front and so forth -- we want it there, instead -- and they want out.

MR. SNOW: Well, no, we didn't declare Iraq the central front, bin Laden did.

Q Yes, we did.

MR. SNOW: Bin Laden declared it the central front in the war on terror. But we're quibbling here. They want us out. Yes, of course. The Europeans wanted us out after World War II. We ended --

Q Why do we stay there?

MR. SNOW: The reason we're staying is that we have made a commitment to providing a government -- a democracy --

Q A commitment to whom?

MR. SNOW: To the people of Iraq and to their government, a government than can sustain itself, defend itself, and govern itself. And we are continuing --

Q We invaded that country.

MR. SNOW: Please, please, we're getting into the heckle zone here. The point is that the government has asked us and you have now had a Shia prime minister and a Kurdish President saying, stay, finish the job.

[DemInDistress]

8. I fight the bastards with a passion....leave my oil alone...

its ours not yours.... its why we're in Iraq in the first place. control of the world's 2nd largest oilfields.


no one knows how much the USA has stolen, un-metered oil for the greedy and corrupt.

simple answer to your simple question.

[MethuenProgressive]

9. No, 'cuz I would've died fighting Reagan/Rumsfeld's Saddam

And that's a fact.

[Karenina]

10. Is this a trick question?

:freak:

[nealmhughes]

11. Were I a Christian, I would be in Syria awaiting a outlet visa or else in

Kurdistan. Were I a Kurd, I would be developing my nation in Arbil and Mosul. Were I a Sunni, I would try to get a job abroad, even in Saudi Arabia or Syria, same for the Shiites. I would have left Baghdad so long ago it would have been ridiculous, even had I to walk to Damascus or Beirut or Amman and plead to be let in.