Re: Stars and Stripes: "The whole city, from every side, was fighting"

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:26 AM -0500 12/31/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
> if a majority of Iraqis didn't want immediate withdrawal

It's only the polls sponsored by firms from the occupying nations
that said that "a majority of Iraqis didn't want immediate
withdrawal," and even those polls didn't say that Iraqis would want
to have their nation occupied longer than one or two years.  The Iraq
War will see its second anniversary on March 20, 2005.

In any case, the most important point is that, with the possible
exception of the Kurdish militia, few Iraqis are committed to
fighting for the continuing foreign occupation of Iraq.

At 4:06 PM +0000 12/31/04, Daniel Davies wrote:
> I doubt that the Viet Cong could have won an election in Southern
> Vietnam, but there were just about enough of them to make the US
> occupation unsustainable in the long term.

Politically, Vietnam and Iraq are not comparable (at least not yet).

"It was generally conceded that had an election been held, Ho Chi
Minh would have been elected Premier." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Mandate for Change, 1953-1956,
<http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam/55election.htm>
--
Yoshie

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