Hugo,

Very good link and the paragraph you posted. But, unlike you, I didn't hear any analysts saying possibilities of Iraqis killing each other at the rate they do now. We probably paid attention to different things. For the most part what I remember before the war is both republicans and democrats agreeing that Saddam probably has WMD. But democrats didn't want to go to war. And at the same time I remember many of those Iraqi dissidents trying to convince the public that US forces will be welcomed by the Iraqi people who are starving to free themselves from the tyranny of saddam and who long for democracy. Where are all those dissidents now? I think they should be hung by their you know what <g>. This is one thing that bothers me, that none of these analysts have the guts to put a great deal of blame for the war on the iraqis themselves who prove again (to me, as I had an experience to deal with them in the past) to be hypocritical, genocidal, fantastical, and stupid haters of all that is free and democratic.

But as Parcells says, it is what it is. We are in the war that most of the Americans don't want. If it were up to me, I would pull the troops out of Iraq today. This of course would create even more bloody civil war in Iraq which the world will blame on USA. So you damn if you do and damn if you don't. I saw a headline today in the local newspaper that the war is costing USA 2 billion dollars a week. Even if the number is exaggerated, it is still astonishing figure. And the worst of it that the world and the iraqi don't and won't appreciate it.


>Dmitry,
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>The problem with internet is that with too much information available, everything becames very difficult to find, but I clearly remember many analysts saying that this was a possibility, and I remember arguing others in other forums about it. May be something like this is what you want?
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>"In addition to possible ongoing guerrilla action by Saddam Hussein’s supporters, U.S. occupation forces would likely be faced with competing armed factions among the Sunni Arab population, not to mention Kurd and Shiite rebel groups seeking to break away from any ruler in Baghdad. This could lead the United States into a bloody counterinsurgency war. Without the support of other countries or the United Nations, a U.S. invasion could leave American forces effectively alone enforcing a peace amidst the chaos of a post-Saddam Iraq."
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>From http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/2002/08fallacies.htm#7
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>>Could you show ONE link to a news analysis or an article published before the invasion that indicates a threat of possible violence of iraqis-against-iraqis?