by Devilstower
In this lengthy story, Devilstower gets somewhat upset by the way that Charlie Gibson went about asking questions to the candidates. The taboo words spoken by Gibson suggested that last year's surge of 30,000 soldiers in Iraq has been a success. Devilstower doesn't buy it. She says that the reason that the war has been going well since the surge is because between then and now Genreal Petraeus has begun bribing the enemy. I think what Devilstower is referring to as wide scale bribery is "the civil war that will be fought with the dollars and training and weapons we have provided." Also what she is referring to is the fact that Sunni soldiers are allying themselves to the United States for a fee. Devilstower calls this bribery, I would call them mercenary soldiers. She calls giving weapons to the Iraqis bribery, I would call it funding the war.
A commenter to Devilstower's post recalled the ceasefire that ended the Vietnam War. Once the U.S. left, the North Vietnamese swept through the South and took over. The commenter believes that the reason there is not much fighting going on in Iraq at this very moment is because both sides have decided to wait for the Americans to leave. Once the Americans are gone the fight will continue and they will have saved the soldiers that they would have lost to the U.S. This sounds very plausible to me.
Another commenter boldly says that most Americans don't give a damn about whether or not there is a bloodbath in Iraq after we leave, and so we should just get out now and "cut and run." This is probably the same type of scumbag that counts every single American soldier death and uses the death toll as a reason why we should get out of Iraq. Yet, he also says who cares how many Iraqis die after we leave. It just doesn't add up.
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