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sisyphusshruggedDonald Rumsfeld, on "pacifying" Iraq
In case it isn't clear, this is how he feels what we're doing is going to reduce terrorism.
"Over time, you'll find that the process of tipping will take place, that more and more of the Iraqis will be angry about the fact that innocent people are being killed by the extremists, a number of them from outside the country, and they won't like it."
In case it isn't clear, this is how he feels what we're doing is going to reduce terrorism.
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Date: 2004-11-08 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-11-08 10:52 pm (UTC)Ask yourself, though - which foreigners killing civilians do you suppose this is going to tip the iraqi people against?
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Date: 2004-11-08 10:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-08 11:34 pm (UTC)Of course, if they do get hurt, it must be their fault.
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Date: 2004-11-08 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-11-09 06:33 am (UTC)Everyone from off of the streets!"
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Date: 2004-11-08 10:50 pm (UTC)Ooh. My red state snark is getting bad.
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Date: 2004-11-09 06:28 am (UTC)i think we need to start a program whereby everyone sends him a copy of the "fog of war" dvd for christmas.
Wow - I read that and thought we were the outside extremists....
Date: 2004-11-09 10:07 am (UTC)In the words of my moniker Padraig Pearse "The fools, the fools, they've left us our Fenian Dead"
The authors of Ireland's Easter 1916 Uprising were initially rebuffed by most of their fellow citizens. It was the heavy handed response of the British in pacifying the rebellion that "tipped" the nation in favour of the 1916 Proclamation and lead to Ireland's bloody civil war in the early 1920s