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Originally posted by badnarik@Feb 27 2005, 10:38 PM
i disagree with the idea that families of victims will be so hellbent on revenge that they will become terrorists.# is that what you would do?
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Well, lets look at the scenario:
Around 100 000 Iraqis dead, as a result of American fire (bombs, gunfire, etc) and the insurgents or 'terrorists' (suicide bombers, gunfire, etc).
So you basically have the American military and the insurgent/terrorist camp to blame for all those casualties. Now I know from our perspective we don't really blame the deaths caused by suicide bombers or insurgents on America. All things aside, America is the good guy from our perspective. However, it might (is probably) a different story from their side. Remember, no one was strapping bombs to themselves and blowing themselves up in crowded streets before Iraq was invaded. There weren't gun battles taking place everyday in many different locations in Iraq. There weren't any bombs dropping from the sky blowing things up. This is all new stuff to Iraq since the war started. Couple that with all the anti-Western propoganda that was spreaded under Saddam Hussein and it really makes America look worse than it is (and I am no way implying all Iraqi's are mindless drones that believed whatever the local 'media' was spewing before the second Iraq invasion).
Now I also realize Saddam was a bad guy and i'm sure many, many, many Iraqi's are glad he's gone as he was not afraid to kill his own citizens on purpose and in large numbers should he have ever felt the need too. Seems to me, though, that the killing brought about by Saddam has more or less simply been replaced by the killing brought on by the new and ongoing conflict in Iraq, the conflict that Bush and America started. This view may or may not be shared by a large number of Iraqi's I don't really know.
So, draw your own conclusions. After considering what I just typed I see it as really depending upon the person if they will essentially 'become a terrorist' out of hatred for America brought on by them being affected by the war. An insurgent kills one Iraqi's family member and that particular person blames the 'terrorists' while another person blames America for invading their country as the 'terrorists' are merely defending Iraq and it's soverienty.
I firmly believe that at least a substantial amount of terrorists have been created as a result of insurgent/American invoked casualties though...