🚀 go-pugleaf

You may bet that every day the first words of news from Iraq would
mention a new car bombing.  Nobody seems to notice that in the whole
history of mankind, you can not recall anything even close to this
situation.  There were some suicide bombers in Israel, but it does not
happen there even once a month.  In Iraq, it is every day.  What is so
unusual about it?  Well, you have to have a car, then you have to have
a supply of explosives, then you need to have information on when and
where a US convoy would go or Iraqi police would congregate.  Last, but
not least, you need to have a human being ready to kill himself.  How
exactly do they manage all this?  The only way this could happen - vast
majority of the local population supports it.

This war remind me of another one: against Hitler. Russian people has a
lot in common with Iraquis: they were also brutalized by a dictator and
they allowed it with little or no resistance.  Some even welcomed
Hitler upon invasion, but very soon the whole population raised against
the invaders.  Exactly the same, as Iraqis, their target were
collaborators, they called them "polizai".  They were hated more, than
Germans and they were exterminated whetever possible.

Russian Resistance called themselves "partizans"; they infiltrated
German institutions by pretending to be collaborators and then
channeled important information back to "partizans" in the surrounding
forests, which helped them to organize attacks on Germans and real
collaborators.  It is absurd to presume that Zarquawi is the one who
coordinates all the attacks.  He is no more responsible than Stalin was
for coordinating "partizans".  Russian people raised against invaders
and they did their fight locally the best they could.  Even if you kill
Zarquawi tomorrow, nothing will change: attacks on Americans and their
collaborators will not slow down.

American administration (with the help of corrupt media) is trying to
convince the public that it is the foreigners, who blow themselves up,
while local Iraqis love and support Americans.  Come on, a foreigner
has to cross the border, bring with him a car full of explosives, pass
through all check points to Baghdad, get information on the place and
timing of a US convoy and get there.  This can not be done without help
of local population, which can very easily spot a foreigner and report
him to authorities.  Obviously, they do not do it: we did not hear of a
single case of such an apprehension.

On the other hand, if foreigners really play a significant role in the
insurgency, this brings yet another parallel from the history: civil
war in Spain against Fascists of General Franco.  There were
international brigades, people were coming from all over the world to
fight fascism.  Hemingway was one of them.

As Hitler completely did not understand Russian mentality, so Bush does
not understand Iraqis and American people will be the one, who will pay
dearly for all this.

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