Where is the outrage?

[Leader]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents detonated three car bombs near a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad Thursday, killing 41 people, most of them children rushing to collect sweets from American troops.


However you feel about this war or how we got into it, I am dumbfounded that there is no outrage among the Iraqi people over what these "insurgents" (a euphemism at best) are doing to their country. Assuming that the majority of Iraqi people want American troops out of their country ASAP, you'd think the general population would be cooperating in every way possible to put a stop to all this mindless killing. Why they don't rise up and cast out all the terrorists among them is beyond comprehension. If they were ever going to do it, now is the time when our armed forces can help them restore some stability.
I'm starting to believe that, indeed, Iraq IS the least civilized country in the world and therefore democracy would never succeed there.
Whatever the Iraqi values are, personal responsibilty doesn't seem to be an important one. It's a miserable situation.

[StevoRocket]

Of course there is outrage - we just don't have it on our news programmes.

How would you feel if you lost a child to a bomb? - they feel the same - just as the people in Northern Ireland, Birmingham and London did during the IRA campaigns.

The trouble now is we have sound-bite fast video clip TV - with a nation which has no English language reporting channel on cable or satellite in Europe or the USA.

The News channels show the worst - not the best - of what the coalition are acheiving in Iraq.

The kids killed were at the reopening of a water treatment plant - who sanctioned that?
An obvious target and the kids were there.
Bloody stupid in my opinion.

[dd74]

I see plenty outrage on the news, so I don't know what channels you guys watch. Regardless of that, the Iraqis are dealing with people who look like them and act like them; and aside from foreign insurgents, some who are them. So in a crowd of alike people, it's hard to tell the one with the IED and RPG, or whatever.

Also, some citizens are threatened by the insurgents. Remember the last two beheadings? They had guards stationed outside their apartment buildings. But evidentially, the insurgents got hold of the guards and threatened them with their lives.

Of course some are just too scared to be outraged.

[A Quiet Boom]

Sad as it is these people have spent most of or all their lives under a brutal dictator, killing was the eorder of the day. An example for the US would be the drug dealers on our street corners, where is our outrage on these people who hurt our children? The answer is that we are either apathetic or just plain used to it so we do nothing. These people lived in a world where speaking out against evil meant torture or death, it will take some time for them to change their behavior. I do believe that as we get more and more Iraqi police and military this situation will change, muslims don't want to turn in criminals to non muslims.