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Where is the outrage?
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.
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