So, where are all the people who said that the Coalition forces was going to lose?

[rsnoble]

Excuse me before some asshole chimes in, "they're" dead.

 

[spongebob]

I don't remember anybody saying we were gonna lose.....There were a lot of predictions that urban warfare would result in heavy casualities (sp?). So far it didn't......but it was a very real possibility.

then you need some ginkoba for memory loss or you just dont pay very close attention to threads. the fact is that alot of people here and in the media predicted a much tougher battle that would take anywhere from 1yr to 5yrs.


I DO remember a lot of predictions that Saddam would resort to WMD as a last stand.....but he hasn't and nobody has found any.

i guess the scientist that actually worked for saddam are lying? why dont you go back to manning up the phone bank at the democratic party. you were wrong!

 

[Centurion]

personally, i never made any comments about who will win the war, but you can quote me on this - soon enough US forces will be running out of the cities for their dear lives.(after they are slowly picked off 1 by 1). why? lets analyze US popularity in iraq..we have
1. Sunnis-relatively most loyal to Saddam. most of who died are probably sunni, they will all have relatives killed by US
2. Shii- fundamentalist muslims, give them enogh time before they call jihad against us troops
3. Kurds - sorry, turns out after all, you cant have your state, we like Turkey better, but u still like us right (in fact u have to retreat now or we'll make you)
4. christians - the only thing keeping them alive in the middle of all the muslims was - SADDAM (was told this by ortodox christian iraqi who works with me, he's not too fond of saddam, but said Saddam was good to christians, and that 90% of muslims want to kill christians, also said the only thing that kept peace was a strong leadership figure)

Combine this with all the killings of civilians that will happen during the occupation, such as that van incident or REGULAR MISTAKE bombings such as this today in afganistan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2931297.stm
"The US military in Afghanistan says it has killed 11 Afghan civilians by mistake in an air attack. "

Conclusion=not too many happy iraqis+suicide bombings=US leaves iraq(maybe not oil fields).

US said they are there to stay, and i dont doubt they meant it, but only because of oil. Once they suffer enough casualties during the occupation, public opinion will prevail and they will be pulled out. The only thing that Iraqis are now free to do is loot useless crap from Saddam's regime, kill each other, and live in bombed out neighbourhoods. I already posted my prediction for post war iraq in one of "war sticky's" (based on post war kosovo), which is chaos, revenge killings, crimes, breeding for fundamentalist muslim terrorists (which saddam was afraid of and DIDNT support) clans& tribes at each others throats...

Now they are happy cause they can loot, may they cheer when they have 20 warlords instead of 1.

 

[Baby Gorilla]

How we could lose....

lol... how?

The issue of winning "the war" is larger than Iraq.

It is believed that WWIII (or WWIV) began on 9/11. Iraq is militarilly defeated.

However, we have yet to successfully set up a replacement government. That could fall apart. There's more going on over there that you know that could kill it ever working out.

Iraq, Syria, N. Korea, India, and Pakistan are future battles in this war. A lot more has yet to happen.

 

[Testosterone boy]

Re: How we could lose....

The issue of winning "the war" is larger than Iraq.

It is believed that WWIII (or WWIV) began on 9/11. Iraq is militarilly defeated.

However, we have yet to successfully set up a replacement government. That could fall apart. There's more going on over there that you know that could kill it ever working out.

Iraq, Syria, N. Korea, India, and Pakistan are future battles in this war. A lot more has yet to happen.

Iraq being a future battle in this war? How so?

I did not know we had a problem with India.


You say "it is believed that WWIII started with 9/11. Who is "it"?

 

[muscle_geek]

Damn! I'm one of the guys that got it right. Give me some Karma for being right and battling the anti-war, and the guys that said our strategy was flawed.

 

[Norman Bates]

Being able tp beat a rag-tag army doesn´t give that war any morally justification.
Most people i know never believed that Iraq would stand a chance against the US forces, the only thing surprising was the quick occupation of Bagdad. But for a moral justification a few things are, literally, missing and it is necessary to see how the Iraq will be treated in the future. Until then, the war may have been won , but nothing more.

 

[Imnotdutch]

I agree.......post quotes and names.

 

[Baoh]

Re: Re: Re: Uh....

All the anit-war activists and human shields, as a last stand for Saddam, come out of their hiding and with all their magical powers rain peace doves unto all the Coalition forces, pecking at them causing them all to leave Iraq. After that, all the hippies then rejoice under a candy-colored rainbow as they sing songs with Saddam as flowers fill the sky.

Bwaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha!

I laughed up a lot of Ramen due to your post. Excellent composition.