FD:

"ordinary citizens do not wire up car bombs and try to kill their own police force."

They sure do when they have been invaded by history's most powerful military ever, and the local police capitulate with that military. It's also the case that the Sunni's don't care for the Shi'ites, and vice versa, and they are trying to reduce each other's power. Sunni's are minority, Shi'ites are majority; Saddam was a Sunni and they are jealous of losing that power.

"you make it sound like we are going around and executing men, women and children. ridiculous!"

White Phosphorous. 27,636 Iraqi civilians killed. "Shock and Awe". Women and children killed? Yes.

"we are trying to keep all the iraqi people from killing themselves, which they seem to be doing very well."

debatable point.

"when you look at these car bombing weasel dicks, look at the ratio of Americans killed to the % of iraqis killed."

2,174 US : 27,636 Iraqi

Honestly FD, if another nation invaded the US and tried to occupy, I would wire cars to explode against them and any capitulators myself.
Am I a weasel dick? Or a patriot?


"they're not targeting us but their own police force and political figures. why? because they know that if the new government succeeds, they will have 1 less country less that they can promote their anti-anyone but Muslim campaign.
sounds pretty racist to me!"

Also, the police are perceived to be capitulating with the US invaders and the puppet government. Initially the 'new government' was perceived to be capitulators as well (like the French Vichy government in WWII), but also there are factors on the ground that we observers do not understand.

One fact is that Iraq was a "nation" forced together by the British in 1917, which would not have otherwise been a single nation. Currently the opposing forces within that artificial nation are working against each other to gain control for themselves. E.g. the Kurds have set up a de facto Kurdistan in the north. The Sunni's are fighting hard because the majority Shi'ites, in a democracy, will control the politics and the oil in the southern lands. Since the Sunnis were in power under Saddam, they don't want to lose their power and abilities, but probably will.

So that is why "Iraqis" (which, again, is an imperialist fiction created by the Brits) are fighting against each other, as well as against their "liberators", the USA.

Incidentally, here's a quote from the British invaders of 1917, Lt. Gen Sir Stanley Maude: "We have come here not as conquerors but as liberators to free you from generations of tyranny."

Uh huh. When huge power claims to be liberators, never believe them.