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You're barking up the wrong tree - they're not even in the same country ..........
What's with all this paranoia shit? Are they afraid to accept individuals for what they truly are?
Individuals!!
Hopefully it'll all die down soon, and they'll find out what splendid and different individuals we are.
Nobody seems to have a clue who's got Margaret Hassan btw - lots of suspicious rumblings going on
:yes:
What gets me is that she's not a contractor over in Iraq to make a quick buck, but someone who's been there for over 30 years helping others and even married an Iraqi man .. after 30 years there if they don't consider her to be one of their own I don't know what is.
I think the situation is such that doing nothing by the government doesn't help and neogoiating with the kidnappers is impossible.
The only thing I can think of is to say to the kidnappers for every person they kidnap and then kill the government will send over 1,000 more troops, so the kidnappers know they're only going to make their own lives more difficult by kidnapping and then killing people.
Strangely enough, she lived in Iraq for over 30 years without being kidnapped - theres a lesson to be learnt here - and its that trying to use brute force doesn't work - it makes the problem worse.
The troops already out there aren't properly equipped - and lord only knows where you think these thousands of troops will come from - they're already having to borrow the Black Watch so they can go kill some kids in Fallujah.
:rolleyes:
edited to add link to relevant article
This whole Iraqi debacle just exposes the hypocrisy that is inherent within all of those who would wish to wage war on 'our behalf'.
It's pathetic!
Very True about them being reluctant but it's certinly too late to retreat back to the UK and USA, these two country's leaders took it upon themselves to invade, so now it's their responability to clean up the resulting mess they've help create.
If they pull out now Iraq wil probably be in civil war for decades.
If they keep the status Quo then things probabaly won't change moe then it has now .. so only thing left is to go in stronger
Some more frm the article op cit
Its not getting better, its getting worse - 'WE' are hated - the longer 'we' are there, the worse it will get.
Britain and America are only interested in securing the oil, and privatising as much as possible.
"only thing left is to go in stronger" - Meet the new boss, just like the old boss
Blair is reduced to saying that "at least we got rid of a dictator" - now you want him to step into the breach ..........
on another note, i was debating with my friend whether contractors who go over there did it primarily 'to help rebuild iraq' or just for the pay packet, i personally think they do it mainly for the money but my friend disagreed........and thats because despite the risk and kidnappings so far they're still over there, they cant care that much about iraqis to risk their lives as civilians, as much as i would like to believe it.