60 killed and 100 wounded in Baghdad today.....

[kentuck]

Why can't they report all the positive stuff happening over there? But I think most or all of the women and children killed were Iraqi so it is of no concern to us...

[Nicholas_J]

1. Because

There is so litle positive that is happening or being done that is seems scarecely worth mentioning.

You living here comfortably in the U.S. are in NO position to decide what being done in Iraq is either good or bad. Only the Iraqi people can be allowed to be the judges as to whether what is happening in Iraq is being done FOR them or TO them.

Right now more than one percent of the Iraq population has been killed as a result of the U.S. war in Iraq. The percentage of people who are acting as insurgents fighting the U.S. "liberation" forces constitutes more than three times the percentage of the Iraqi population as does the U.S. military forces is a percentage of the U.S. poplation. That is to say three times as many Iraqis have joined in to militarily fight against the U.S. invasion of Iraq as Americans who have chosen to join the American Military.

SO the only way to determine if what is happening in Iraq right now is a good thing or a bad thing is to look at how the average Iraqi seems to be reacting to the American presence in Iraq. Based on all of the world media, the the Iraqi's by and large view the U.S. invasion as something that has been imposed on them, not something being done for their benefit.

The Iraqi's have been used to authoritarian forms of government for ages. They seem to view the American overthrow of the Baath Regime as one authoritarian government taking the place of another.

They would, it seems prefer, their own bad government, to the good government of an alien, occupying power.

So would any people.