rollingstone.com — Rolling Stone looks at the mechanics behind the American arming of former elements of the Iraqi insurgency. "The Americans are donkeys," one boy says. "When they are here we say, 'I love you,' but when they leave we say, 'f**k you.'"
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jojomomoMar 7, 2008
From the article:"The only reason anything works or anybody deals with us is because we give them money," says a young Army intelligence officer. "We are essentially supporting a quasi-feudal devolution of authority to armed enclaves, which exist at the expense of central government authority," says Chas Freeman, who served as ambassador to Saudi Arabia under the first President Bush. "The Americans are donkeys," one boy says. "When they are here we say, 'I love you,' but when they leave we say, 'f**k you.'"“Arkan knows that the U.S. "surge" has succeeded only in exacerbating the tension among Iraq's warring parties and bickering politicians. The Iraqi government is still nonexistent outside the Green Zone.”
billyjack1958Mar 10, 2008
The Iraqis want us Out of there....and our soldiers want to come home. It's a no-brainer!