Can someone please tell me how an Iraqi father knows if the US soldiers at his door are there...

[NNN0LHI]

...looking for some Al-Qaeda suspects or his wife and daughters?

I mean really how does he know? Put yourself in the same position. As a father I have. Would you get down on your knees as the soldiers demanded not knowing what they were going to do to your family? Would you?

Don

[liberal N proud]

1. But in the average American mind can not comprehend that scenario in their living rooms

Most don't see the world as the same for the family regardless of the culture.
They will say that will never happen here and proclaim that Iraq is full of terrorist and this is what they get for letting Al-Qaeda inhabit their country and I am sure a whole host of other gruel to justify it in their thick brains.

[cassiepriam]

5. What we have done the Iraqis may very well come back to us one day.

Paybacks are hell. And there are millions of angry Iraqis.

[MadMaddie]

2. Ah...Don you have asked a question that I have been thinking

about...if a foreign soldiar came to our door in America would we submit to their demands?

Would the men in the house let their wives and daughters be seperated from them?

What about young sons and teenage sons carted away withought rhyme or reason?

What about households that are women only or men only....

[cassiepriam]

4. What choices do you have if the soldiers are heavily armed?

And they out number you?
And you have young children and elderly parents living with you?

[MadMaddie]

6. You are right what choice is there?

So the Iraqi's are in an absolute no win situation....the innocent are grouped in with all of the others...their lives, their homes and their possessions are destroyed....

I guess that was the point of Dons question....this administration has destroyed so much more than just taken Iraq's leader out....

There is a new generation of children who are hating Americans because of these actions.....it's heartbreaking....

[cassiepriam]

7. The damage will go on for generations.

We know that PTSD can carry over to at least 3 generations based
on the Holocaust research.

And Iraqi's infrastructure is totally destroyed. And the ecology as well.
We have destroyed a whole country.

[cassiepriam]

3. Sadly, all Iraqis must assume the Americans will kill, rape, or torture them.

To trust an American is very dangerous.

[msongs]

8. How does an american soldier at an Iraqi's door know if the Iraqi is wrapped in a bomb or not? nt

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. The point is, the American soldier is an invader in their country and home.

[WinkyDink]

10. Yes, Iraqis sit at home, attired in bombs, just waiting for those helpful American G.I.s to knock

politely on their front door.

SNEAKY B******S!

[Forkboy]

11. Sounds like a good reason not to be there.

[Ms. Clio]

12. he doesn't know -- and why don't more American fathers try to put themselves in his place?

And when did these become acceptable images of American warriors "spreading democracy?"

These deeply dangerous and deluded Bushistas have forever linked the U.S. "brand" with lies, invasion, brutal occupation, torture -- don't see how that can ever change, now.