1) Iraqi's will continue to fight Iraqi's, blind sighted to the fact American troops still occupy their land. They are fighting based on built up religious pressure from the past 30 or 40 years. Iraq was always united (in fact I had no clue there were two separate sects of Islam until this war broke out). Iraq was united as Iraqi's not as one group here, one group here, and then the turks up in the north. Amazes me how taking out their leader can cause that, that is the direct cause of what happened. I think a few groups will point out 'hey the Americans are still here, had they not taken Saddam out we wouldn't have this issue.' I'm not sure what that will do, however i think some groups will try harder to go more so after troops and push us out rather than fight each other (that can be done at any point in time).
As for repercussions outside of Iraq.. I think there is a pending civil war in Palestine between the two political factions there. Israel is reaching out to Amas(sp?) (current guy who is the PM over there excuse any spelling errors). They are offering them money and funding to fight the other group. The other group Hamas I think it realizing that without Saddam in power in Iraq they have lost most of their funding from him, he was a key player in Arafat. I think this angers these groups anymore and pushes them into the civil war, because they lack Iraq's help, and they lack their own peoples help and the US is in essence pushing them from both sides (Israel and Iraq). There is also something pending up above Israel in those nations. Syria and Iran I think are prepping to join in on it as well, only a matter of time before they do. I think it will cause.. regional repercussions.. it will be worse than just within Iraq, Iraq is the tip of the iceberg.
2) The trial itself was unfair and unbalanced. The current 'goal' of the United States in Iraq is to bring the Iraqi people a democracy. A democracy does not function or operate in the manner that that court did. I'm also curious as to how the trial started without there actually being an Iraqi government, that itself doesn't make sense to me. I'm not saying the Saddam was a good guy and he didn't deserve what he got (though I'm against death in anyway) I am however saying that the court system in which he went through was unfair. The trial he was sentenced to death on was the assassination temp that happened. He ordered the deaths of 150 people from that town that had 'connections' to the assassination attempt. I believe all 150 were killed, or jailed in the process. The defense requested to see these 'documents' the defense was denied the ability to see said paper work against their client. This doesn't seem at all democratic to me, but I guess thats just me huh? *shrugs*. Small bit of facts (check wiki on this) While Bush was in office in Texas 153 men were killed while on death row. Things to think about on that note? How many were innocent? How many were rejected a stay plea? I can't provide you statistics on that, but if anyone can provide me with them that would be great..
3) I'm against this war (if you couldn't tell already). I think the reasons we went in were too iffy. I fully wholeheartedly support the troops that are over there. When you enlist in the army, and when you are a reserves person you are told to go over there, you can't pick where you go, you're just sent there. These people signed up to do what they're doing now, they get what they get, thus I support them in doing what they're doing. What I don't support is the political ignorance in Washington. This is both the ignorance of the democratic party and the republican party alike, and any other party that has any form of say within that hunk of land we call the capital of this country. I think the best thing to do is pull out slowly, but swiftly. Enough to where we wont cause damage in the process, but still get people out of there. As of now, what are we doing? We're watching too factions fight, and we're getting killed. There is no 'terrorism' in Iraq there is pure civil war between two nations. The best people to solve this problem is the people of Iraq. We !@#$% them over, totally. We should, once they have a structured government, pay them back rightfully what we owe. Though we cannot pay them back in the lives we personally stole, and the lives they stole from each other. But we can assist them when the time comes. Adding more troops in Iraq will not help at all, there is no need for it, the majority of the upper commanders on the ground don't want to do it, and Sec. Gates disagrees with it as well (as he should he was on that commission.). What Bush does I suppose he'll do on his own, however the democratic congress has a few strong players going against adding troops to Iraq, lets see what they can do (if any good).
4) I think, knowing what the President has done in the past, it will go for the worse. Most likely there will be no 'real' way to stop him from adding troops into Iraq. Something will 'happen' to allow him to do it, or do an executive order to make sure it happens. As of now the executive branch has way too much power. I think the only thing that would truly help that administration is total abolishment. If there was a way to actually get our representatives to listen to us, and impeach people when laws were broken we wouldn't have this issue at all. Unfortunately the democratic congress (most of them) are against impeachment, though I think the Bush Administration has enough dirt on them for impeachment to happen. Most people say 'whats the point of impeachment with only two years left'. Well 3,000 have died in Iraq, and at the rate Americans are dead there by the end of two years that number may be around the 6,000 mark. Thats the reason for impeachment. Our Army is already weak, if there is an actual threat at some point in time (or god forbid a natural disaster) we do not have the ability to act quickly enough on it. Thats why.
:p Enjoy reading that, sorry about the spelling mistakes there are tons there. I'm not on firefox 2.0
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