27th March 2003, 3:06 PM
Quote:Originally posted by A Black Falcon
On a related note, anyone else not surprised that the reaction of the Iraqis isn't exactly "flowers in the streets"? I mean, Sadaam has been in power for 35 years... in that long a amount of time he has had lots of time to get the people extremely loyal to him, atrocities or no... and he has. While almost certainly a majority of Iraqis dislike him and wish he was gone they won't celebrate or do anything until its clear he is... and right now they aren't convinced of that, especially with how much harder its turning out to be (and how much resistance the Iraqis and putting up) than expected...
It's becuase they are afraid of Saddam, loyalty doesn't really have anything to do with it. They are afraid that if they do celebrate and for reason we decide to back out at the last minute that Saddam would have the killed. He did if before to the Kurds in northern Iraq back in 1991.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.