State of the Occupation

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-05-02 11:41am

I'll put my vote down as "Completely fucked".

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-05-02 11:51am

I voted the same,it looks even worse after the prison scandal.

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2004-05-02 11:56am

Too bad I don't have "maga-fucked" as a option.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-05-02 12:09pm

I only put "completely fucked" because of what Bush & Co. thought or claimed they were going to be able to do in Iraq. I think the US could bail on the place and only end up looking stupid. Iraq would then likely super duper mega fucked in the extreme, but that's not the Occupation.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2004-05-02 12:52pm

I voted 'bad but salvageable' ... suprised? Well I didn't say salvageable by whom though now did I?

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2004-05-02 01:26pm

Crown wrote:I voted 'bad but salvageable' ... suprised? Well I didn't say salvageable by whom though now did I?

My sentiments aswell.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-05-02 01:39pm

Fuck, I don't know, I've never been there and the media only focuses on the bad stuff. Bad but salvageable, I guess.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-05-02 02:15pm

Bad but salvageable. Not by the current administration, but salvagable.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-05-02 02:39pm

Bad, but salvagable.

Not by bush, but by the U.S.

Exmoor Cat · Post by **Exmoor Cat** » 2004-05-02 02:56pm

Bad but salvageable. It is comparatively quiet in the Kurd and Shiite sectors, though the prisoners drama is yet to fully manifest itself. The military pulling out of Falluja might also help calm things a bit. Am surprised some blatent bribery by the coalition has nto been happening - e.g. hearts and minds and reconstruction organisation, instead it is still treated as a warzone. Not clever.

Corrected posting error.
-Durandal

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-05-02 04:47pm

Bad but salvegable. The average Iraqi still doesn't seem to give a shit, there's no massive popular uprising at this point.

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-05-02 05:03pm

With the right people making the decisions, I'm sure it could still be salvaged. However, if Team Bush stays the current course in Iraq, then I guess it's fucked...

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-05-02 06:43pm

Its fair as occupations go; such action never goes to plan. Bush is still an idiot for doing it the way he did, but we could hardly expect things to be peachy no matter who was running it.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2004-05-02 07:03pm

Salvageable. In theory, anyway.

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2004-05-02 08:24pm

Salvagable.

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-05-02 09:22pm

Howedar wrote:Bad but salvegable. The average Iraqi still doesn't seem to give a shit, there's no massive popular uprising at this point.

With the Iraqis not giving a shit is why I said completely fucked. There apathy, IMO, is all that's required for failure.

Fuck, I don't know, I've never been there and the media only focuses on the bad stuff. Bad but salvageable, I guess.

Well, what's the good stuff? Not that tired, lame, "look, a new school!" shit.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-05-02 09:41pm

Bad, but salvagable. I'm too much the optimist. Plus, I kinda want the coalition to succeed.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-05-02 11:48pm

Vympel wrote:With the Iraqis not giving a shit is why I said completely fucked. There apathy, IMO, is all that's required for failure.

Well, I see apathy as a fixable problem. As I said, Joe Iraqi is not (yet) fanatically anti-US.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » 2004-05-02 11:53pm

It's bad, but it can be fixed.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2004-05-03 12:02am

Somewhere between bad and fair. Given that alot of the (non-news media) reports outside of a very few isolated areas aren't too bad, I'll cast my vote for fair.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-05-03 12:08am

Apathy or indifference is not such a bad thing. It simply means that the Iraqis will go with whichever side wins.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2004-05-03 12:10am

I still see it as tittering on the edge. Right now its a bunch of brushfires we're running around stamping out. If it falls into full scale civil war, we're fucked.

Not that Bushy and Co. did a great job, but its not a desaster yet.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2004-05-03 10:28pm

I see the US being fucked while over there; that prison shit is not helping in one bit either.

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