We won the War, but will we Win the peace ?

Mob rule, beatings and killing without even trial or reason, home\'s and even hospitals being looted.

Are we in danger of loosing the Peace?


Discuss.

Personally I don\'t think it look too good at the moment, in fact if it gets any worse the victory in peace time might be beyond our reach.

[Living-In-Clip]

Oh no...Those lootings and everything is just part of the Iraqi liberation.

:rolleyes:

[videoholic]

Can you guys find an instance when a country was completely taken over and there wasn\'t chaos?  It\'s been what, 3 or 4 days?  Shit, you\'d probably only be happy if they had elected president and established local governments by now.


Personally I think the US got cought going too damn fast.  They are sending in 1,200 people I think today to set up police rule in the cities.  That along with the military shifting over to policing probably in the next day or so she cool it a lot.

They have already cracked down in a number of the cities and the looting dropped tremendously.  Don\'t forget the media will take the best story and run with it.  I heard interviews on the radio with doctors from some hospitals saying that the looting was speratic and that most of the hospitals are fine.  

You just can\'t expect the sun to come out and everyone to sit on their front porch sniffing the new air.  Shit is going to happen and control will come down soon.

Originally posted by videoholic

Personally I think the US got cought going too damn fast

Agreed, it would of been nice for South Iraq Basra inc\' to be stabilised before the fall of Baghdad.

but then again we could of lost momentum  and got boged down in urban fighting.

the real cause of this chaos is the lack of both the scale and equipement of the force sent to Iraq.

*coff* old Rummy\'s fault *coff* Coff*  

but hey if I was in charge I would use this opportunity to suspend Donald Rumsfeld….by a rope…. Round his testicles.

[videoholic]

I was watching TV last night and they had an interesting interview with a guy who was saying that you can\'t get cought up in the little fights.  You have to push forward.  In other words if you don\'t Have to to take Basra, then why sit there and fight.  Push ahead to the main goal of Baghdad.

I think this is why we cought them so off guard.  I mean we essentially took over an entire country in less than three weeks.  That is sick.

I\'ve read quite a bit this morning that they are quickly moving to give people jobs and policing the communities to bring back order.  Eventually we just may not have anything to debate about.  Um, yeah...  right....

Its only been a couple of days. It always turns out like this- looting, madness, chaos etc.

I think if the goverment doesnt get started within a month or two- I believe this war had lost its purpose.

Something tells me all of the religious groups will be fighting for power in the comming years.

Also many are afraid of Iran trying to invade.

[Titan]

If Iran invades, there is a safe bet that the US will intervene. Unless Iraq has a stronger military, then they can fight them off, especially if the US trains them.

I dont believe Iran would try to invade iraq (it just would\'nt be worth it), but if they do its gonna be one hell of a bloody war.