former Iraqi soldiers riot by the hundreds

According to this story, which just came over the wires, hundreds of former Iraqi soldiers are now rioting in two different places in Iraq:

www.reuters.com...;jsessionid=VFI14VOAWBI0GCRBAEOCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=3557609

Maybe Bush's 'strategery' of blowing off the UN and running an illegal occupation isn't working, after all?

Things are definately going to get worse before they get better.

Well said curiousone.....

This nation is in upheavel. Reconstruction, government change, infrastructure problems, unemploymentetc......things don't get better over night. Change, such as this, requires and takes time...not months, but years.
If this was the case of the US going through such, the US would be in the same conditions. Post-WWII is prime example of this.....but hey....lets not aplly the same to Iraq.....!
Regardless of how we may feel about the situations dealing with the "causes" and "ramifications" of the just or unjust war in and on Iraq....rationality must be maintained....this nation, Iraq, is going thorugh major changes and these changes take time...they are not solved overnight or in months....


regards
seekerof

Seekerof,
Yes, I would agree that, now that we have gone an inch, we have to go the whole mile in Iraq and see this through to the finish. Even if you thought the war was wrong... it's imperative that Iraq not be left to turn into just another ruined country primed for terrorist takeover.

I have come, though, to see the current administration as being severely uninformed when it comes to its world and terrorism policies (for example, I believe it's approach to Wahhabist Islam and its connection to the Saudi government is entirely wrong) . To that end, I think it's time to create enough political pressure so as to generate some changes (a policy that deals with the evolving world of ideological terrorism, not just outdated concepts of terrorism and nation states, for instance).

One's enemy is not concerned about the proper time to right a problem but the opportunity to attack non-stop in the hope that ignorant people will think that the problem is unsolvable and thus a great evil to be avoided.