I'm not giddy over anything....but hoping those of you who say that things are GREAT in Iraq.... it's just the media making bad things up, etc... will OPEN YOUR EYES and see that it gets worse every day.
the "recent" spat of vilence seems bad....and is.....but.....
I saw a report on the vilence, in sadr city....by the account of the reporter and the soldier she was interviewing, that the violance is a result of the Shia prime minister (or president) ordering the removal of the road blocks....the Iraqi forces just left....
With "political meddling" such as this it will go on forever.....
giving then authority,...and then re-taking ground.....sounds to much like the wrong plan......
I am not in favor of thier struggling goverment "running things"......
there was to much "political correctness" in the "peace" part of this war....
MacArthur got it right in Japan.....we should have used "his plan"
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MacArthur oversaw the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951 and is credited for making far-ranging democratic changes in that country
MacArthur may have made his greatest contribution to history in the next five and a half years, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Japan. While initiating some policies and merely implementing others, by force of personality MacArthur became synonymous with the highly successful occupation. His GHQ staff helped a devastated Japan rebuild itself, institute a democratic government, and chart a course that made Japan one of the world's leading industrial powers. The U.S. during his time was firmly in control of Japan to oversee its reconstruction, and MacArthur for a short while was effictively the interim leader of Japan. In 1946, MacArthur's staff drafted a new constitution that renounced war and reduced the emperor to a figurehead; this Constitution is in use in Japan to this day. MacArthur handed over power to the newly-formed Japanese government in 1949, and remained in Japan until relieved by President Truman on April 11, 1951.