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Yeah. I pretty much agree with what you said. People are people, and so you will have people who commit crimes when they think they can get away with it. When comparing whole socieities or militaries, you see how widespread it is, and how those systems are designed. In democratic nations, it is illegal for soldiers to rape people period, regardless of the country being occuppied territory or not. However, Muslim armies do not punish soldiers for rape of enemy civilians. Saddam Hussein didn't care if his troops were raping Kurdish women or shiite women.
And you consider Saddam Hussein's army to be a muslim army?

If a person in a muslim country raped a woman thenthen the chance of him living (if he's found guilty), instead of having his body cut into 1000 pieces is close to zero. Again, people are using Saddam Hussein's example of violent acts to make their acts to look more justifiable. It's the "but hey, he did it too so we can do it too"
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At least the violence made by the US military isn't as severe as the violence between sectarian factions within Iraq towards each other. An Iraqi has more to worry from Iraqis or foreign "freedom fighters" than they do from Americans or Brits or Aussies or Europeans. Yet, they will probably rationalize civilian casualties made by Muslim terrorists to some how be the fault of the democratic nations.
An Iraqi has as much to worry about $hitty dirty U.S foreigners as insane Iraqis. There is no difference. You can get killed by another Iraqi, or a foreign muslim, for simply being in the wrong sect or living in the wrong place. The same way you can instantly get killed by fu-king airstrikes called in by the U.S military, or raids done whenever they feel like, or shooting down women driving a car, or firing indiscrimnately against civilians, using ridiclous excuses to justify it. The U.S and any other foreigner in Iraq are terrorists, so are Iraqi's who kill other Iraqis. Civilian casualties made by muslim terrorists are, indirectly, the fault of democratic nations. The U.S is the reason for the damn killing. Had the U.S not invaded, then Iraq would look 1000 times better then what it looks now (despite it being pretty bad under Saddam's rule). Tell me, did civil war exist prior to the invasion? Did a Sunni have to worry about getting killed by Shia? Did a Shia have to worry about getting killed by Sunnis? Did muslim terrorists (both foreigners and non-foreigners) blow themselves up, killing a good amount civilians? No, none of this happend. But it suddenly happened as soon as you "liberated" Iraq. Now tell me, what might be the reason for it? Hmm..it can't possibly be because of the invasion, done by a western democratic nation? nah, not at all. All those things happened before the war, right?
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It's not logical, but it makes sense to them somehow.
It's perfectly logical, the U.S is the reason why the suicide bombings and sectarian killings appeared. The U.S also partly responsible for the already existing tensions between sects prior to the war. You'll probably find this to be unbelievable.
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I think that this problem would be alleviated slightly if the occupiers spoke Arabic. When Lebanon was occuppied by Syria, they protested peacefully instead of using violence. Perhaps, its because the soldiers could talk to the common people of Lebanon and rationalize with them? As oppossed to Americans who don't know the language and appear as savages with high-tech weapons. Maybe if the people could hold conversations with eachother, they'd get along better, much like how integration solved most racism in the United States.
Why should they speak arabic? They don't need to speak arabic, since they don't need to be in the freakin' arabic-speaking country in the first place. Conversations and discussions help, but listening to the request of the locals also helps alot too, something the U.S military obviously fail to do.
I wish most of the U.S soldiers a good peaceful life, they are humans like us. However, when they step into Iraqi soil I wish them nothing but death, and this isn't because they are American, as I wish the death of any foreign combatant (in other words coalition forces AND foreign muslim terrorists). Hopefully they will keep dying as long as they decide to remain there, until they decide to pull out.