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Edited on Sat Sep-22-07 11:26 PM by patrice
The death of one innocent person is murder, no matter what idealistic "justification" is claimed in this Damned War. No WMD. Dishonesty and cherry-picked intelligence. Our military's capacity to defend us in other situations is being substantially damaged. We supported Saddam Hussein for decades. Saddam Hussein was a Secular monster who kept the Sunni and Shia from killing one another. Ossama bin Laden was persona non grata in Iraq before we invaded, now he's a hero to a significant minority of Iraqis. It was our buddies the Saudis who destroyed the WTC. A weak Iraq makes Iran stronger. Nation building is not our responsibility. Iraqis will never forget who killed whom and revenge is a dish best served cold. New terrorists are being spawned all over the Earth. Killing all terrorists, wherever they are, is a tactical impossibility and even if it were possible it would require genocide. No allies. We have no means to correct the damage done by invading with too few troops. Billions of $ wasted to no constructive effect. Trillion$$ more needed to keep this up for the next ten years at least. Our ability to deal with terrorism in other ways is paralyzed by being hog-tied in Iraq. No matter how you define "success", all of the above means that the lives of our soldiers are being wasted. The longer we delay that inevitable recognition, the more soldiers will be wasted.
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