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Thursday, May 24 at 11:19 AM

R. Kiefer of Arvada writes:

This administration swears that leaving Iraq precipitously will result in total chaos in the MidEast - what better reason is there to believe that that probably won’t happen? Bush & Co. hasn’t been right, or truthful, on anything about Iraq yet - so why should they be believed now? Why should we further impoverish our economy, decimate our military, and needlessly sacrifice more lives just to save the bacon of a bungling, deceitful administration? It was, after all, the Bushies who swore never to nation build - even as a last resort, which this is - since all of the other purported reasons for this occupation were bogus. So let’s leave already, for no other valid reason exists to stay.
So let the Shiites take over, which ( the administration knows ) had to happen when Saddam Hussein was overthrown. Maybe the Saudis will come in to support the Sunnis, and then the Iranis and Syrians, to support the Shia.
Should they get involved in Iraq’s civil war? Better them than us! The Saudis, in a form of political justice, may find themselves having to deal with their progeny, Al Qaeda. All this might be very interesting for Americans, for a change, to view from ( hopefully ) the outside.

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total chaos in the MidEast

Well, mission accomplished

Posted by Holy Reality on May 25, 2007 10:01 AM

She, Cindy Sheehan, said the most devastating conclusion she had reached "was that Casey did indeed die for nothing ... killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think."

I am reminded of what Ed Thomas while sucking on his mustache said about Dani Newsom, a respected professor at CU and DU and a civil litigator for civil rights when she said our soldiers died for nothing.
He described her as “intellectually vacant.”

In thinking about Sheehan and Newsum comment about “die for nothing,” I'm thinking they died for something. They died to create a more dangerous world. Bush just had to assassinate Saddam and today is claiming the world is a safer place.

The facts clearly demonstrate that if Saddam were simply contained and not killed, the world would be safer. There would not be Al Qaeda in Iraq and I’ve posted an Iraqi woman’s point of view in the past who expresses the world’s general consensus and it does not favor Bush.

Posted by Richard Grimes Risen Ape: Deicide r22037@yahaoo.com on May 29, 2007 11:45 AM