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[janner]

I am sick and tired of hearing about Cindy Sheehan.  I was listening to talk radio in the car this morning and everyone is talking about her.  I heard some interview clips of her's and I cannot believe the ignorance that she spouts.  I agree with the talk show hosts... she is simply a pawn that the liberals and pro-terrorists are using to the max

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Re: Good point...

[sevariusjr]

I hope that what I wrote didn't upset you, and I don't think that I did. But you have absolutely made my point, better than I ever could - an American CAN be critical of the war, and angry as hell about it, BUT at the same time understand that leaving Iraq now would be catastrophic, for the Iraqis if not also for us. No one should view anyone who feels that way as anti-American.

It's not as if I'm not critical myself. I supported the war, I still do, but I'm not happy with how things have gone / are going. Trust me, not all of those of us who are more on the conservative side of politics think that a good job has been done, they aren't. I think that HUGE fuck-ups were made in handling post-war Iraq. I think one of Bush's biggest strengths is also one of his biggest failings, i.e. his loyalty, because I personally think that it's guys like Rumsfeld who really botched things and that they should have been axed a LONG time ago, but they haven't been.

Regardless, I do think that whatever our motivations for the war, what we are doing there is noble. If we can take nothing else out of it, the one glimmer of hope we should hold onto is that we did remove a brutal dictator and are helping the Iraqis to establish some sort of democracy, which is a noble thing, even if the end result may not be what we wanted (Iraq looks more and more like it's going to be a democracy governed heavily by Islamic law).

Re: Good point...

[janner]

*points to SJ* Yeah, that's what I wanted to say *nods* He does a better job at it than I do... maybe that's why he's the lawyer and I'm the jail administrator ;)