Looking Forward

[superjohnnya]

Alright. I've allowed it to sink in. We lost. We lost the House, we lost the Senate...we lost. The people have spoken, and I'm not going to cry foul or demand that there be a recount. I'm not going to move to Canada or say that I'm ashamed of my country. Quite the opposite, actually. I'm very proud of my country. I think the fact that the

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[timmysays]

John if we're trying to fight the terrorists in Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia, why are we subjecting the citizens of Iraq (as if they haven't suffered enough the past few decades) to ground zero in the war on terror. It seems pretty callous of us to let Iraqi civilians get killed by US troops and foreign terrorists, in OUR war on terror. Basically an Iraqi's life isn't worth anything compared to an Americans, thus we should encourage terrorists to come to Iraq to blow stuff up and cause a bloodbath for the population, rather than spend our resources preventing terrorism at home? I mean I don't see the point of fighting the war on terror in Iraq (besides the fact that no one gives a shit about an Iraqi's life, and a false excuse to invade a country, those nebulous WMD's). Isn't it harder to fight terrorists in a country where there is no law and order, there is no civilian oversight of the military, guns are widely avaliable, and the native population detests us. I mean, even if we wanted to bring the war on terror to the terrorists, shouldn't we bring it to the "huge supporters" of terrorism, Syria, Iran, or Saudi Arabia. Or at the very least shouldn't we not support a supporter of terrorism like Saudi Arabia (ie not have their despotic king come over and chill at our president's ranch).

Even if you do believe its ethical and practical to force our war on terror upon the iraqi civilians, that wasn't how the administration explained the invasion. Bush didn't stand up and say "hey we're sending our troops to Iraq to attract terrorists there and distract them from attacking the US.!" No first he said it was because we were in imminent danger from WMD's. Then when it was obvious there weren't any WMD's he said it was to promote democracy. But now you say it was to shift the arena of the war on terror. If this is the REAL role of the war, then perhaps the american people weren't too happy getting lied to about the reasons for war. Maybe they just don't like having their tax dollars fritted away on a war the administartion can't clearly justify. I mean how exactly does the trillion-dollar military-industrial complex fit into the small-government republican plan?

[prowlingpug]

word.