Nearly a year on, long after Bush effectively declared “victory” and “liberated” the Iraqi people (after killing 10,000 of them that is), the American military has lost hundreds upon hundreds of soldiers, and many thousands more injured. Some victory huh?
Like Hoh Chi Minh, it only takes the pronouncements of one man i.e. Ayatollah Sistani to get the ‘mighty’ American occupiers shaking in their boots. It is highly enjoyable to see how skilfully he has them dancing around after him.
This, for some reason, appears all to familiar to me. It reaks of MacArthur-esque subjugation of a war-torn people. Just as the japanese were forced to accept a constitution in the 40s that supposedly reflected their needs and culture, but was infact nothing more than a copy of the amerikan constitution written in japanese, the iraqi people will be forced to accept a copy of the US constitution, but written in arabic. So, I agree.... it's not worth the paper it's written on, for, as we all know, the people of each land should be allowed to develop their own charters, based on their real needs, ideas, national identity, and history; they should not be forced to adopt some scroll full of old, worn-out, idealistic rhetoric and incoherant slogans about freedom and equality and rights, especially is said scroll has been devised and encouraged by some foreign people who really don't give a damn about the people whom they subjugate, but rather seek only the ability to allocate markets and cheap labour, by which they might strengthen their business-owning class and spread their skanky consumer-culture and racist, dogmatic ways.
Actually, it’s 7 terrorists killed in the last few days. That’s some 110 of these foreign fighters killed Saddam was captured some three months ago - so much for the end of the resistance, that is always predicted?
please do not lynch me, friends, for it is unwillingly that I support the amerikkan war machine against the muslims - the US government takes taxes and wastes them on causes which I do not support.
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please do not lynch me, friends, for it is unwillingly that I support the amerikkan war machine against the muslims - the US government takes taxes and wastes them on causes which I do not support.
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Don't worry, I don't think that many people in America are appreciative of the fact that US tax dollars are being spent on terrorising and killing tens of thousands of innocents around the world.
No, but a majority do favor spending our hard earned money in promoting democracy and freedom to defeat tyrants that kill hundreds of thousands of innocents while the rest of the world sits on their collective thumbs.
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No, but a majority do favor spending our hard earned money in promoting democracy and freedom...
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Yes, the sort of "democracy and freedom" that has seen tens of thousands of Iraqi's and Afghans butchered by the US military so far...I don't think so.
Seems to me... despite the fact that W. Bush is NOT the dangerous one among his collegues, that he himself is the biggest embarassment to his Regime
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You’ll see the hundreds of millions that have been butchered over the past century. Most of them were not in the name of freedom and democracy. Also, check out the new poll that says a majority of Iraqis are better off now than they were a year ago and favor the overthrow of Saddam.
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You'll see the hundreds of millions that have been butchered over the past century.
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But is that your excuse to saying it is ok for the United States to kill tens of thousands more? I bet that is exactly the argument people used during the Vitenam war, yet the American military ended up taking part in the killings of millions there.
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No, but a majority do favor spending our hard earned money in promoting democracy and freedom ....
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Better ask for a refund on that count.
Have ya checked out the Iraqi TAL? Doesn't look like a good return on our investment.
^You're right. US should have allowed German facism, nazism, Japanese imperialism, totalinarism or communism to dominate the world. I'm not a fan of the Iraq war or how it was executed. But it burns me up to have people who have no better answers do nothing but criticize as if they come from some lily white past. If these people had been listened to throughout history we'd all be typing in a different language without the freedom of expression that we have here. There would in all likliehood be no internet at this point in history if America had not championed free enterprise and innovation while defeating the tryannical governments that would have stifled such things.
Sorry, Semi.. I'm not disowning the fight for freedom & democracy as a whole.. just the TAL. It's a piece of $#%^ however you look at it. I have hope for Iraq, I have hope for Afghanistan and all the other countries struggling for freedom and democracy. Time will bring it eventually, but certain things could help speed up the process. Things like the TAL, as in its present, legal form, are not among those beneficial things.
The TAL is kinda like that theory that leaving your kid in a nasty day-care and exposing him to ear infections and all the rest develops a better immune system. Sure, maybe. But eating and living healthy from the start would work just as well, and would be a whole lot more easy and enjoyable for all. Why handicap Iraqi progress with a thrown together wad of toilet paper for a consititution, rather than taking the time necessary to do things--maybe not perfectly right, but--right and thoughtfully?
Good to see the majority of American people state that they want either less or no money spent on the war in Iraq.
When asked about spending in Iraq by the federal government, just over four in 10 said the government should either spend the same, 33 percent, or spend more, 9 percent. More than half said either less, 31 percent, or no money at all, 22 percent, according to the National Annenberg Election Survey.
