I agree. Where were/ARE all the liberal (and I count myself as a liberal)
politicians when our 2 "main" choices for president both voted for the war?
No one seems to take Kerry to task for his vote, not much anyway. Was he so
duped? I find it hard to believe. I am not so smart but before and after the
war started I was asking and looking about for any real evidence of WMD's or
any other good reason why we should go to war in Iraq "at this time".
(Hussein and Al Q hated each other, they were not partners.)
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From: Met History [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:34 AM
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Subject: [BP] So, would the Minute Men have been aiming bombs ...
...at their own kids going to school, guys repairing sewage plants, and
hospitals?
Just because Presidents Johnson and Nixon were lying idiots doesn't make the
Vietcong good - they were barbarians who, after our departure, subjected
their country to astonishing cruelty - some "freedom". (We were a host
family to an ethnic Chinese "boat family", 6 people expelled from the
country where they had been living for four generations.) Ditto, Bush is
an incompetent nitwit, but that doesn't make MM anything more than an angry
entertainer.
Just because we (plenty of blame to go around, including the Democrats - if
everything was so obvious where were they?) began the war in Iraq under
false pretenses, and was devastatingly miscalculated, it doesn't mean the
most natural or constructive response for an Iraqi caught in the maw of war
is to road-bomb anybody who walks by. The colonists spent years negotiating
with the British who said quite clearly that they didn't want to leave, and
didn't want to give the colonists their freedom. We have said quite clearly
we want to get out asap - and we mean it. ---Christopher
Meet The New Jihad
A TIME investigation reveals how insurgents in Iraq aim to create an Islamic
state and turn the country into a terrorist haven
By <javascript:void(0)> MICHAEL WARE/FALLUJAH
Sunday, Jun. 27, 2004
The safe house lies on the outskirts of Fallujah in a neighborhood where no
Americans have ventured. Inside, a group of Arab sheiks has gathered to
discuss the jihad they and their followers are waging against the U.S. The
men wear white robes and long beards and greet each other solemnly. They are
all Iraqi, but their beliefs are those of the strict Wahhabi strain of Islam
repressed under Saddam Hussein. At the back of the room are a few men from
Saudi Arabia, who stand silently as one of the sheiks, the group's leader,
addresses me in Arabic and stilted English. The war in Iraq, he says, is one
of liberation, not just of a country but of Muslim lands, Muslim people,
Islam itself. There is no room for negotiation with the enemy, no common
ground. What he and his men offer is endless, righteous resistance. "Maybe
this war will take a long time," he says. "Maybe this is a world war."
Maybe it is. ---Christopher
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