AnnRKeyintheUSA
War Child
My diatribe on the situation:
Success HAS been achieved in Iraq!
The goal was to secure freedom. This has been done. The people are now free to battle in the streets, attack each other, and split into factions. This couldn't have happened under Saddam!
The goal was to bring democracy to Iraq. This has been achieved. What is democracy but the majority of the people voting and getting their way? The majority of Iraqis have spoken, and they want a nation where they are free to explore their factional differences and do whatever they want. They have also spoken that they do not want the Americans around.
The rhetoric is that if we don't stay over there, they'll be over here. Well, I haven't seen a single terrorist attack on US soil since 9-11, however, we've now lost more Americans in battle than we did that day, not counting the tens of thousands of 'free' Iraqis who are now dead who likely would be alive if we'd stayed away. By sending our people over there, they were set up to be killed not only in battle but in terrorist attacks, ambushes, and by land mines. Civilians working for the postwar effort have also been brutally tortured and killed. Now we have 3 more missing men taken by the terrorists. They wouldn't have been able to get to them in America. This whole 'go over there or they'll be over here' logic is also flawed because the terrorist attacks are kept in check by homeland security, and no army is going to dare attack the US mainland.
If it's all the same to you, I'll take my chance with the phantom, mythical possibility of a terrorist attack over the death, destruction, and cost of money and lives going on over there now. The main goal of Iraqi freedom has been won. If the US stays, it will not be giving the Iraqis what they want, but what the US wants, which is Imperialism and 'taking over' in the style of the old Empires. I hope our government will wake up and see this soon.
Success HAS been achieved in Iraq!
The goal was to secure freedom. This has been done. The people are now free to battle in the streets, attack each other, and split into factions. This couldn't have happened under Saddam!
The goal was to bring democracy to Iraq. This has been achieved. What is democracy but the majority of the people voting and getting their way? The majority of Iraqis have spoken, and they want a nation where they are free to explore their factional differences and do whatever they want. They have also spoken that they do not want the Americans around.
The rhetoric is that if we don't stay over there, they'll be over here. Well, I haven't seen a single terrorist attack on US soil since 9-11, however, we've now lost more Americans in battle than we did that day, not counting the tens of thousands of 'free' Iraqis who are now dead who likely would be alive if we'd stayed away. By sending our people over there, they were set up to be killed not only in battle but in terrorist attacks, ambushes, and by land mines. Civilians working for the postwar effort have also been brutally tortured and killed. Now we have 3 more missing men taken by the terrorists. They wouldn't have been able to get to them in America. This whole 'go over there or they'll be over here' logic is also flawed because the terrorist attacks are kept in check by homeland security, and no army is going to dare attack the US mainland.
If it's all the same to you, I'll take my chance with the phantom, mythical possibility of a terrorist attack over the death, destruction, and cost of money and lives going on over there now. The main goal of Iraqi freedom has been won. If the US stays, it will not be giving the Iraqis what they want, but what the US wants, which is Imperialism and 'taking over' in the style of the old Empires. I hope our government will wake up and see this soon.
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