IRAQI ELECTIONS

Hello,

I am glad to hear from someone who has been there in Iraq.

I hope that you will post some more information soon about your stay there.
It is always better to hear from a person that has been there V.S. the
heavily make upped national news media news reporters.

As for Brian, well, don't let his attutide and etc, discourage you from
posting here about anything including Iraq.

Harvey

 

Fair's fair. One could point out the state of that country 20 years ago and
say that Iraq *had* all of that at the time. If you look at that timeframe
then 3 of the 4 have been achieved. Are you taking bets on whether the last
item will come into play sometime during the next 20 years?

I'm not going to defend this administrations actions to date, though.
I would have done things much differently.

 

Why don't you go back to waiting for your welfare checks and let the
grown-ups talk?

His "18 months" wasn't recently...and it wasn't too much of "Iraq"
involved in his stay. I'd say everyone knows that, but now with your
post here, I have to change it to "almost everyone know it".

 

Hmm. To put this into perspective of what I believe you're saying,
that's like the IRS using the tax code of today and going back to
people's earnings 20 years ago to collect...or worse, taking figures
and planning for what you'll earn 20 years from now and collecting
that amount now.

Funny, everyone keeps looking for the reasons we went to Iraq. As
several have said "would you have us pull out now?". That's their
reasoning. It doesn't matter at this point "why"...only that we're
there and have to do something. This administration lied to get us
into this, and now they back up and say "that was faulty
intelligence...so sue us...want us to pull out?".

I don't blame Bush as much as I do the "Rupert Murdochs" and "Jerry
Falwells". Those are the one's who got this crap that has turned out
to be lies in people's heads about all these different reasons why we
needed to invade a sovergn country, kill and/or capture it's lawful
leaders and install our own government.

 

What I am saying, is that 20 years ago Iraq had WMD, a burgeoning
weapons program and a totalitarian regime. They don't have those now.
I see this as a "good thing".

Just giving credit where credit is due.

 

FWIW, 20 years ago Hussein was Reagan's boy fighting the Iranian Shiites
who had just overthrown the Shah (our previous CIA installed Iranian
puppet in lieu of the nascent Iranian democracy). A foreign policy
based upon "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" makes for some real odd
bedfellows. A secular, socialist Iraq had the most modern outlook (after
Iran fell to the fundamentalists) particularly for the women who wore
modern clothes and could drive, shop etc more so than any other of those
so called nations including our "good friends" Saudi Arabia where women
can't drive and must be veiled in public. Sure, Hussein was a jerk, but
for a while he was our jerk so it was ok.

Another dictator outlives his usefulness to the USA and people here
wonder why we get such a bad rap overseas. We've supported by turn the
Shah of Iran, the Saudi monarchy, the Taliban and Hussein as it served
our purposes, while simultaneously giving lip service to democracy and
freedom. Is it any wonder the populace over there doesn't trust us.
Hell, I don't trust us. What our gummint says and what it actually does
are often two very different things. We still don't have Bin Laden.
That pisses me off. "We support a strong dollar". Yeh, right.....

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
-The WHO-

 

TO GET back to the subject, of whether the Iraqis will be able to vote,
without being shot down, ran down, or blown up, is gonna be a NEWS ITEM
soon. Bush is sending a few 82nd tough troops in there to, help guard
the situation I guess.
I sincerely hope they can vote, I just wonder if it can possilbly
happen. It seems a ''way'' too early for such a hopeful event. I wonder
where they'll vote,how they'll vote, who will vote, and so 4th.

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