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other side - your only quoting the lies and the rhetoric of the administration, do they pay you to do this?
The picture of the soldier giving the child the high five is very nice. I posted it on my blog months ago.
How would you feel if you were passing out candy to all these children, boom an explosion, and most of them are dead. No it wouldn't be your fault, but it sure would be hard not to blame yourself. But you might ask yourself, what could have I done to prevent this? The answer would keep coming around. If I had not been there these kids would not have been blown up.
The Iraqis realizing this have been asking us to leave for some time, but we won't listen. With the use of the media and the help of some Democrats the administration has convinced people like yourself that we need to be there for security.
There have however been some brave Republicans who stood up and asked for an exit strategy, I imagine these brave Republicans will be reelected.
Concerning the torture. The military fought hard against the new torture policies. When I was in the Navy I had to take a course, attend a lecture and even sign an agreement to ensure I understood that under no circumstances were POWs to be tortured. All senior enlisted had to do this. But with the help of Gonzalez it has been deemed that captured (SUSPECTED) terrorists anywhere, including the U.S. are not to be considered POW, even though we have declared war on terrorism. Thereby, torture had been approved by Gonzalez, forcing the military s hand.
If those we are torturing are in fact terrorists, I wouldn't be to concerned. But most of them are not, they are just men and young men who have been rounded up as suspects for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Veterans for common sense and Newsweek has reported on this. And here is even the worst part. When the torture was found out, they punished the soldiers who were only doing what they were told while the General responsible was given a medal. I would hate so much to be in the military right now, trust me there are a lot of angry young men. Go to Optruth.org or Iraq vets against the war http://www.ivaw.net/ Those of you have never served are convinced that these were soldiers who were just being bad, but those of us who have served know better. You don't piss without permission. While crimes are committed, for this to go on for an extended period of time, in the open, it had to be approved, and even encouraged.
Here is the deal, you can have 10 thousand troops in Iraq or 1 million troops in Iraq and you won't stop or slow down ONE suicide bomber. Because they are doing it only because we are there. So then what we are really doing is encouraging terrorism rather than fighting it.
I will repeat the words that have been said ten years ago, "you cannot fight terrorism with military action." We are fooling ourselves and being made a fool of. But it's not funny, because people are dieing.
Reagan who seems to be every conservatives hero did not fight communism with military action and yet won the cold war. Personally I thought it was a bit of luck and I give the credit to Gorbachof. But never the less. The one soul country who was more of a threat then any nation on earth at any time was beaten by us, not by war.
The terrorists we are supposedly fighting in Iraq are insurgents who simply want us to leave, they had nothing to do with 9/11. And if you're going to continue repeating those lies - then show me the proof.
"A fool says I know and a wise man says I wonder."
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