| | Yet I know that if you've offered a blog about a story of one anecdotal woe-begotton family, and others like it which it surely represents statistically, this is in contrast to the overall reality by all accounts for SO long now, i.e the Iraqi people are mostly in favor of what we've done, hoping we leave them to run the place on their own, feeling either better off already and/or soon to be if we follow through, and still believe we will follow through for them which we can and should, as candidate J. Kerry has recently told us in no uncertain terms, mind you. Tis you, IMO, who's recognized but a fraction of the reality in forming your opinion. But maybe Kerry is all wrong in this too, just like Bush? Do you think? ???
You KNOW? How? Because of what you're read in the US press? The press of the occupier? The press increasingly concentrated in fewer and fewer multinational corporate hands, hands that are firmly stuck in the Iraqi cookie jar, hoping to get more oily cookies than the other corporate multinationals? Thought so. If you go and search out what non US press reports, you just may realize you've been had. Most of the Iraqi people may have been in favor of removing Saddam, but the actions of the "coalition of the willing" has changed all that. If you seek out press from outside the US you'll find this to be the fact. As for Kerry, we'll have to see about him if/when he holds the power strings. Right now, if he gets elected, given what I've heard from him, I don't have high hopes for drastic change for the better. An improvement, maybe, but not a fundamental one.
I realize perfectly well that it is highly unlikely for me to change your mind. Likewise, obviously you will not change mine. Ergo, let's end our exchange right here.
Enjoy the holidays and please do give a thought or two to the dead and dying on all sides, paid for by your and my tax dollars.
Peace be with you. |
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