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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (213844)12/23/2004 10:25:23 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1572566
 
re: However this war started, however badly it has been managed, however much you wish we were not there, do not kid yourself that this is not what it is about: people who want to hold a free and fair election to determine their own future, opposed by a virulent nihilistic minority that wants to prevent that. That is all that the insurgents stand for.

We've killed 100,000 civilians, "mostly women and children". Out of a population of ~25 million. On a percentage of population basis, if compared to the US, that would equal ~1,200,000. The rough equivalent of the entire population of San Francisco, plus another 1/2 San Francisco.

Would you be an insurgent if that was happening to us?

It's easy and simplistic to say the insurgents stand for nothing. Suicide bombers must have some motivation. It might be religious, it might be nationalistic, it might be pure revenge. But it's something.

Some people like to look at the situation as if it has no history. You can't. We created this mess and we can't solve it. Only the Iraqi's can solve it. Self-determination.

The sooner we get the hell out the sooner they can get about the business of figuring out what kind of government they want. Nation-building is pure arrogance; and this probably is the worst attempt at nation-building in history.

John
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