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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (213844)12/23/2004 2:24:16 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1572369
 
Do not be fooled into thinking that the Iraqi gunmen in this picture are really defending their country and have no alternative. The Sunni-Baathist minority that ruled Iraq for so many years has been invited, indeed begged, to join in this election and to share in the design and wealth of post-Saddam Iraq.

As the Johns Hopkins foreign policy expert Michael Mandelbaum so rightly pointed out to me, "These so-called insurgents in Iraq are the real fascists, the real colonialists, the real imperialists of our age." They are a tiny minority who want to rule Iraq by force and rip off its oil wealth for themselves. It's time we called them by their real names.

So what? If they are the devil incarnate, what does that matter? They exist! They live! They kill! And they don't want to give up!

Mr. Friedman's words are like those of Blair and his consorts. They are intended to make sense of something that makes no sense. To convince us, that this is the fight for the gipper...for American democracy when its nothing of the sort.

This war is horrifically screwed up. You know that but you place the blame on poor execution. What you don't get is that this war would have been screwed up had it been well executed. When you accept that POV, then you will understand how John, Al, and others feel and why we are outraged by what's happening in Iraq. Until then, the Mr. Friedmans of the world are doing us more harm than good.
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