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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (13543)	4/9/2004 7:44:30 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

What is happening in Iraq gives the lie to one of the few remaining justifications for the invasion, which is that it's better to fight the terrorists in Iraq than to fight them in the US. The people we are currently fighting we need not have fought at all. There is no evidence that these young, poor shiites would ever have taken up arms against the US absent the occupation. The same is true of the sunni insurgents. So far from giving us a chance to fight islamic terrorists on their home turf, the battles we now face keep us from fighting them at all.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (13543)	4/9/2004 1:52:15 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Rummy delusional, Shrub out to lunch, Condi incompetent, Powell confused, Cheney hiding.... I wonder if the right-wing extremists are still eating Freedom Fries. guardian.co.uk "...Without the support of either the UN or Nato, the US has been unable to call on countries such as France, Germany, India and Pakistan for troops. Instead it has had to rely on a ragtag coalition of about 40 countries as diverse as El Salvador and Mongolia. Between them they contribute 24,000 troops in non-combat roles, primarily engineering...."