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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (220058)	2/21/2005 12:11:56 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572503

>54,000,000 Freed. (25,374,691 + 28,513,677) WOW! Minus how many killed? It seems every day lately we're seeing dozens more dying in Iraq. -Z

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (220058)	2/21/2005 1:58:28 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572503

I am very proud of my country for freeing twenty five million people in Iraq. Good for you, so am I. Not proud that George used non-existant WMDs as his main reason for invading/liberating Iraq. Not proud that George claimed Saddam was an imminent threat to the US as a reason to invade/liberate Iraq. Not proud that George failed to get a united international coalition to support his invasion/liberation of Iraq. Not proud that George waited about a year too long to hand over "sovereignty" (if that what the current state is) to some interim elected Iraqi government. Not proud that 1,000s of young Americans and tens or hundreds of thousands of Iraqis of all ages have been killed in the invasion/liberation of Iraq. Not proud of 3 years of nebulous limbo hell system George set up in Gitmo denying POW or legal rights to captured people. Not proud that the US has failed to free a single Saudi Arabian from their infinitely more oppressive, restrictive regime. But sure, if you just want to look at the number of Iraqis with greater political voice now than when Saddam was in charge, it does make ya feel mighty proud to be on the liberator's side. On that matter (# of Iraqis that get to vote now relative to two years ago), I feel pretty proud as well.