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To: Elroy who wrote (221245)	3/1/2005 3:07:02 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573545

Re: most of the violence in Iraq today appears to be from Iraqis against Iraqis that want peace and democracy, Are you some kind of satanic Republican droid, elroy? Every intelligent nation on this planet understands that the nationalists in Iraq are fighting a malicious invader and the quislings who are willing to sell out their country to an evil military aggressor. Why are you telling us childish lies and foolish fairy tales, elroy?

To: Elroy who wrote (221245)	3/1/2005 9:24:32 AM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1573545

>Why are you so interested in cutting and pasting articles about 8 people getting killed in a small Iraqi town, but you never cut and paste articles about positive things that occur in Iraq??? Well, to me, the positive things don't matter much until the OVERWHELMINGLY bad things like dozens of people dying each day from attacks end. -Z

To: Elroy who wrote (221245)	3/1/2005 2:31:24 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573545

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To: Elroy who wrote (221245)	3/1/2005 2:32:42 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573545

I don't believe that horrific and senseless violence will lead to democracy esp. when that violence is being perpetrated by an outside power who is the one fighting for the democracy, and not the people of that nation. Well, I'll ignore the fact that the above sentence refers to the Iraq of two years ago, as most of the violence in Iraq today appears to be from Iraqis against Iraqis that want peace and democracy, and the reason I'll ignore the sentence is because...... Hey, its your choice to ignore what I said but to do so will get you no closer to understanding my position. I didn't ask you what your beliefs are, I asked why always highlight the negative things that are occurring in the ME, but you never celebrate the many good things? Your answer is.....you did.....once? Because I don't see it as a positive that an election was made possible only because of the close supervision of 150K soldiers from a superpower. I don't see it as a positive when 15-20% of the population abstained out of fear and/or rebellion. I don't see as a positive the election in Afghanistan when the prime minister can't leave the capital out of fear for his life. I don't see it as a positive that after two years, Iraq is in a constant state of chaos where gas is in short supply [in a nation with the second largest oil reserves in the world]. Where the electricity is on 2 hours and off 4 hours. I don't see it as a positive that we are at this stage of chaos after two years of deaths, maiming and billions of dollars expended. Adding to my pessimism is the fact that we were tricked by our leaders into going over to Iraq in the first place. I don't see it as a positive that after three years, the only thing that is keeping the Afghan economy together is foreign aid and the opium trade. Now if you want to be some over-the-edge pollyanna, then you go for it. However, don't tell me how I should be........I have a brain and I don't like what I see. Why are you so interested in cutting and pasting articles about 8 people getting killed in a small Iraqi town, but you never cut and paste articles about positive things that occur in Iraq??? What positives? That Ahmad has opened up a small grocery on the corner of Euphrates and Tigris, or that all the schools have been repainted? That 50% of the population got their index fingers painted purple on the same day? That you only have to carry an uzi at nite to be safe? That the Sharia is once again becoming the rule of law in Iraq? The truth: the positives are few and the negatives are many......and huge. You can fools some of the people some of the time......but some of us are smarter than that. ted

To: Elroy who wrote (221245)	3/1/2005 6:12:01 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573545

Why are you so interested in cutting and pasting articles about 8 people getting killed in a small Iraqi town, but you never cut and paste articles about positive things that occur in Iraq??? ...or don't post articles about so called "Insurgents" blowing up 100s of fellow Iraqis rather than 6 US troops on the same day, just because they are Shiites? Does it in your opinion make a better post that 6 US Marines got killed than the fact that some freaky Muslim blew up another 100 brethren for not being on his personal team of freaks?? I get the feeling that sometimes your "killed in Iraq" posts are kind of concentrating on how many US soldiers were killed in "what did I say" events rather than other killings where "Iraqis only" where killed by their own in hundreds. Again, citing John F, where is your bleeding heart? Taro