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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend.... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (14759)	10/5/2005 4:48:41 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

True, it is supportive of the effort to redeem Iraq. I guess I should be glad it wasn't the typical all negative all the time we typically get from the left. What chaffs my butt is the general doom & gloom perspective to the near exclusion of the positive. And the automatic assumption (in a vacuum) to paint any problems as incompetence or mismanagement of the Bush Admin. Don't get me wrong. There are many problems in Iraq & the Bush Admin has made a number of mistakes along the way. Name one war & the aftermath where everything went perfectly in every respect. Iraq's infrastructure was disintegrating due to abject neglect (oil, water, sewage, health, communication, education, etc.) by the time Saddam was removed. It was compounded by decades of tyranny, terrorism & corruption & cronyism that left the entire country in a shambles, lacking the leadership, skills & resources to rebuild itself. The progress made in 2 1/2 years is absolutely astounding. There have been many more positive things that have happened since then that typically get minimized or ignored by the left. Yet they vastly overstate all real & perceived problems while failing to acknowledge a vast majority of the successes. And it's all Bush's fault. Let's ignore the Oil-for-Food scandal. Let's forget the widespread corruption (Saddam's bribes for protection) at the UN, France, Germany, Russia & China, ET AL, that helped ferment negative world opinion & opposition. Those countries & the UN helped rape Iraq & they wouldn't lift a finger to help fix her post Saddam. Instead they continued to obstruct. Let's forget that the left in the US & Europe has opposed & obstructed everything related to Iraq. Let's forget that the left manufactured numerous false scandals that wasted vast amounts of time & resources that could have been spent on fixing Iraq. Etc., etc., etc. Yup, I should be grateful that this lib wasn't 100% negative.