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To: i-node who wrote (434321)	11/11/2008 1:11:29 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574076

I know the history of the Middle East very well and invading Iraq was a senseless and expensive act that has set back American/Muslim relations by decades. This statement is nonsense on both points. To suggest that "American/Muslim" relations have been set back is utterly stupid. What's stupid is you thinking you know what you're talking about. The Iraq war is over period. The way things are looking the Afghan war will have to be wound down as well or our allies will have to make bigger steps up to the plate. We need the money spent on these wars for economic stimulus. As short-memory liberals are prone to doing, you've apparently forgotten where "American/Muslim" relations were on 9/12. Fukk 9/11. That's right.......you all have turned a tragedy into a misguided cause celebre. Now you can run to your neo friends and say see...the liberals already forget. And just for the record......American/Muslim were bad BEFORE 9/11 because of past American interventions in the ME. In fact, they contributed to the 9/11 event. If you think it was "senseless" to free a nation of 25 million people who hated Americans, saving lives in the process, creating a democracy in the heart of the Middle East, then you know absolutely shit about the subject. Once we are out of Iraq, if the withdrawal is not handled foolishly by the incoming administration, we will be left with an ally in the region and that is priceless. Creating a democracy in the middle of the ME? How arrogant you are. Whatever Iraq is at the current time its not we consider to be a democracy. And there is no guarantee what's so ever that Iraq will become a true democracy in the future. Time will tell. But should it realize that goal was it worth it? No. The cost to this country was way over the top in terms of money spent and loss of prestige. It will be America's first and last attempt at nation building for a long time into the future if ever.