Subj : The War Has No Clothes
To   : Sam Alexander
From : Finnigann
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 05:42 pm

-=> Sam Alexander wrote to Frank Reid <=-

 SA>   Re: The War Has No Clothes
 SA>   By: Frank Reid to Finnigann on Thu Sep 29 2005 06:48 am

 >   Re: The War Has No Clothes
 >   By: Finnigann to Patch on Wed Sep 28 2005 10:48 am
 >
 >  > Everyone keeps saying 'w' isn't as dumb as he seems... Well just when is
 >  > gonna show us he isn't as dumb as he seems?
 >
 > What would you have us do?  Turn tail and run, leaving millions of Iraqi
 > citizens who had hopes for a secure future to suffer whatever torture that t
 > ensuing chaos and civil war bring them?  Screw 'em, right?  Hey, why don't w
 > just nuke every major city in Iraq and let 'em start from scratch?
 >
 > Every U.S. servicemember casualty is a great loss, but it doesn't mitigate t
 > fact that they are doing an honorable and necessary job in Iraq to establish
 > stability in the country and throughout the entire region.  Every solider in
 > Iraq knows that and is willing to stand, fight and win for that greater good
 >
 > So how can one take a position, at home in an armchair and watching like som
 > spectator sport, that their dedication, courage and integrity are fruitless?
 > It is patently inane for anyone to ever suggest "I support our troops, but I
 > don't support the war."  The two concepts are mutually exclusive.
 >
 >

 SA> What Bush is trying to do will never succeed.  He's trying to reshape
 SA> the Iraq people to work like the US.  The very nature of the Muslim
 SA> religion in part goes against the very 'freedom' we're trying to give
 SA> to them, and trying to change their religion, no matter how crazy their
 SA> religion is, isn't going to happen.  Also without the Iraqi people
 SA> supporting his efforts the second we leave it'll revert back to what it
 SA> was before.

 SA> As for our troops, they are dieing for freedom, but not ours -- they're
 SA> dieing for the Iraqi freedom.  If those folks can't stand up and defend
 SA> themselves who are we to take on this roll?  250 years ago the US was
 SA> ran by the British, and though we had alittle help from the French the
 SA> US citizens led their own revolt and kicked the brits out.  If we had
 SA> tucked tail and taken it like the IRaqi folks are doing now, we'd be
 SA> talking like Patrick Stewart and have the Queen on the $1 bill.

Really? It looks like they have stopped the mightiest military force in the
world. (at least the National Gaurd part of it)


 SA> Also check this out --
 SA> http://media.planetvids.com/pvids/Gov_Bush_vs_Pres_Bush.wmv

 SA> Not that I liked Bush before, but this'll give many a new opinion on
 SA> who flipflops.




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