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Why Are We In Iraq?
Raymond Kraft is a lawyer and writer living and working in Northern California | 01-21-05 | Raymond Kraft

Posted on 01/21/2005 7:48:22 PM PST by granite

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I was asked to re-post this article in this forum. Sorry for the dupe.

I truly believe the above to be a most realistic threat, not to the republican nor democratic party, but, far more important....to our children, grandchildren, dear friends and all fellow Americans.

1 posted on 01/21/2005 7:48:22 PM PST by granite
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To: pitbully

ping


2 posted on 01/21/2005 7:49:11 PM PST by granite (DU FU Fan)
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''Peace Activists'' always seem to demonstrate where it's safe and ineffective to do so: in America. Why don't we see peace activists demonstrating in Iran, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, and North Korea; in the places in the world that really need peace activism the most?

Good one.

3 posted on 01/21/2005 7:58:02 PM PST by T. Buzzard Trueblood
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To: granite; All

bump


4 posted on 01/21/2005 7:59:29 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: granite

Bump.


5 posted on 01/21/2005 8:00:09 PM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: granite

Chilling... and spot on.


6 posted on 01/21/2005 8:00:30 PM PST by SugarLandTexas (Keep Rather on the air. He's a constant reminder NOT to believe anything has changed.)
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To: granite

There are a couple of historical errors in this, but overall I agree completely.

The parallels between WWII and the War on Terror are uncanny. The only question is whether we'll learn from history.


7 posted on 01/21/2005 8:00:35 PM PST by Middle-O-Road (In favor of blowing all terrorists to China, via other hotter places where they'll linger a while.)
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To: granite
Too manyAmericans JUST DON'T GET IT!

...because MSM is controlling the minds of average American. Now who is behind it?

8 posted on 01/21/2005 8:02:27 PM PST by Leo Carpathian
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To: granite

"But the stakes are at least as high: a world dominated by representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal freedoms--or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, and by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia. "

If we had any kind of worthwhile media, they would be drumming this into everyone's head, instead of trying to prevent Bush from literally saving the world from this horrendous threat.


9 posted on 01/21/2005 8:03:31 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: Middle-O-Road
The parallels between WWII and the War on Terror are uncanny

I've noticed that as well. Lots of naysayers didn't want us to get involved in that one either, Joe Kennedy Sr. was one of the most notable.

I sometimes wonder what the European countries are thinking. And I sometimes think we shouldn't care. But that is not what our country is about. We have been in the past, and always will be, the country looking out for those who don't have the sense to look out for themselves.

10 posted on 01/21/2005 8:06:42 PM PST by LisaMalia (hmmmmmmm)
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To: granite
In World War II the United States averaged 2,000 KIA a week for four years.

Just wow.

11 posted on 01/21/2005 8:08:19 PM PST by what's up
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To: granite

BTTT


12 posted on 01/21/2005 8:09:19 PM PST by auboy (Dishonesty is NOT a virtue.)
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To: granite; Howlin; Liz; ALOHA RONNIE; RonDog

And, this morning, Katie Couric had a special segment on new baby names. (How the left names the aborted, I'm not really sure...)


13 posted on 01/21/2005 8:11:41 PM PST by Libloather (IRAQ - the vote!)
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To: LisaMalia

In some ways it's fortunate that we have WWII as a lesson because it makes it very clear what the risks are for inaction in the face of crazies. We can either stand up to them, or we can let them succeed, which is unthinkable.

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like now if the Nazis had won. Not a pleasant place to live. And yet the price to defeat them was terrible - 70 million people died in WWII.

Bad as the Nazis were, I almost think the terrorists are worse. At least the Nazis weren't trying to shove their perverted religion down our throat. Both make me shudder.


14 posted on 01/21/2005 8:14:15 PM PST by Middle-O-Road (In favor of blowing all terrorists to China, via other hotter places where they'll linger a while.)
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To: granite
Thank you for that article.

It's dead on.

15 posted on 01/21/2005 8:19:29 PM PST by TexasCowboy (Texan by birth, citizen of Jesusland by the Grace of God)
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To: granite

Thanks for posting this. Gives one perception and the bigger picture.


16 posted on 01/21/2005 8:25:51 PM PST by Blowtorch
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To: Middle-O-Road
Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like now if the Nazis had won

I'm sure neither of us would be posting messages here. Or even own a computer. I could go on and on, but like you, I shudder to think what life would be like.

Actually, I probably wouldn't have even been conceived.

17 posted on 01/21/2005 8:31:59 PM PST by LisaMalia (hmmmmmmm)
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To: granite

read later


18 posted on 01/21/2005 8:33:25 PM PST by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Middle-O-Road
Bad as the Nazis were, I almost think the terrorists are worse. At least the Nazis weren't trying to shove their perverted religion down our throat. Both make me shudder.

What the old media will not tell you is that the Baathist regime in Iraq was a direct descendant of NAZI Germany. All of Saddam's officers were required to read Mien Kampf.

19 posted on 01/21/2005 8:36:34 PM PST by marktwain
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There are a couple of historical errors in this,....

No offense, but I wish people wouldn't do this....if there is a problem with a piece....say what it is....and give some of us ignorants a chance to learn something!

I am inclined to believe that usually when people do this, they mean "I disagree with some particular assertion the author has made, but I am too smug to explain why, so I will pretend that everybody else agrees with me."

20 posted on 01/21/2005 8:36:45 PM PST by B.O. Plenty
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