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I've been saying this in posts on this forum for quite a while and it's gratifying that an Iraqi sees the contradiction as well. Although I've always supported the WOT, I've had this sick in the gut feeling for quite a while now that the Iraqi people wouldn't know what to do with freedom if they had it. Turns out that may well be the case.

Although I've always supported the WOT, I've had this sick in the gut feeling for quite a while now that the Iraqi people wouldn't know what to do with freedom if they had it.

Well, remember the Prez is also a cheerleader so he is gonna provide a lot of encouragement. But ultimately, if the Iraqi people can't bring democracy to reality...at least they had their shot.

But back to the Prez and the WOT. The violence in Iraq is a damn shame but Shia and Sunni have been killing each other for centuries. The most important outcome so far is that we have Iran encircled and I would imagine we are focusing our intel resources there...on the ground and in the air.

Bush is smart but not so smart as to be dense. I have vacillated up and down on this whole thing, I somehow I expect that we can have confidence that the Prez knows the bottom line and is adjusting the strategy accordingly.

Were you born and raised in the USA?
Are you near any major city where illegals have been protesting against the laws in the USA, in the last week or so?
Did you stand and counter protest?
Or did you think it was too dangerous, and that you might well be physically injured?

This is the USA.
WE have not lived under the iron fist of a murderous dictator for several generations, nor have WE been subjected to the pervasive rule of noxious Islam, which is not a religion, but is a cynical, criminal bastardization of several religious theologies, mixing a putative religious flavor with thuggish communism.
With all in it's path under constant threat of death for the slightest noncompliance "offense" against the local mobster/cleric/Imam/government bureaucratic thugs.

Before you ask "those" people to stand up and be counted under immediate threat of certain death, so as to appear "worthy" to you , ask yourself why you did not daily, as a free citizen of the USA, do the incredibly less dangerous task of maintaining your own freedoms and what is left of our society?

We once had a free republic.
It is no more.