Should the U.S. Offer Iraq Statehood?

Sierra Times ^ | May 5, 2003 | J. Neil Schulman

[Paleo Conservative]

Hell No!

[Joe Hadenuf]

Oh please.......

[Psycho_Bunny]

Dude....hook me up with what you're smoking.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Hey, let Iraq in and Texas out. That will keep it at fifty.

[Cultural Jihad]

Even so, we ought to consider inviting Mexico into the Union. Each of their estados can become counties.

[ChemistCat]

Pleased to see you again. I met you in GEnie days. You probably don't remember CATSMEOW.

Read the RAINBOW CADENZA and it made a vivid impression on me. Taught me that some men and some women hate me just because I'm female...just as some foreigners hate Americans just because we're Americans. Funny how these things come around.

Interesting to see people reacting the way they are to this proposal of yours. Conservatives can be slow to appreciate possibilities outside the box. ;-)

[gcruse]

Good God, no.

[Mr. Mojo]

Could U.S. Senators from Iraq be any worse than the ones from California, Massachusetts, Washington, and New York? Could their congresscritters be any worse than our own "Baghdad" Jim McDermott, Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, Henry Waxman, or Charlie Rangel (to name but a few)?

Well, yes they could.

Let's just steal their oil and turn their country into one giant American military base. ....And perhaps turn Saddam's palaces - the ones still in decent shape - into giant resorts / golf courses.

[piasa]

They would have to ask for it before we could consider it.

And then jump through all of the hoops, set up their own "territorial" government, etc.

I doubt that's going to happen... there's not much incentive for it. If they ever joined, the Senator from New York and Dickie Invisibrows Gebhardt would rape them blind to get money for their socialist health care plan.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Yeah, well, then Canada would want in and their goes the neighborhood. :-)

[nopardons]

That's utterly ridiculous and then some ! Get a grip.

[nomad]

And what about all those islamo-terrorist sympathizers, not to mention the islamo-terrorists? As American citizens they would have every RIGHT to come here and go where they please within our nation, is that a comforting thought?

[Frohickey]

Sure. Why not? The Iraqis would have to have a state government, they would have to apply for statehood, and the 50 states would have to ratify it.

I would say the same for every country that we give foreign aid to. That would mean that Israel should be a state, or at least a territory, like Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands.

Make ALL offers of foreign aid, be foreign purchases, where land is purchases, or leased for 99 years at a time. No more foreign aid!

[Arkinsaw]

YES. ABSOLUTELY. When they become a State they will be under the complete control of the Federal government. They will be unable to get free and cause trouble again. They will of course then be subject to income tax and withholding and so will not have any money to transfer around to terrorists or others. A large number of them will then live off of the Federal government and be beholden to it and have no urge to cause it problems. Within a few years none of them will care about politics or religion as long as the beer is cheap and the NFL playoff game is not interrupted. Sounds like a great plan.

[ChemistCat]

That's different from the status quo how? Tim McVeigh being a citizen free to travel anywhere helped us how? Mohammed Atta not being a citizen restricted him? Not!

Our borders are no tighter than they were 9/10/01.

Terrorism is a fact of life now, and the cover of the passport doesn't matter. Expanding our system to more of the world may only be re-arranging the deck chairs, but how else are we going to keep Iraq free of Binladen/Saddamalikes?

[rmlew]

If you were trying to show the lunacy of neoconservative principles, I salute your piece of satire.

[MissAmericanPie]

I'm all for that.

[nomad]

Then instead of working to bring more terrorists into America perhaps we should be working to close down our porous borders and make entry into this country thru legal means a bit more scrutinized? And as long as you are quoting the same tired speeches about "the evil rightwing McVeigh", lets not forget the radical lefties of the past, as well as now, however the real question we need to ask is do we really need to import any more terrorists? As you`ve pointed out we have our own to deal with, don`t we have more than enough already? Maybe you should try asking some citizens of Israel for their thoughts on that one, they seem to have lots of experience.

[SoDak]

A couple of years of force-feeding them Hollyweird, MTV and Jerry Springer and their kids would be too fat, lazy, and disconnected to be islamo-crazies. (slight sarcasm alert)