Philip P:
If you go to the first page of this thread, you’ll see a long exchange I had with Stickman explaining my position. If you’ll look at his tag-line, you’ll see what his response was.
The problem with his question (and tagline) is that it begs the question. To answer it you have to concede exactly what it is you disagree with - I might ask you if a man who is beating his wife should try to avoid breaking her nose. Obviously that’s a stupid question which you can’t answer. If you say yes, it means you think it’s fine that he’s beating his wife, you just think he should avoid beating her nose. If you say no… Any answer is the wrong answer. The right answer is to insist that he is wrong to be beating is wife in the first place, forget about her nose.
Regarding the fact that we are in Iraq, I’m very upset that President Bush has forced us into a position where there are no more good choices. Yes we are stuck there, but no matter what we do, it’s a net loss for the country. Leave now and all hell breaks loose, stay longer and more of our soldiers die… The only right answer is to pray for the safety of all those stuck over there and drive home the fact that the whole war was a mistake from the beginning.
The fact we are succeeding in Iraq remains lost on those who would have rather we not removed Saddam from power as we did. 25 million people are free that weren’t before we removed Saddam from power. That’s never a mistake.
The fact a democracy is located where there never has been one before isn’t a mistake. It’s a wonderful thing. The
mistake lies with those who will continue to regret we went to war at all, despite all the great longterm things that continue to come from our efforts and sacrifice.
The events below occured in the spring of this year.
In the aftermath of the deadly terrorist attack in
Hillah, which claimed some 125 lives,
two thousand local residents came out onto the streets and protested at the scene of the carnage, chanting “No to terrorism!”
In the latest of the recent series of demonstrations in
Baghdad,
2,000 Shia protested outside the Jordanian embassy, angered that the alleged perpetrator of the Hillah suicide attack was a Jordanian national.
In
Basra,
thousands of local university students were protesting the thuggish behavior of the followers of Muqtada al Sadr and other religious leaders. Raising signs “No to terrorism, No to [Religious] Parties”, Basra University is currently on strike, demanding the government provides better security and protection from the self-appointed guardians of public order.
Now imagine something like this taking place in the middle east while Saddam was in power and oil-for-fraud was the status quo…take your time
