Originally posted by Airhead
Just out of curiosity, have any of you who were formerly in favor of the Iraqi invasion changed your minds?
I was all for removing saddam, and I still am. I was not for taking the country over, occupying and telling them what they are going to do, when they are going to do it, who they are going to give contracts to, and writing THEIR constitution. If someone did that to our country, we would fight til our deaths. What we have done is conquered a country, and that is not what most here supported. The people to the far right on this BB backed Bush because they believed him when he used WMD and the war on terror as a reason to invade. Some even placed bets that we would find WMD in a matter of time. We now know that was a fools bet. I don't blame them, you should have faith in your president, not lack of. It should not be a time of "I told you so", it should be a time of "ok, what do we do now?"
It isn't about the war on terror anymore, it's about
big business, there is ALOT of money to be made in Iraq, and we want it(at least the administration does), and that is not what I support. I mentioned before that the actions of OBL handed us saddam, and that is great, but it also handed us a country and a business opportunity. For the past 50 years or so we have put in puppet governments in the middle east, and it has done nothing but backfire and built hatred toward us. Now we are doing it again. They should be deciding who writes their constitution, not us, they should decide what is in it, not us.
A total pullout might not be the answer, but we shouldn't be dictating their decisions, we should be letting them decide. It's THEIR country, not ours. What we are doing is close to expansionism, and that is not what our country is about.
This is from the new Iraq constitution, and Lazs2 hit the nail on the head "A government issued licence is a licence for corruption. A way to arm one sector of the population and leave another helpless." And the population is not stupid, they see it also.
Article 17: "It shall not be permitted to possess, bear, buy, or sell arms except on licensure issued in accordance with the law."
BTW, of course the letter is a fake. I like that add on of rape and burning fields, crack me up.