#1. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. People need to stop quoting an administration lie. They've done everything possible to make us think Saddam had something to do with it... He didn't. Get over it. The guy who did, Osama, yeah, we let him get away, a total of three times.
#2. We aren't leaving Iraq anytime soon. This fact has made us an even bigger target than pre- 911. You are less safe today than you were yesterday.
#3. You are now fighting an enemy that has no face, no uniform, no discernable stance on anything, except its' stated hate of the West. It is a fight which simply cannot be won. You can try all you want, send all of our troops, all of our technology.... you can beat and torture all you want (making a mockery of what we hold dear) and you will get nowhere. The simple truth is, like at the travelling circus, you can't play "whack-a-mole" and actually win... whenever you hit one mole, another two pop up. We will mire ourselves in the region, and lose vast amounts of manpower, money and international capital... for what? Iraq doesn't want to become a democracy, no matter how much we tell them they should. They DON'T want your life anymore than you want theirs shoved down your throat. At least, not the Iraqis that are left in the country, the upper and middle classes have all fled the country. In case anyone needs a rehash: A stable democracy requires a STRONG, INFORMED middle class.
We cannot win in either case...stay or leave. There was a time period where we could have... but that is long gone.
#4. When did this country get so stupid and SCARED.? Was anyone really that surprised about 9-11? They tried 5 times prior to take the towers down for crying out loud. Woe to us, we didn't see it coming.? Our behavior in the past 5 years is that of a pestulent, scared child. Attack everything and everyone....that's all I tend to see everyone propose... turn the ME into a glass wasteland.... Do You realize how incredibly weak and stupid that sounds??? I was incredulous when Twitt Romney actually advocated a nuclear first strike option PUBLICALLY. You may have that option, but you don't let the genie out of the bottle. Bullies, scared bullies, always advocate attack.
#5. How do we fix it? We use our good old american inginuity, and get our rear ends off of oil. We start NOW.... we become the first, we get it done. Once we don't give a crap about their oil...we're out of there. Once we're out of there, they go back to fighting each other. Whatever you think the reason is now.... Oil is and has always been the key fact we care about anything in the middle east. We tighten up the borders, while still maintaining some semblance of America. We weather any attack that comes our way, and punish those that are directly responsible. We stop exporting weapons to any damn country that shows us a fistfull of money. This country is the largest exporter of weapons on the planet...We've served as a destabilizing influence in EVERY regional conflict in the past 50 years. In short WE WORRY ABOUT US... this country.... this crumbling infrastructure... this obesity laden population without reliable access to healthcare. In case anyone failed to notice... New Orleans... a major metropolitan US city... still not fixed. Bridges collapsing. Steam pipes in new york... from the 1890's, blowing out. One BILLION dollars a day going to Iraq, and rebuilding some ******* country we had no reason to destroy in the first place. (By the way, that's 5 dollars a day, out of every US citizen's pocket, going to that country. $1,825 per year, for each and every citizen of this country.)
And my damn power lines are still above ground in Florida.
Can we use our damn heads?
