On 5/8/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or we could just pack up, go home, and fight an intelligence based, > mostly covert, special forces war. That's my vote.
Same here. Spend the money on intelligence and homeland security. 9/11 happened because we *HAD* no homeland security, and our intelligence was crap. I see two sorts of problems in Iraq. #1 - those that are caused by us being there. #2 - Those that are not caused by us being there. #1 is easily fixed by withdrawal. #2 is not our problem to solve. The cost of this war cannot ONLY be measured in American lives. I don't care if we kill the terrorists, or how many. That's a good thing. But in fact thousands upon thousands of Iraqi's - most of them innocent bystanders or actually trying to help - those death's are important too. The "liberal media" said back in October that over 600,000 Iraqi's have died in this conflict. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001442.html A more conservative estimate at http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ puts the current count somewhere around 10% of that, or 65,000 iraqi civilians. Either way... that's a lot of human life, and you can bet that most of those 65,000 or 650,000 people were not fighting us. Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234198 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
