Hardly. We have men and women in the line of fire over there to help keep Iraq in one piece while they work out their differences. Iran and Syria are pursuing destabilization in Iraq as a strategy against the U.S., and some Saudi elements (who are rich enough to finance whatever they want) are financing a huge jihadist movement. Essentially, if you are keeping score on the geo-political map, we have removed the military/nationalist dictatorship from Iraq and given the Iraqis the opportunity to replace it with a government of their choosing, while neighboring countries and Al Qaeda in particular are waging a war to destabilize Iraq as a means to defeat the U.S.
Again, in geo-political terms, we are taking on half the region, and we're allied with the other half of the region (not exactly, but Tukey, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Lebanon, Israel, Saudi Arabia* and Egypt are either neutral or allied with the U.S. in this conflict). Saudi has a big, privately financed (although by people in the royal family) jihadist movement in Iraq. The long and the short of it is that we are spending our people's lives and our money so that regular Iraqis can have the chance to live in a free, stable and prosperous country, governed by Iraqis elected by their fellow citizens whose rights are protected by a written constitution. You live in a peaceful democracy in a beautiful part of the world. Would you want to live in a military dictatorship? I wouldn't. No one should have to live in an un-free country. Without personal freedom, what do we have? Only what other impose on us. On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Vivec wrote: > I was just trying to understand the statement, as it seemed to > conflict with what happened is all :) > > On the one hand you say it's up to the Iraqis, and on the other you > invade their country supposedly to help free them. > > Is it like...rescuing a puppy from an abusive home and then setting it > loose in the street and saying that it's survival is now up to it....? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:256570 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
