--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > <snip> > > The overwhelming reason we are there today is to > > create a democracy in a region that is traditionally > > held by dictators or absolute monarchies that have > > a reason to suppress their people and keep them > > ignorant and in poverty so as to be able to maintain > > their own power. > > Actually, Iraq was quite prosperous until > sanctions were imposed. Poverty wasn't a > big problem. Iraq had made great strides > in education as well under Saddam.
The Sean Penn puppet from Team America, World Police: Last year I went to Iraq. Before Team America showed up, it was a happy place. They had flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles. > > > This leads to anger, hostility and > > hopelessness which gives rise to terrorism. > > So, it seems, do crippling sanctions followed > by a U.S. invasion when the invaders make no > plans for what happens afterward. > > > When a people can have more stake in their own future > > via a government they control through elections they > > are far less likely to want to make war on others so > > they can focus on developing their own country > > Right, once they've elected a government that is > incompetent to impose security, the people can > start focusing on civil war and on throwing the > invaders out. > > > and thus less likely to get involved in supporting > > terrorism. > > There was no terrorism in Iraq under Saddam, > other than what Saddam himself engaged in. > > But there is now. > > > The State Department was all for maintaining the > > status quo which would only perpetuated the current > > state in the middle east. > > The State Department had developed extensive post- > invasion plans for security, reconstruction, and > economic development, which the Defense Department > scrapped without even looking at them. Instead > they installed political appointees with no > experience to run the country, most of whom didn't > even know the difference between Sunni and Shi'ite. > > *Bush* didn't know the difference when he was > planning the invasion, and even after it was > explained to him, he didn't do anything to prevent > the sectarian violence that he was warned over and > over again would inevitably break out once Saddam's > iron hand was removed. > > The only way the U.S. is going to be able to restore > order in Iraq is by putting in power a strongman who > will be a puppet to U.S. interests. > > Ahmed Chalabi, anyone? > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
