Mervyn Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, George Bush's intelligence sent 1,300 young > Americans to their deaths. And thats not the bad > news. > The bad news is that the American youth in Iraq are > getting killed at a higher rate every passing day. > Mario replies: 1. It was intelligence believed by the entire world community since 1991, ten years before George Bush became US president, and decided that 12 years of defying the UN was enough.
2. 1,300 American dead, and 10,000 wounded, though sad and unfortunate, is not the criterion by which such momentous decisions are made, and the Americans who died understood that and had volunteered to risk their lives in the service they provided for others. 3. Americans are not getting killed at a higher rate. The bad news is that the insurgents are targeting and killing innocent Iraqis in an attempt to terrorize them. It is not working as almost 15 million have registered to vote, including several Sunnis. The good news is that Grand-Ayatollah Ali al Sistani has issued a fatwa to Shias that they should vote. The worst news is that people like Mervyn continue their drumbeat of opposition to the liberation of Iraq, while living safely in a system of freedom and democracy. Apparently it's fine for them, but not for the Iraqis.
