On Mar 31, 2006, at 10:50, Betty Ann Rice wrote:
I DO think the decision to enter Iraq for world peace and democracy
was correct, and remember, all the soldiers there are volunteers.
And lets make lace....
Not fair; you've had your say twice, and most of us not at all... :)
Yes, the soldiers in this war are volunteers (at least the American
ones are; Polish ones are not). And we have betrayed them twice: once
by sending them into this misbegotten and unjust war on the basis of a
pack of lies form the "head". We betrayed them for the second time,
when we started trimming veteran benefits (pensions and health) once
they come home maimed in body and soul. And we've done the same for
their widows, when they come back dead.
That's not even allowing for the Home Guard, which, instead of being in
place to help, _at home_, during the Katrina disaster, was out there,
ill-trained and worse-equipped.
As for "world peace and democracy" and "freedom" (from your original
message)... not only do those words not belong on the same page with
"invasion of Iraq"; they're from two different dictionaries...
There had been no WMDs in Iraq (which the White House *knew*, whatever
they chose to tell the hoi-polloi, United Nations and the Congress).
There had been no members of AlQuaeda and no other terrorists; the
ruling terrorist (Saddam) took care of *that*. OTOH, according to
reports, the daily number of dead Iraqis (not counting the
self-blowers, but counting all their -- and our -- victims, including
civilians), in the inferno we had started, is now matching that of the
daily dead during his rule.... So much for "freedom" and "peace" we
brought to Iraq.
"Democracy"... We seem to be taking the "I'll teach you democracy, if I
have to kill every last one of you" approach to the "exercise" in Iraq.
And, when they show what they'd "learnt", we don't like it; just the
other day Clueless George was drumming his feet in a temper tantrum
about whom they elected as their prime minister.
So, the correct answer to Cindy Sheehan's "why?" is: "because of the
hubris and the criminal negligence of those in charge at the White
House: the Clueless George, his puppet-master the Man (Cheney), and the
Thug (Rumsfeld)".
In Virginia, when you cause a car accident, you don't have to be drunk
to be charged with negligence; it's enough that you fell asleep or even
lost concentration for a moment and lost control of your vehicle. Why
should lower standards of accountability apply to the rulers of the
whole country?
Yours, waiting for the midnight knock on the door -- just like in the
good, old commie Poland -- now that the Big Brother is watching not
just "them", but "us" as well...
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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