Well said, zk. “And people who get their guidance from god are, in my experience, no more likely to be “good” than those who don’t. In fact, in many cases, it gives them license to do bad things.” Don’t you think Bush is using his religion to kill, just as the terrorist are doing? Doesn’t he feel it is his mission, his calling from God, to liberate Iraq? He is misuing religion too… If he really cared about the plight of Iraqis, why isn’t he in Darfur or Sudan? If we only knew the real reason for the Iraq occupation… If Bushy boy only had the courage to admit he made a mistake… If he had not deliberately misled us about the WMDs (you know ,the lie he told so he could get Congress support for the war.)
The Iraq fiasco is making us weaker in the Middle East, as now Iran and North Korea are emboldened. They see that we have no ability to defeat the Iraqis. We proved to the rest of the world, via our mistake in Afghanistan and Iraq, that our military is not adept in these insurgent type of wars.
PD, what is it exactly that you want to fight for? The fight in Iraq is being lost. Is that because the soldiers lack testosterone so they don’t have the fortitude to kill enough Iraqis and torture them sufficiently? What would satisfy you?
Is this war in Iraq really about our freedom, or is it about Bush’s delusion of doing God’s will by overthrowing Middle East governments or his wish to give contracts to his buddies at Halliburton?
What is really interesting, is why I even have to ask about his motives. I’m just a regular person who counts the minutes to Sunday night at 9pm for the latest fiascos on Desperate Housewives, and believes most things people tell me, if they make sense. Why do I mistrust our reasons for being in Iraq? Simply, it’s because the story we’ve been given doesn’t make sense!
