Speaking of unanswered questions, I still have one out there.
Since out reasons for invading Iraq (killing over 10,000 civilains, injuring ewns of thousands of civilians, killing over 800 of US service people and seriously injuring upwards of 20,000 US serive people) has been reduced down to Saddam was a bad man, why didn't we just assasinate him?
Oh? Against the law? Hmmmmmm? Reread the numbers of casualties in the last paragraph before playing that card.
Now my pal, Dougie, says that we "lefties" aren't happy that Iraq has been turned over to the Iraqis. Well, first of all, these Iraqis weren't elected, but appointed by the Bush folks. Second, what makes anyone think fir one minute that Iraq has been turned over to anyone? This will prove to be nuthin' more than a political smokescreen by the Bush folks. They are very good at smokescreening responsibility for their screwups. But the patterns are starting to get predictable. They either lie or blame it on Clinton...
Now I'll be the first to say that it would be very nice to have sometyhing that looks like peace (or even no war) in the Middle East but it *can't* happen with current administartion's thinking. These guy's *cowboy* foriegn policy has alienated the world community to such an extent that these guys can't fix their massive screw ups. Can John Kerry? Maybe and maybe not. But the current crew *can't*!...
Reality is that no matter how long the US stays in Iraq and no matter how many American working class kids are killed and how many of American working class tax dollars are squandered, without a massive effort by the world community, Iraq will slip into a civil war when the US pulls out.
Those of us on the anti-war side of the equation pointes this out during the debates in the run-up-to-war yet no one from the other side responded because they were too busy beating the Big Three Drum (mushroom clouds, WMD, Saddam/Al Quida/9-11). Now the sad reality is hovering and waiting to roost and I'm still not hearing any real plan for creating *this* democracy in Iraq.
And I'm still waiting on an answer on the Saddam assasination question.
And I'd still like to know why the US didn't real Saddam back into the fold. (Oh yeah, we don't do that with bad men...) We don't? When did that policy go into effect?