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Stories like this

Monex Fraud — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:06:22 -0700

Stories like this make me think that maybe the Bushes and McCains of the world don't have control over everything. It's a relief to say the least. Hopefully no more than 1 year in Iraq and we're gone.

Iran has a right to protect its interests

Monex Fraud — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:03:26 -0700

Iran has a fundamental right to protect its interests, and it obviously shares the same interests as the Iraqi Shiites. The U.S. could better police the world by mending fences with Iran and making friends out of an enemy. But I suppose that would expect a sane response from our insane leadership, something we can't expect.

Too much money involved to walk away from it. Even Obama is easing his get out now rhetoric.

When will peace began.

Motivational Poster Guru — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:53:56 -0700

I just hate hearing daily news of killing of innocent people in iraq, when will i have peace in continent, country. why are we fighting for???

Me, too

kc — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:13:23 -0700

I wish someone would explain that to me, too. Hillary is trying to be Bush Lite, Obama and Edwards are waiting to say whatever their consultants tell them to say. Richardson seems to be the only one with a clue here, and it's his view, not what his consultants tell him.

SO Mr. Caraway, it becomes

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:16:08 -0700

SO Mr. Caraway, it becomes evident to me that with all the military members, past and present having their say about the status of the Iraq War, why is Hillary, Obama and Edwards calling for keeping troops in Iraq until 2013. It seems that the message of the 2006 election was to end this war. Only one candidate is calling for the immediate end of this war with a regional plan to include Muslim countries of that region and leaving no troops behind. He is known throughout the world for his negotiating abilities and strengths and his diplomatic efforts just work. SO why is it that Hillary, Edwards and Obama supporters continue to support pro-war candidates, when they have a choice to end this war with Richardson? I hope you can explain this, cause I just can't quite grasp it.

cowardly post

American — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:47:07 -0700

Sounds like you are not very brave person. Must not be an american. Must be from some country America has helped in the past. A pity.

Back to the pub or ghast house for you my friend. Raise a couple glasses and tell your pals how you trashed those evil Americans on line again. The third glass will make you a hero. But when you sober up, you will still be an ungreatful person who has no grasp of history or of today.

Comment on "stupid Americans"

Ahmad — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:06:54 -0700

Anonymous loses credibility by overstating his/her case. I'm assuming that he/she is actually interested in an intelligent exchange of ideas, as opposed to spraying verbal abuse like shotgun pellets and not caring whether you are believed or not.

Yes, there is a huge amount of ignorance, arrogance, racism and xenophobia in the US. I also agree that these traits will cause a lot of inexcusable suffering (for other countries) and humiliation (for the US) both now and in the future. Case in point: Iraq.

However, consider three points. One, issuing a blanket condemnation of three hundred million Americans is, statistically speaking, ignorant. Two, you can find inspiring counter-examples if you try (which you probably haven't). Three, these unpleasant traits exist in sizeable quantities in your country as well.

Stupid americans

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:27:04 -0700

Americans are perhaps the most ignorant and stupid people on the planet. From top to bottom they are composed of illiterate racist idealogues. Not only will they lose this fight but they will lose every fight because they just don't get it through their thick, cheese-encrusted, fat-enveloped minds that they need to grow up and stop behaving like a bunch of churlish teenagers in the first throes of adolescence.

Looks like the Maliki

cls — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:11:38 -0700

Looks like the Maliki government has learned so much from the Bush administration!

That "committee" is called

cls — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:30:28 -0800

That "committee" is called Congress. You know, that co-equal branch of goverment named in the US Constitution?

Turning on us?

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:37:21 -0800

The situation in Iraq is complex yet the statements that there is no Iraq and that they will continue to bite the hand that feed them is based on wishful thinking of those that hope the US policy fails so they can say that they predicted it all along.

The Iraqi elections show what the Iraqi people think of their chances of having a country, whole, shared, and peaceful. They risked their lives to vote in huge numbers. A greater percentage of Iraqis voted than do in the USA. They didn't go to the polls to vote their country down but up.

The USA and its allies help support their opportunities with more than armed vehicles roaring down roads looking for bomb makers. We also build briges, set up communications systems, rebuild schools and hospitals. We provide for fuel, electricity, water and sewer in a country that has not been self-determinate in many years. When we leave they will still fight with each other, so did Germany after WWII, so does Northern Ireland, and other parts of the world. But the majority of people will have a life undreamed of in the history of the region. Businesses are flourishing, freedom is growing, ordinary life opportunities are blooming across the Iraq and Afghanistan.

Cornelius A. Van Milligen
CAVM@AOL.com

Vietnam lessons

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:26:59 -0800

What we should have learned from Vietnam and earlier is that the US press has the power to start wars and stop wars. At the end of the 1968 Tet Offensive the North Vietnamese army and the Vietcong realized that they had lost the war to the US and its allies.

Much to their surprise, instead of a ground invasion of the North which they expected, they saw US press reports about the war being hopeless and already lost. They were stunned. They quickly set about to capitalize on the negative press reports to force the American politicians to undo what had already been accomplished.

We do business in Vietnam and hear these reports from gloating Vietnamese veterans of the American War. They are overjoyed with Jane Fonda, Ramsey Clark and numerous American religious leaders who helped feed the destructive frenzy going on in the press.

Sound like dejavu all over again, doesn't it?

Cornelius A. Van Milligen
cavm@aol.com