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Edited on Wed Nov-07-07 12:09 AM by butlerd
much less willingly serve in Iraq? Even the diplomats don't want to go and now have to be forced into serving there! Bush lied and deceived the country (at least most of it anyway) into believing that a ruined and decaying small third world nation was a Hitlerian threat to the rest of the civilized world because its leader (and one time close ally of the US) was supposedly poised to attack us with a plethora of WMD (most of which WE sold him in the 1980's) and was in cahoots with the mother of all terrorists despite massive ideological differences, he lied, bribed, coerced, and intimidated Congress into giving him a blank check to attack Iraq in 2002 right in the middle of an election season no less, worked like hell to defame the UN (not to mention countries that disagreed with the need for war with Iraq) when they told the rest of the world over and over again that they simply couldn't find any WMD no matter how long and hard they searched for them, bribed, coerced, and intimidated several countries into joining his so-called "coalition of the willing" even though most of those countries' citizens didn't support the invasion/occupation (talk about Democracy in action!), invaded and illegally occupied a sovereign country despite the fact that we were not ourselves threatened much less attacked by them, let most of Iraq (except for the oil fields) slip into chaos and disorder following the fall of Saddam's regime (which was actually considered by some people within the CPA to be a "good thing"), and, lastly foisted radical right wing political/economic theories and desires onto Iraq without any consideration of international law much less the needs and desires of the Iraqi people, whom we were (at least partially) there to supposedly "liberate" and bring "democracy" to. NONE of this should have been worth ANYBODY dying for then and certainly not now and it will be VERY cold day in hell before I serve in Iraq even if I have to rot in jail for a few years (at least I'll be safe and keep my body in one piece). And despite the overwhelming support for our ongoing and seemingly never ending occupation of Iraq from the legions of loyal Young Republicans, right-wing talk radio hosts, and other "chickenhawk" Republicans, very few (any?) of them seem willing to actually stick their necks out to fight for that cause which suggests to me that, despite their constant exhortations that we need to boldly and unapologetically confront this new threat of radical Islam ("fight them there so we don't have to fight them here") when talking about Iraq and the so-called "War on Terror", they must not really believe in the cause all that strongly either or they'd already be on the front lines sacrificing their lives just like so many brave Americans (and even some celebrities) did during WW2, which they frequently (but incorrectly) use as a means of giving their support of the occupation of Iraq and the so-called "War on Terror" some desperately needed legitimacy. There will actually be NO need for a military draft to keep things going in Iraq IMHO because the war will be defunded and our troops will be home by the end of the very day that a draft for Iraq is ever mentioned as being a serious possibility. That could change, of course, if Bush, Cheney, et. al decide to widen the war to Iran or elsewhere. I pray every day that Bush, Cheney, et. al be restrained from and/or resist the overwhelming urge they (particularly Cheney) must have every day to "cross the rubicon" into an unnecessary and destructive military conflict with Iran over its supposed ambitions to obtain and/or make a nuclear weapon DESPITE the fact that Iran, as was the case with Iraq, is not even threatening us and whose possession of a nuclear weapon would almost certainly NOT portend a nuclear apocalypse (if we don't end up launching a "preventative strike" on them sometime down the road anyway).
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