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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 09:43 AM
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Should Iraq declare independence? Ask a Freeper!
Edited on Sun Oct-01-06 09:46 AM by Ezlivin
The Iraqis said in a recent poll that they would like the US to leave.

Do you disagree with any of the following grievances toward Bush and the US Occupation?

  • He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

  • He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.

  • He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil Power.

  • He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

  • For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

  • For protecting them, by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

  • For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

  • For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

  • For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury:

  • For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses.

  • He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

  • He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

  • He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

  • He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.



The reason I'm asking is that other people had these grievances a while ago and they took action by declaring their independence.

Do you think that the Iraqis should do the same?

:)

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