A perspective on the "Ground Zero Mosque" debate - with an Iraq twist ...

[zbdent]

Not your average zbdent tale.

Sent this information to the Bill Press Show.

My wife works with a woman whose son apparently has personal knowledge of what's happened in Iraq. All that I am relaying was through my wife.

This co-worker got a phone call from her son shortly before President Obama took the airwaves Tuesday night. Her son rattled off a number of cities in Iraq. As she pondered what he meant by these locations, he informed her of their connections.

According to the story, all of these places had buildings and schools and such built by the U.S. during the occupation.

And, according to the story, all of these were destroyed by "al Qaeda", which (allegedly) swooped in "after the troops pulled out".

After hearing that, this woman saw Obama on TV and was giving him the finger.

End of the story. Not quite. That was what my wife relayed to me.

After a while, I was thinking.

We invaded their country, bombed and killed plenty of Iraqis. As I understand it, bombs do not discriminate between terrorists and innocent bystanders. So we, as a nation, pissed off a whole hell of a lot of Iraqis.

But, since it was us, the good old "U.S. of A.", it's supposed to be all well and good, and we're "the good guys".

BUT ... we turned their country into chaos. Yes ... we deposed a really nasty guy (who, until 1990, was our buddy). But now ... what do the Iraqis have?

Well, we did all kinds of nice things for them, right? All these really nice schools and hospitals and such, right?

Here's the "punchline" ...

Kinda like those people who want to build a community center two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center.

Right?

[hollowdweller]

1. That sounds like the text of a right wing spam email.

It really does.

[Poll_Blind]

2. I read your message twice and I still get lost during the last 10 or so sentences.

:shrug:

PB

[uppityperson]

3. Thanking military for doing a few good things & killing a lot of people is not the same as hating

all Muslims for the actions of a few. The Iraqis had their country destroyed, many many people killed. In return, the military helped with a few schools and hospitals, though the education and health care systems are still a mess, a far cry from what they were before the invasion.

19 mostly Sauidi men bombed the USA and killed thousands. So now "those people who want a build a community center" to help spread peace and tolerance are lined together by the fearful ignorant with those 19 murderers.

No. Not the same.