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I heard the President's speech today at the Navel Academy about a so-called plan for victory in Iraq. And I hate to admit it but I actually agreed with the main premise of his speech that we can't just pull out now. The simple obvious reason is the Iraqi's can't defend themselves against these "scum of the earth" maniacs, the media has labeled as insurgents. This opposition to human decency that has filled the power void we created in Iraq by disposing of Sadaam (even though he's still kicking) is possibily a greater threat with their killing of innocent civilians than Sadaam was.
But what infuriates me and I'm sure every other person that gets their information about the world and politics from any other source than Republican propaganda or "Rapture" seeking preachers is we are in this mess (we can't just pull out of ) because this President and his cohorts, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the other neo con advisors were dead wrong, dis-honest, and thoroughly incompetent in their justification and management of this war of choice.
What infuriates me is this war has not made us safer. It has not lessened the threat of world wide terrorism, and instead it has increased it by creating more terrorists and more people world wide that distrust and dislike the US. This initially, unnecessary war has killed over 2,000 US soldiers and countless innocent Iraqi people. It has cost the US taxpayer over $250 billion so far, while we are burdened with defecits and lack of funds for basic needs at home. It has opened up Iraq to unbelievable corruption and dishonesty by the administration's hand picked
corporate cronies assigned the lucrative re-building process. It has strengthened our real enemy, Al Qeada, and sadly and stupidly diverted our attention from eliminating them. It has strengthened the Taliban's dangerous re-positioning in Afghanistan, because of our lack of focus on the real enemies. It has strengthened the repressive theocracy of Iran and their hatred of America and it has given these Mullahs and their poisonous anti-American, anti freedom repression a very strong foothold in the new government being formed in Iraq. And it has created a new threat in Iraq suicide bombing of innocent men, women and children.
The most infuriating part of all of this mind boggling incompetence and abuse of political power by the President and his men in waging this war on terror on the wrong battlefield is we have to wait three more years to hold them accountable for this mess they've got us into with no exit strategy.