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B'Aqu-anir · 10-05-06

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Originally Posted by Manifesto

while I agree with you on principle... I dont read articles that someone posted on a picture
its against my policy.

The text of the editorial follows my response to Billy’s comments.

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Originally Posted by Billy the Kidd

Let me guess it goes something like

OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING THE REPUBLICANS ARE MAKING TERRORIST RECRUIT MORE OH NOOOO!!!!!!

Oops, ya guessed wrong. The worlds not coming to an end, as much as radical X’tians would like it to be, and the ‘Publicans didn’t get us into this by themselves. The Dummycrats were arm in arm with Shrub and his cronies marching into war in Iraq. There were very few of us who opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning.

The text of the editorial in the Seattle Time follows.

Are You Safer Now Than You Were In 2000?
By Steven Greenebaum

The President wants us to forget the Iraq war, and let him do what ever he wants because “only he” can keep us safe. The emperor Bush isn’t wearing any clothes, and it’s time someone called him on it.

George Bush can keep us safe? In 2000 the United States elected a Republican President, a Republican Senate, and a Republican House. At that time the United States had a huge budget surplus. Our Social Security and Medicare problems were solvable.

Today, all but forgotten because of the war in Iraq, we have a massive budget deficit. Both Social Security and Medicare are well on their way to going broke. Does that make you feel safe?

After 9-11, the country supported going after the terrorists hiding in Afghanistan. But then the Bush administration decided to leave the fight in Afghanistan unfinished and go after Iraq.

Going to war in Iraq meant leaving the war on terrorism on hold. The war on terrorism was in Afghanistan, NOT Iraq. Did starting a new war make us safe?

The Bush Administration claimed there were ties between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda. There weren’t. It claimed Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program. He didn’t. It claimed that there was a massive program to produce weapons of mass destruction. There wasn’t. It asked Congress for a carte blanche to go to war with Iraq, promising that war would be the very last resort. But it wasn’t.

By waging an unnecessary, badly executed war in Iraq, the Bush Administration succeeded in convincing even moderate Muslims that the United States is fighting a holy war against them. Has that made us safe?

The Iraqi war has created a recruiting and training ground for terrorists (all of our intelligence agencies agree this is true). Did that make us safe?

The war has also removed the only natural counterbalance to radical Iran. Saddam and Iran were mortal enemies. Now Iran has no counter-force to it power. Did that make us safe?

By pouring billions of dollars into Iraq, by squandering more than 2500 precious American lives and many thousands of American wounded, the United States is ill equipped to protect itself. It’s not just Katrina. Our ports are under protected. Our chemical plants are under protected. Much of the U.S. remains vulnerable because, “there just isn’t enough money,” while our armed forces are stretched to the limit. Has that made us safe?

By pulling out of Afghanistan prematurely in order to invade Iraq, we have left Afghanistan in peril. Now the Taliban is back – both threatening the government and exporting massive amounts of drugs – largely because we didn’t finish the job we started. Osama bin Laden remains at large. Has that made us safe?

The resounding answer to these questions is NO! The actions of the President and Congress have put our seniors at risk, put our troops at risk and created a breeding ground for new terrorists which virtually assures that we will indeed be attacked again. The President is right that we can’t simply leave Iraq. But should the same people whose mistruths, half-truths, and total ineptness have turned a war that never should have been fought into a disaster, be trusted to have the honesty and competency to solve the problem they created. Does that make sense?

The Bush Administration is good at spin. It is GREAT at spin. But will sin make us safe?

Criticize the Democrats all you want, and there’s plenty to criticize. But this much is clear. Six years of the emperor Bush and a Republican Congress have left the United States massively weakened and very unsafe indeed.