hows that for a role reversal?

I’m pretty sure insHannity won’t like that nod

“The Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld idea was to bunch as many terrorists in Iraq as possible and then kill them. I would say that has worked pretty good.”

Saddam had kept these extremist groups out of Iraq, and they’ve only come because we are there. For us to force the battleground of our war against terrorism onto the Iraqi people is morally wrong. While the philosophy of ‘better there than here’ is not itself wrong, making the battleground ‘there’ Iraq instead of a more culpable nation (for instance Afghanistan) was an ethically wrong decision. While it is true we haven’t left Afghanistan, we didn’t need to spread the violence to Iraq as well.

We can all see that the war on terror is not over, especially in light of the recent attack in India which many believe was carried out by Al Qaeda under a false name. I’m not sure where you got your data saying “70% approve of the Iraq war.” The most recent poll I could find on the fly has about 60% of Americans believing that going to war in Iraq was the wrong decision, and older polls from CNN, USA Today, Rasmussen, and Zogby all reflected that. (there was a more recent CNN poll with 70% opposition to the war, but although the poll purported to be ‘American opinion’ the survey was presented to Canadians, go figure. Typical CNN stunt.)

I would encourage you however not to use poll data as evidence for your opinion. Even if 90% of Americans believed that the Iraq war was right, I would argue against it on the same reasons I’ve espoused here. I agree with you, the Americans I know don’t want to be conquered either, but there is a profound difference between defeatism and opposition to a morally apprehensible war. Lets win the war on terror, but lets not forget our morals in doing so.
-James Thoburn

I agree with you on Sean Hannity, but Ann is funny in a Don Rickles sort of way. Rush too, has humor which I like. I don’t agree with you on Iraq. All this anti-war talk reminds me of a passage in “For Whom the Bell Tolls” in which one of the soldiers says “Lieutenant, why don’t we just go home and then the war would be over?” The lieutenant replies “You sound like a man who has never been conquered and you don’t know what it is like.” The Americans I know have no intension of being conquered so we fight. You obviously forget the 70% approval for the Iraq war. The Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld idea was to bunch as many terrorists in Iraq as possible and then kill them. I would say that has worked pretty good.