Re: {OT} why we cannot leave iraq

DH, 9/13/2006, 9:39:21 PM,
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"badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We can't leave because it's now worse off than when we invaded it.

And prospects for improvement are dim. Google "devlin marine
intelligence anbar province"

Here's one of the hits:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/09/11/office
r_in_iraq_calls_anbar_situation_dire/

If I were Bush, I'd re-read that 18-page letter Ahmedinejad sent him
and think about whatever's in it in a new light. Iraq is some 60%
Shi'ite Muslim. Iran is some 97% Shi'ite Muslim. If Bush could
swing a deal that wasn't terminally painful to get Iran's politicians
and clergy to discourage sectarian violence against the Sunnis, he'd
be wise to do it.

Your ideals are admirable but you cannot negotiate with people who have
shown over and over again they do not respect any deals they have made
in the past. To do as you suggest will merely open more doors for the
radicalists to spread their influence. Iran's political advisors are
so savvy that any deal made with them will end up working to their
advantage. Besides, how can you expect rational negotiations with a
leader who publicly announces the Holocaust as a myth? Even if he
privately believed that by expressing it publicly he has lost all
credibility. And that doesn't even take into consideration all the
other outrageous claims Mr. Ahmadinejad has made in his short tenure as
President. I'm sorry, but I cannot trust the mullahs and their agenda;
they have brought nothing but misery and death to millions of people
since they have come into power.

--
"A zebra does not change its spots." ~ Al Gore
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