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Or, could I learn to stop worrying and love Iraq? A look at the next five years.

 
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  • Posted By: Yankee2020 @ 04/24/2008 12:02:36 AM

    Comment: Agree on that, 911 is probably no conspiracy. But you sait as good as it can be said: this country simply loves war. We need no reasons to make war. If we can't find one to look fair, we just make one up. At the end, who cares if it was made up, the masses will soon forget. Our violence-loving military culture likes to go out and play with its own very real weapons of mass destruction to see how many "enemies" it can kill with the latest laser-guided weaponry and then brag about it. Dead civilians? Ooops, but it's just "collateral damage". They are called that so that we don't feel bad about it. As long as most of the casualties are on the other side, as long big defense contractors are happy, hey, it's war for the "romance" of it as you said. Entire families dead, a wiped out country and death on every corner. Truly a classical romance.

  • Posted By: JohnGaltlaketahoe @ 03/28/2008 1:04:57 PM

    Comment: The neocon controlled Bush Administration staged the 9/11 attacks in order to justify the imperial conquest of American military power into the oil soaked Middle East.

    Only the oil remains. No weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. No mobile biological weapons labs were found in Iraq. Iraq did not seek to acquire yellowcake uranium. The aluminum tubes were not suitable for nuclear use. The lead hijacker in the events of 9/11 did not meet with Iraqi intelligence. Iraq did not provide chemical weapons training to Al-Qaeda. There was no relationship between Iraq and Al-Qaeda. Hussein nor Iraq was involved in the events of September 11, 2001. Only the oil remains. The anti-trust violations of this State Department and Executive Branch are massive.

    This war on terror has nothing to do with Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda was created and sponsored by the CIA during the 1970's Afghanistan war all the way up to the 1990 and the begining of the first Gulf War. Al-Qaeda involvement in the events of 9/11 has a sponsor.

    Dick Cheney's private and secretly held meetings described as his ENERGY TASK FORCE are swimming in anti-trust violations regarding the soaring price of oil which is not related to market conditions,,,, rather...related to the mechanisms of the US STATE DEPARTMENT AND THIS EXECUTIVE BRANCH waging illegal international aggression for the confiscation and hostile takeover of IRAQI NATURAL RESOURCES.

    • Posted By: CommonCents123 @ 04/23/2008 12:44:45

      Comment: We are not after oil. What is wrong with you people? Your conspiracy theories are ridiculous. People say the news is just feeding our fear. And you people are eating it up and overweight due to it. Take a look at reports before we went to war, and even before the Gulf War, and see the breakdown of where we get our oil from. Then take a look at the present, where people are pushing for hybrid cars and ethanol, etc. Is it because of the war and high oil costs? No. Its because people are worried about the environment. Do you really think we attacked ourselves? Lets face the facts, people. We didnt need a reason to go to war. Our country by default loves war. In a classical romance way. And ask the soldiers who have served in Iraq how many oil fields they were ordered to defend. I served twice and havent even seen one. Get your story straight before you spew a bunch of garbage from your mouth. You dont have to support the war we are fighting, but if you live in this country, you have to stand by the colors. If you think we attacked ourselves, then you need to get out of this country. I didnt fight a war for people who would think such a thing. I fought for those who support the nation, and the willingness to make sacrifices for the greater good. Whether they like the war or not, they are who i fight for. Not you conspiracy theorists. Take the foil hat off your heads and put down the dungeons and dragons toys. Get out of your moms basement and go outside. Reality awates you.

  • Posted By: JohnGaltlaketahoe @ 03/26/2008 9:15:29 PM

    Comment: No weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. No mobile biological weapons labs were found. Iraq did not seek to acquire yellowcake uranium. The aluminum tubes were not sultable for nuclear weapons. The lead hi-jacker in the events of 9/11 did not meet with Iraqi intelligence. Iraq did not provide chemical weapons training to Al-Qaeda. There was no relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda. Hussein nor Iraq was involved in the events of 9/11.

    One million Iraqi citizens have died. 2 million have been displaced. Four thousand US soldiers have died. 100,000 have been wounded physically and mentally.

    Only the oil remains. The conflicts of interest inherent in this Bush Administration are currently confiscating the natural resources of Iraq.

    Should this entire Executive Branch he hung? Should there simply be another election and a new President to continue this nightmare? Only the American electorate can decide what treason and insurrection against the American electorate means.

    But make no mistake....this Bush Administration used lies and innuendo to place the US military into Iraq.

  • Posted By: lovejusticepeace @ 03/20/2008 4:53:16 AM

    Comment: Cain killed Abel.
    Who is McCain going to kil ?

  • Posted By: Be- Real @ 03/20/2008 4:45:49 AM

    Comment: Its quite difficult to understand that so many peoplle dont realise that the war is about control for oil. Mr Alan Greenspan says it as well. The facts can be seen in Micheal Moores's Farenheit 9/11. Its all a commercial ploy as the big companies like General Electric which Mr Rumsfeldt has a vested interest ,gain in the sale of military hardware. So lets not be fooled by war of terror, Al Queeda was never in Iraq until the U.S. moved in. Iraq was in fact a more secular state than Iran under Saddam as can be seen in the dress code of the people before the invasion. Now all the war has done is give the shiite an upper hand, I mean look at the warmreception Ammedinajad got when he visited Iraq. The war has created a Shiite dominated nonster in Iraq, Iran, Hizbullah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

  • Posted By: Sleaves @ 03/20/2008 1:33:46 AM

    Comment: This has gone beyond 'ridiculous' when the rhetoric states that we must stay so the lossess we have suffered aren't for naught!
    We aren't surrendering in getting out of where we don't belong. Why should it take US 20+ years to realize (ala Vietnam) that we have no place in the world in which we try to subject our influence?
    We are not wanted in the ME and that is the reason for 9/11 and any subsequent attacks on our presense in the ME.
    Time to get out and dictate what we are willing to pay for OPEC oil and stop feeding and financing our detractors!

    there is no honor in stupidity and this has gone beyond stupid.

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 03/19/2008 3:33:11 PM

    Comment: Dickey does not know what he is talking about. [Indeed,coming across more like that other Middle Eastern expert,Jack Murtha,whose idea of a ''ready response force''outside of Iraq was to place them in Okinawa,12,000 miles away]. Dickey predicates his assertions on any presidency,GOP or Democrat,that would keep US forces in Iraq. Clearly Obama doesnt have the stomach for it,neither does Hillary[who is now tacking back to her leftwinged base taking advantage of Obamas Wright crisis,to demand immediate retreat from Iraq]. Thats two of three. McCain could concievably take up Dickeys ''Points'',however,and this is important,to acknowlage, that Dickeys ''oceans of blood''will become the new reality in a region that is in actuality,not theory,wracked by open civil war with actual movements of armies and militias,and the seziure and surrender of cities and territory.[the American idea of Iraqi ''civil war''is ridiculous. The blueprint of such a civil war may be found in 1994-1995 Afghanistan,between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance,which were based upon terrirtorial and urban conquest], Then too,how does a president Obama or Clinton deal with an Iranian seizure of the Straits upon a US withdrawl from Iraq,and the tandem development of an Iranian ICBM that Dickey appears nearly desperate to ignore? Obviously the fait accompli presentation of Iranian nukes creates a new Middle Eastern paradigm that all critics of the present administration are also willfully ignoring.

  • Posted By: tjs723 @ 03/19/2008 1:49:58 PM

    Comment: I am still shocked that people can still support this warknowing full well that President Bush deliberately misled us into it!! We've ruinded an country, the President is insisting that the Iraq oil law be passed which takes control of Iraq's oil production away from Iraq, and since casualties are way down recently, American's pay little attention. Oh, how far our morals ahve sunk!

    • Posted By: Sleaves @ 03/20/2008 01:40:13

      Comment:
      Good point!

      And I'd like to ask why, the oil reservesin Iraq should benefit the "people of Iraq" when the US oil reserves only benefit the uber rich???

  • Posted By: kirt @ 03/19/2008 1:13:44 PM

    Comment: Iraq is not Korea there is no cease of hostillity and there won't be. This is a war that did not need to happen. We are not viewed as liberators, the Shia aren't going to hand over some power to the Sunnies. The fighting continues on a daily basis and we are wrecking our Army over there. I'm tired of the political spin on this war. If you think the Shia will let Al-Qieda run around when we leave then you belive in WMDs, they hate each other. We where told after Sommalia that we should not be involved in nation building by the same people who want us to stay forever. There is no military victory in Iraq peace will only come with the political will that Iraq lacks.WHEN IT COMES TO iRAQ TRUTH WAS THE FIRST CASUALITY.

  • Posted By: ploughman @ 03/19/2008 12:30:17 PM

    Comment: It's one thing to have a situation like Korea, with 25K or so troops behind the DMZ, and quite another to have one like Iraq with 125K or so in guerrilla conditions and being shot at, even if only a few per week. The numbers of forces are too great to not compromise ability to respond to other crises in the world, and for the troops on repeated deployments it's like a game of Russian roulette. Your chance of getting hostile fire or action each day may be small, but if you keep repeating that process the cumulative odds actually become much greater. This war also has a high ratio of injured to killed.

    The only "good" way out is with a political settlement, and progress there has been so dismal as to call into question whether the parties really want one or whether they'd rather have a Yugoslavia-like situation where the country eventually breaks up. Think Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld gave any thought to that as a possible endgame back in 2003? Of course not...they were still fixated on welcomed-as-liberators and the beacon of democracy.. When that didn't work they didn't have a Plan B. Monumentally stupid and arrogant.

  • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 03/19/2008 11:59:53 AM

    Comment: What benifit?

  • Posted By: zissa @ 03/19/2008 3:16:01 AM

    Comment: the war againest Iraq was herrible... many parts got involved in it & no one was blamed.. who would care about those poor people in IRAQ!? who would get them back their houses, families they lost or even a whole life that seems will never be back!!?

  • Posted By: pjmatrix @ 03/18/2008 12:55:46 AM

    Comment: Al qaeeda exists coz of usa,if usa wasnt there alqaeeda wudnt be there...

  • Posted By: parvaz347 @ 03/17/2008 8:25:19 PM

    Comment: no comments
    just to the writer:
    the Persian Gulf is the Persian Gulf.
    remember this for your future articles
    do not try to use another word. Like Guld or Gulf state
    that is it
    long live with iran and iraq for ever.

  • Posted By: JohnGaltlaketahoe @ 03/17/2008 7:45:09 PM

    Comment: With George W. Bush, his corrupt Congress on both sides of the isle and a failed domestic and foreign policy, why would'nt the American electorate want a consumer protection hero and a statesman in the Executive Branch?

    The silencing of poltical voice in America is evident all across the nation. Has your local newspaper printed any coverage of the Silver Springs Maryland WInter Soldier hearings? How about any coverage of the secret session of the House of Representatives last Thursday night? A session in which all Congressional representatives were asked to sigh a non-disclosure statement. Your Congressional representative is supposed to serve, proctect and defend the Constitution the United States. Is this the way it is done while the US military is occupying a foreign nation in support of an incredibel Iraqi Parliament? I think not.

    Neither the Democrat or Republican candidates can achieve a reconciliation with the American electorate. Only a candidate willing to discuss the issue of George W. Bush, a corrupt Congress and Attorney General Office of the United States and illegal international aggression can change the course for American foreign policy and domestic policy. This Administration has waged economic warfare against the American electorate.

  • Posted By: silasphelps @ 03/17/2008 6:44:32 PM

    Comment: does anyone remember India's comment about an Iran with nuclear bombs?

  • Posted By: tdn0024 @ 03/17/2008 4:47:40 PM

    Comment: sorry, the name was Christopher Dickey

  • Posted By: tdn0024 @ 03/17/2008 4:45:17 PM

    Comment: What a gem.

    John Dickerson now says the reason we went into Iraq was to contain Iran.

    Wow. Not even George Bush could think of that one.

    Yes, there was no way, just no way, that those Oil Kingdoms couldn't use their oil profits to buy themselves some big league arms (called US exports) and protect themselves from Iran or Iraq.

    Dickerson is right about the low road of repainting hisotry. And he is leading the way.

    This is why Obama's preacher says the damn USA, and Michelle has sincerely had a hard time being proud of our country. First it was WMD, the al Qaeda, the democracy, and now, thanks to the Newsweek Genius John Dickerson, it is about providing a counterbalance to Iran. Reading this, I am ashamed of being an American. It makes me a bit nauseous, and just want to hide in bed. I think I will. There is, apparently, no end to it. Only incompetence in our elite, and indifference or eager following in our silent majority.

  • Posted By: William.Demuth @ 03/17/2008 9:00:29 AM

    Comment: I believe Floyd said it best

    Us, and them
    And after all we're only ordinary men.
    Me, and you.
    God only knows it's noz what we would choose to do.
    Forward he cried from the rear
    and the front rank died.
    And the general sat and the lines on the map
    moved from side to side.
    Black and blue
    And who knows which is which and who is who.
    Up and down.
    But in the end it's only round and round.
    Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
    The poster bearer cried.
    Listen son, said the man with the gun
    There's room for you inside.

    • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 03/19/2008 12:06:43

      Comment: wish you were here love floyd but this calls for a more of a point so lets all sing "One Tin Soldier"
      " Peace on earth was all it said"!

  • Posted By: Karenn1 @ 03/16/2008 9:25:11 AM

    Comment: All this bull won't change a thing. The Grim Reaper will keep claiming troops. Iraqi won't be the only one with resentment as long as Israel keeps the genocide of palatine people going. This is a IF, IF, IF. When do the america people wake up. Winter SOLDIER, might be the start.

    • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 03/19/2008 12:09:41

      Comment: Don't ya just love those who say if Isreal goes! God is dead. How selfcentered do you have to be? to sell weapons to China under our nose with our blessing??

    • Posted By: getzel @ 03/16/2008 13:43:39

      Comment: Karenn1 Al Qaeda Rep: thank you for presenting your Al Qaeda perspective.

      If Israel, G-d forbid, goes: America will be on the Mohammedans front line of attack: your wife and daughter in burqas or dead. Hitchcock would love the irony: all those Jew haters in burqas if anything happens to Israel.

      Terrorist are at war with The West because terrorist believe Islam can not survive against a free market, free speech to criticize Islam, representative Republic. Yes, terrorist believe Islam is doomed to the trash heap unless freedom to criticize Islam and democracy are eliminated. That is why they send suicide murderers and attack the West. Propaganda, the big lie???

      ..if only Israel???is only an excuse, propaganda, for Islamic terror; as we see that wherever the Moslem terrorist bump against another culture they say the same thing they say about Israel. In India: same thing???in Kosovo: same thing???In Israel: same thing. In Darfur: same thing. In Thailand: same thing, the Philippines: same thing. Wherever the Moslem terrorist are contiguous with another people: They say the same thing they say about Israel: If only???Sharia???and no freedom of speech to criticize Islam???

      It is never the moral high ground to assist in imposing a Sharia terrorist government on people that always includes: honor killing, hanging gays, women as chattel: virtual slaves, legal to murder & rape & pillage non -Muslims; that is the moral low ground. Yes, these throwbacks to the seventh century should be confronted or you get a burqa, will bow to Mecca or be killed.

      Intelligence analyst: Getzel

  • Posted By: ikez78 @ 03/16/2008 9:04:03 AM

    Comment: Your old reporting on Saddam's links to al Qaeda affiliates was correct. Your current assertions are false. Please READ the report instead of relying on the summaries of others in the press Mr. Dickey. I know you aren't lazy or stupid.

  • Posted By: ikez78 @ 03/16/2008 8:59:58 AM

    Comment: Mr. Dickey,
    You were right about Saddam and Islamic terrorists being linked. I have a copy of the Pentagon report on the topic and read most of it and plan to have a link up today at www.regimeofterror.com if you are interested.

  • Posted By: ikez78 @ 03/16/2008 8:58:28 AM

    Comment: Mr. Dickey,
    You were right about Saddam supporting Islamic terrorists. I' ve finally had a chance to actually read the new Pentagon report and will be posting on it at www.regimeofterror.com and if you are interested.

  • Posted By: collegevoter @ 03/15/2008 11:48:04 PM

    Comment: Yeah get off the crack. Whoever wrote this piece is insane. The invasion of Iraq will NEVER look like a good thing. Still waiting around for all of us to realize how great the Vietnam War was Dickey? Give me a break.

    • Posted By: Sleaves @ 03/20/2008 01:48:30

      Comment: Someone needs to show this to Mr. McCain. Vietnam was unwinable and so is a war against an entire religion! Time to leave the ME to the Middleeasterns and dictate to them what We are willing to pay for their oil reserves. Making them trillionaires is counterproductive to a free world society.

      WAKE UP!!!

  • Posted By: tc125231 @ 03/15/2008 11:31:04 PM

    Comment: Are you stupid? Or just a well paid reporter insulated from reality? Why pull out of Iraq? We can't afford it --our economy is melting, and we are unable to take effective action because of the 2nd most expensive war ever was paid for with IOUs, largely as a result of some extremely ill-timed tax cuts for rich people.

    5 more years of Iraq and the Dust Bowl migrations will seem like smaill potatos. In 2007, one in 14 home owners was foreclosed. The numbers are only going to go up.

  • Posted By: revhank @ 03/15/2008 4:15:32 PM

    Comment: You say we're going to elect a new president in January? All this time I was thinking it was November.

    • Posted By: getzel @ 03/15/2008 22:25:45

      Comment: That is what you get for thinking. The president is elected in January, not November.

  • Posted By: Kim Scipes @ 03/15/2008 2:33:19 AM

    Comment: What's missing from the situation in Iraq is any critical view by the media--in fact, the media has done an atrociously bad job of covering this war (they have excelled in cheerleading the war, in fact). Most Americans have no idea of what is actually taking place in Iraq.

    This weekend (March 14-16), Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) have been and will continue to present public testimony by US veterans and active duty personnel about what they did or what they personally saw in Iraq. This is largely ignored by the mainstream media. However, beginning tomorrow at 9 am EDT, the hearings are being streamed live over the internet: go to www.ivag.org --it you have trouble getting it, check around the web site, as the information is available to get you access to the hearings. Listen (as I did today) about what these veterans--mostly combat vets--have to say about what is really going on. And once you hear from them, then we can discuss what's going on.

    Kim Scipes
    former Sergeant, USMC, 1969-73
    Chicago

    PS: Sunday is the 40th anniversary of the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam

    • Posted By: getzel @ 03/15/2008 08:51:03

      Comment: No I do not agree that soldiers in the field can give an accurate view of geo-political forces that are at play in Iraq and in the region. They can give an opinion of what micro events and battles they witnessed.

      No, the American people and the brave soldiers, did not understand, and still do not understand, that President Bush/Cheney/Rice went to Iraq with the single goal of a nice long lasting war and sell lots of weapons. I appreciate that some view the Iraq weapons deal as though loyal Americans acting in American interest were what is happening; unfortunately that view does not represent the market conditions that exist.

      Intelligence analyst: Getzel

  • Posted By: getzel @ 03/14/2008 9:41:51 PM

    Comment: War ends We win: when we pass a law that makes the minimum price of gasoline at the pumps: $1.75/gallon; billion dollar/million barrel per day ethanol stills will not be built without protection from OPEC monopoly pricing rusting out our new stills.

    The ethanol investors do not build ethanol distilleries because monopoly OPEC would lower the price to rust out their billion dollar million barrel a day ethanol still. Brazil is energy independent: ethanol; All their cars come built running on ethanol; Archer Daniel Midland made millions on $1.00 gallon ethanol in the 1990s; that trumps any canard/invalid objection to ethanol. Use Cellulose ethanol, not corn ethanol.

    My view is that Osama B L and Mughniyeh et al should be refered to as "mercenary marketing directors for various government owned weapons manufacturers parading as a religious persons";( my description fits better than theirs & who would believe them if we did not promote them as religious?) no English definition of "religious person" includes flying planes into buildings. true not true, who cares; follow this strategy: War Ends We Win.

    Dollars to Arabs for oil, then the weapons manufactures take most of the dollars from Arabs for weapons; KGB and intelligence services then engage in manipulating ethnic masses. The KGB is the marketing team for the Comuless Moscow Weapons Company,,,see KGB handbook on manipulating ethnic masses by Getzel. The old KGB: Kick up trouble, Go sell weapons , Be in a nice long war; sell lots of weapons...

    It was the Comuless Moscow Weapons Company then (1918-1991: promise communism; deliver slavery of a military industrial complex, 2 eggs and a piece of bread is the minimum you can eat and show for work not communist equal sharing) and it is the Comuless Moscow Weapons Company now. The Song Remains The Same

    Intelligence analyst: Getzel

  • Posted By: thosfiore @ 03/14/2008 5:35:28 PM

    Comment: On the whole, I'd like to see other countries be successful, but I don't concern myself with them that much; I worry about our country and our continued success economically, socially and lastly militarily. I felt sorry for the the Iraqi people under Saddam, but I didn't have any trouble sleeping at night because of it. Now I not only feel sorry for them, I worry for us and have trouble not thinking about how bad we've screwed up with no way out. I'm mature enough to know that we have to continue our occupation, but I still blame all of the strong but stupid like Jack (who needs to capitalize his comments for some reason) and I can't help but think that we could have spent the $12 billion a month we're on the hook for a lot more productively. My biggest fears nowadays are that the American people will continue to think that we need the strong but stupid to lead us in this fiasco--they never will lead us out--and that our now depleted armed forces will find a way to dragoon my nephews into service of our chosen hell.

  • Posted By: TMG3 @ 03/14/2008 3:57:45 PM

    Comment: You last couple of paragraphs seem to imply you feel Iraq was better before the US invasion, lets not forget that the Iraqis have been held down for decades, the US has gotten them to a place where in the future they will not be held down. To imply the Iraqis are now being kept down by the US is ridiculous, they have been held down by a ruthless dictator for years, the US presence is far from liberating thus far, however undoubtably more beneficial than being held down by Saddam.

    • Posted By: kirt @ 03/19/2008 13:28:51

      Comment: mOST iRAQIES DON'T HAVE ELECTRICITY, RUNNING WATER, POVERTY IS RAMPANT . sO ASK THE DEAD IF THEY ARE BETTER OFF

  • Posted By: Jack3213 @ 03/14/2008 3:46:48 PM

    Comment: FOR THOSE WHO ARE OVER DRAMATIC AND BLAME BUSH FOR EVERYTHING: TWO WORDS: GROW UP. AS WELL, GET USED TO THE IDEA THAT BEING IN IRAQ IS MORE LIKE A SAFETY CUSHION, SHOWS THE TERRORISTS THE USA ARE NOT WIMPS AND CAN TAKE CONTROL AND DELIVER ON PROMISES. MANY PEOPLE MAY NOT LIVE THIS WAY IN THEIR OWN LIFE, SO YOU WON'T GET IT, BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS, IF WE LEAVE IRAQ WE ARE ALL DOOMED, THE EVILS OF THE WORLD WOULD HAVE INVADED IRAQ IF WE HAD NOT GONE THERE FIRST. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, NO MATTER, JUST GET ON BOARD OR GET OFF YOUR SOAP BOX.

    • Posted By: kirt @ 03/19/2008 13:34:07

      Comment: Only sheep follow blindly and regurgitate comments without thinkingn forget you childish dreams of a forever war.

      • Posted By: Sleaves @ 03/20/2008 01:49:59

        Comment: AMEN!!

    • Posted By: getzel @ 03/14/2008 21:35:34

      Comment: No, the American people did not understand, and still do not understand, that President Bush/Cheney/Rice went to Iraq with the single goal of a nice long lasting war and sell lots of weapons. I appreciate that you view the Iraq weapons deal as though loyal Americans acting in American interest were what is happening; unfortunately that view does not represent the market conditions that exist.

      Intelligence analyst: Getzel

      • Posted By: tc125231 @ 03/15/2008 23:33:54

        Comment: You are a genuine idiot. Have you looked at the US economy lately? Do you even know how to do basic addition?

  • Posted By: moelke @ 03/14/2008 1:48:51 PM

    Comment: Iran wouldn't have nuclear deterrance moron. We could glass over they're whole rotten little country and they couldn't even launch a nuke to the middle of th atlantic ocean. Somebody needs to start explaining this to the mullahs and idiots like yourself. We only survived the Cold War because both the US and USSR could both annihilate each other - the principle of Mutually Assured Destruction. That doesn't exist between a nuclear USA and a nuclear Iran. What exists is Iran Assured Destruction. Once a country gets a nuclear bomb they become a nuclear target. Someody needs to explain to the Iranian people their nuclear pride could get them nuclear killed.

  • Posted By: pmcs @ 03/14/2008 1:01:39 PM

    Comment: TO: Those who sent Bush to WH,

    thank you!

    You helped destroy our country and our lives.

 
 
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