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In a message dated 1/10/2005 11:09:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
melody AT crecon.com writes:

((And  who can blame them?  A Western country mandating that an  Eastern
((country try a brand of government that they don't believe in or  want is a
((huge mistake.  
Uhhh, the people of Iraq, the ones we are trying to help DO support the  idea 
of a democracy and will risk the very real possibility of death to exercise  
their new right to vote. How many Americans would show up at a known bomb 
target  to cast their vote??? The people we are fighting are not generally 
Iraqi  
citizens, but terrorists from other nations gathered together at the point of 
 
the sword. We are also not fighting mainstream Muslims. I know several and 
they  are adament in their denial of this assertion. The friends and 
relatives 
of mine  currently fighting over their and one returned wounded ALL believe 
in 
our  actions over their and rave at the support they have from the citizenry. 
I am  sorry if the truth doesn't jibe with the liberal spin on the war.


((In any case, why are we there?  We have gotten rid of the  monster we went
))in for, found that their arms were not anywhere to be  seen....
 
Millions of pounds of weapons have been found and destroyed, so I must  
assume you are referring to the "weapons of mass destruction" Practically  
everyone 
on both sides of the political fence believed he had them and we don't  know 
that he didn't . Just as in the first war, where Saddam sent his best  
weapons 
into Iran to protect them from us, he is suspected of shipping much into  
Syria in the months leading up to the current war. We know for a fact from  
witnesses that one of the last sites inspectors said held biological weapons 
was  
visited by convoys of Russian trucks (known to be for hire) in the 3 days 
prior 
 to our entering the country and the place was empty when we got there. If 
you  were Saddam and had many months to prepare, would you have left the 
evidence of  lies out in the open??? 
 
((when will we
((quit occupying a country whose ways we don't know,  while pretending to give
((them "freedom" and "democracy"?
 
We really didn't understand the ways of  Hitler, murdering the Jews  and 
starting his plan for world domination, but we occupied Germany anyway.  
Saddam 
murdered with weapons of mass destruction countless Kurds, should we let  
this 
stand simply because they are Kurds and different from us?? Saddam rolled  
into 
Kuwait, raping and pillaging as he went, and we responded to this as well.  
Should we not have simply because we didn't understand their Ways??This is 
not 
a  religious war, we are not imposing our religion on the people of Iraq. We 
are  removing a tyrant and will back out leaving the people of Iraq in the 
position  to elect whom they choose. The opposition parties are already 
forming in 
Iraq  within the democratic structure and will put candidates on future 
ballots. Sure  this first election will take place under our direction, but 
not 
those in the  future. 
 
Drew