Heynow, I dont mean to be offensive in any way, but I like to point out some things about your statement;
You say "The war in Iraq is good for Iraq, good for Israel, good for America, and good for the world. Anyone who thinks any different is a moron and a coward who beleives in segragationism ...."
You say that anyone who thinks differently than you about this subject is among other things "a coward."
When USA has been fighting against guerilla warfare in the middle east, Napalm has been used. Napalm was banned by U.N, after the world had seen consequences of Napalm explosives, as well as the use of white phosphor for the same purposes used in the war against Vietnam. These tools of slaughter have been banned for humanitarian reasons, by all country´s within the U.N, except for USA. Now if that is not the weapon of a coward, when facing a small group of gorillas to call in an air strike of Napalm or white phosphor, except for taking them on face to face, than I guess we have to agree to disagree about that one.
You also state;
"if we were to leave now there would most likely be a civil war and the first elected president of Iraq would ask us to come right back anyway by that time many lives would be needlessly lost and our enemies would have built up enough power to give them the upper hand."
You talk about, "our enemies," without the slightest definition of who or what those enemies are. I have not read the constitution of Iraq, but in the constitution of the country I live in, it says something like this; "If the country is invaded by a hostile millitary, every man who has reached 18 years of age, and is fit to hold a weapon, is to, defend the country with his life, against the hostile invaders."
In the so called "war against terrorism," U.S government and its allies, have stipulated the right to interpret constitutions, and the right every man must have to defend them selves and/or their families, as an act of "terrorism."
A very good indication of that, lie in the famous words of G.W.B when he said, "In the war against terror, either you are with us, or against us." Which has an underlying threat that says; "We make the rules, and if you do not follow, you are against us, and therefore might be interpret as a terrorist state, with all the consequence we can throw at you."
In the opening of your statement you say; "To sum it up in one word "TURKEY." To explain the goal we are trying to achieve in Iraq is for it to function like turkey, a peacful, reformed, democratic, muslem country, that has the economy to support itself, is free of radical tyranny, that is an ally to america and isreal, and can help us fight terrorism."
Turkey is very far from being what we like to call "a free democratic country." Turk´s and Kurd´s have been fighting a brutal war with each other for decades guerilla warfare beetween these two and warfare that the world press has described as "Turkish war crimes," against Kurd´s has been going on for a long time.
"These pictures and the heinous crimes they show are not aberrations. These scenes are repeated often in southeastern Turkey, the historical land of the Kurds. Armed with East German rifles, West German armored vehicles and sophisticated American weapons, Turkish soldiers are creating the largest moonscape on the face the earth, raining death and destruction on the Kurds and their land. House Concurrent Resolution 136 of the 104th Congress notes that more than 2,650 Kurdish villages have been destroyed in this most recent Turkish assault on the Kurds.
The French philosopher Voltaire wrote that the worst kind of death is to be obscurely hanged. The slaughter of the Turkish Kurds is a good example of that. Ask the Kurds for the name of a people that supports their cause for civil rights and there is not an answer."
(Turkey´s war crimes by Kani Xulam, January 28, 1996)
What Turkey on the other hand has, which serves U.S. and its allies with their objectives in the middle east, is one of the largest standing armies in the world, and the second largest army within Nato. That along with the global position of Turkey it self, is a major factor with U.S interest in Turkish reinforcements in the area.
If Iraq and Iran are nations that are sitting on largest oil wells of the globe, (that we know of at this point,) are considered to be a minor factor in the equation of "the war against terrorism," than its like telling people that conclusions made by every day people all over the world, are to be ignored, not just by governments, but by people themselves as well. That is what I would describe as brain wash.
be well
