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4/9/2003 8:31 PM
Iraqi People	Thanks America!!!!!! Anyone who protests this war today ain't got no SOUL! Thank you Mr. Bush, Mr. Blair and the troops who freed us from Sadam!

4/9/2003 9:02 PM
Garth	Re: Tanks America!!!!!! Finding out that "I ain't got no soul"really sucks... But congrats on your liberation anyways...BTW there's two Ds in Saddam.

4/9/2003 9:20 PM
USA War Man	Re: Thanks America!!!!!! Dear Iraqui Citizen, I assume you are one of the Iraquis left alive. Sorry 'bout killing a few of your friends and family members. But bad old Saddam is now gone and the oil will soon flow freely once again. Certainly glad to help. USA War Man

4/9/2003 11:10 PM
Iraqi People	Nobody ever said freedom was free. Some must sacrifice for the good of others. Thanks again America! We love you (even those of you who opposed the liberation of our people.)

4/10/2003 2:45 AM
Al Chem Ist	Iraqi People, there are those here who would wish we (or at least Europe) would be speaking German now, then have all the graves at Normandy.

4/12/2003 12:15 AM

Iraqi people:

"We love you (even those of you who
opposed the liberation of our people"

Though I opposed this endeavor, I certainly do not nor have I ever opposed the "liberation" of the Iraqi people. Going to war is a very serious undertaking and in a democracy, it is the resposiblility of the government to persuade its citizens that this is the necessary and proper course of action. When the saber rattling started, it wasn't about liberating anyone; I mostly heard of WMD's and chemical weapons..that Iraq had direct ties to Al Queda, etc. After the Viet Nam experience, I hold my government to a very high standard of proof before sending our troops to battle. I don't believe I got that proof and I would never trust policies born out of "classified" information. God knows, the Iraqi people deserve to be liberated from a truly evil person and regime, but there are others in the world who deserve the same. I have to wonder where we will be liberating next. Forgive my cynicism, but if those people don't sit on top of some very important natural resources, I doubt that it's gonna happen. However, I do feel good for the people of Iraq and I sure hope things work out well for them; I can't imagine it being much worse than their rrecent past.

4/12/2003 3:42 AM

quote:
"When the saber rattling started, it wasn't about liberating anyone; I mostly heard of WMD's and chemical weapons..."

Tom, forgive me for nitpicking, but I've gotta disagree with this statement.

The President made the point very clearly that the liberation of the Iraqis was an important goal in most of his major speeches about Iraq. He made this point in his speech to the U.N. last Fall, in his speech to the American people shortly thereafter, and in his State of the Union Address after that. If you want to go back a little further, you'll find that during the previous administration, both Clinton and Gore made statements supporting the notion of regime change in Iraq for the purpose of establishing a democratic gov't there. In fact, regime change for this reason was written into U.S. law as a policy goal when the Iraqi Liberation Act was passed in 1998, unanimously in the Senate, by a wide margin in the House, and with President Clinton's signature.

The upshot: liberation of the Iraqis isn't just some new thing tacked haphazardly onto our Iraq policy. It's true that the liberation of the Iraqis was never the primary justification for invading Iraq, which is as it should be, but their liberation was certainly an important part of the reasoning for doing so -- important enough to have been included in the President's speeches on the subject.

I agree with you in wishing the best for the people of Iraq.

MT

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