Roger wrote:
Bush wanted to end the war before the end of the year.
It's really, really BAD timing for Bush to have had Saddam executed
now.
See how well it worked?
First off, I have to say I find it frustrating that it seems few people
reply to my Usenet posts. I think I make some good points in the ones
I have posted in past months, but it often seem people are more
interested in the "YOUR MOTHER IS A *****!" and "YOUR FATHER IS A
HUSTLER AND YOU HAVE TO PAY HIM TO ***** YOU" posts.
Anyway, to my comments:
The *one* thing that Bush could say the United States "accomplished" in
Iraq, the removal of Saddam Hussein, in now done with his execution.
The death of the leader of a foreign nation, which was not a threat to
the United States, that this country illegally invade, the Iraq
dictator who kept his county almost absent of religious fundamentalist
terrorist, and held his nation together from breaking into a Civil War,
that the United States has now brought about, this weak excuse for the
one "success" Bush had in the Iraq War is GONE.
Take about bad timing for Bush and his Administration!
First, symbolically, it will soon be a New Year, no longer 2006, but
2007. It is out with the old, in with the new. Saddam's death will be
among the old and the realities of Iraq will once again become the new.
Along with that symbolic change in the next week, there will be a great
many real events that will swamp Saddam's death. First is the funeral
of former President Ford. (Today, Sunday the 31st, it is already
pushing Hussein's death out of the news in the United States!)
Next is that the new Congress will be sworn in, a
Democratically-controlled Congress that will finally be able to hold
Bush accountable for all the horrible and wrong-head decisions he has
made the last 6 years. Bush himself will likely out forward his "new"
strategy for the Iraq War, which will be the same old "Stay the Course"
only with MORE US troops to be sent over that will accomplished
nothing, if it even happens. I suspect both the Democratic Congress
AND the American people will not in any way support Bush's escalation
on the war.
And most important of all that will far overshadow the execution of
Hussein, will be the number 3,000; the soon to be reached number of
American soldiers -- sons, daughters, husband, wives, aunts, uncles,
neighbors, and good friends -- who have died in a war Bush lied the
people of the United States into supporting.
A war that 3/4s of the American public is now against and that 2/3 of
the citizens of the United States say should never have been started! A
war the all 16 of this nation's intelligence agencies said has created
MORE terrorist and made the people of the country LESS safer!
And The Question that will hang over all these events will be: Was the
death of 3,000 American soldiers worth the death of 1 Iraqi leader who
was not in anyway a threat to the United States of American or its
people?
Was it worth it? 3,000 for 1? Is 4,000 worth it?
-Tom Sr.
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