Leaving Iraq is more Ludicrous than staying. [View All]

[Perky]

Look I am not defending the invasion. It was incredibly shortsighted and stupid to think that it would be a cake walk; and it certainly was naive to think we would be treated as liberators... Worst of all it is both arrogant and extremely naive to think that imposing a republican form of government in the middle east even with modest democratic gains would ever--I mean EVER-- be viable.

FOr GOd's sake did the Neo-Cons not realize when dreaming up this lunacy that when it came to writing a constitution that the Wahabiists and the conservatives would demand that the rights of women be curtailed to conform to Islamic law? They are never going to be able to have a viable constitutional framework....Private militias will flourish and Hesbollah, and Hamas will be fighting Al Qua-da for control of the slums of Sadr city. And it is completely our fault,

This country teeters on the brink of civil war because there is no strongman government and that is our fault. To pick up and depart would mean Iraq would turn into an old Afghanistan and Baghdad into a much larger Beirut. This is why Bush I decided not to invade.


Having said that. WE HAVE TO STAY. I wish there was another course but I do not see it. It has nothing to do with saving face or oil.

Its not about sending the wrong message.... It it about the inevitability of this becoming an impoverished state with the Kurds creating an autonomous government in the north, el-Histani taking his cues from Tehran and Hezbollah finding fertile ground to exploit for terror training camps in the western desert with Syria's blessing. Its about Al queda becoming entrenched in the Baghdad slums as a political force with private armies. THis is again Beirut all over again. AND IT IS ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!

This Fiasco is the worst strategic move in US Government history. This is Bush's folly. This is nothing short of a Debacle and a quagmire.

Oh if only idiocy was an impeachable offense.


I just do not see how we can leave because it gives the country over to warlords and thugs, Zealots and nationalists.