I've never cared for your thinking, Frank, and thsi doesn't make me change my mind. I support full and immediate US withdrawal, though it's not going to happen, but I think a lot of Iraqis, college-educated and not, think that eveb a bad puppet government and a foreign occupation is better than civil war or an Islamic tyranny or both, and it is contemptible to dismiss that perspective even if you disagree with it.
--- frank scott <frank at marin.cc.ca.us> wrote:
> "...By the way, Iraqis have more than once pleaded
> with me to
> argue against precipitous withdrawal by the US..."
>
> which iraqis? what a crock of smug, shit eating
> western superiority...
> this guy sometimes sounds good, but only in
> comparison to the worst of
> bushitters...
>
> iraqis who want america to stay are probably living
> in his college's
> dorms...
>
> if a civil war develops, his type will say "see, i
> told you so", but all
> the allegedly religious differences that apologists
> insist mean we
> should stay, are mostly in the apologists heads...
>
> the evil, wicked, monstrous_____ ( fill in favorite
> term i may have
> left out) saddam regime could not have functioned
> without a helluva lot
> of shiites, who probably were as numerous among
> baathists as they are in
> the general population...
>
> if someone indulged the great american pastime and
> took a poll among all
> kurds, shiites and sunnies, i think the majority
> would say to america:
> get the fuck out, now...
>
> and take cole and his expert ilk with you...
>
> fs
>
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