Here's Your Answer
(cross-posted from
IMAO)
In a terribly off-topic comment to a John Edwards post, anonymous commenter with no contact information Yak asks:
Exactly why is the U.S. deployed in Iraq, according to you?
Fine.
Let's stop mincing words.
We're in Iraq because Muslims have stated over and over and over that their only goal is to kill all non-Muslims.
After 9/11, we started taking them at their word, and since we didn't want to be killed, our only choice was to start killing Muslims before they killed us.
Iraq had Muslims in it, so it was as good a place to start as any. In fact, better than most, because it was in the heart of Muslim country, and having troops there gives us a credible force-projection threat throughout the entire putrid, corrupt, murderous Muslim region. It's easier to kill Muslims in other countries from Iraq than it is from Kuwait.
And now Muslims have two choices:
They can reform their vicious, degenerate religion so that it allows for peaceful co-existence with other religions and - after embracing this enlightened, live-and-let-live philosophy whole-heartedly - they can become productive members of the civilized world, much like post-WWII Germany and Japan.
OR
They can be exterminated like vermin.
All the rest of this crap about WMD's, and mass graves, and liberation, and oil fields, and insurgents is just so much political window-dressing. America is fighting for its life against an insidious, deadly ideology. The people who cling to that sick, 7th-century belief system must either change their minds or be killed.
I wish with all my heart that we had enough manpower to conquer every damn last Muslim nation on earth and root this virus out once and for all, but we don't. So we'll start in Iraq, dragging these barbarians kicking and screaming into the 21st century. After that, hopefully the rest of the Muslim world will get the point. If not, there will be further examples, nation by nation, until they do.
Then, when the Muslim world is either civilized or dead, the war will be over.
I hope that answers your question.
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Yup - that about covers it. Good on ya, Harvey.
Posted by: Richmond at August 17, 2007 06:52 AM (XkZ30)
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I can't believe I missed this yesterday... sheesh my brain is mush. Talk about a home run - you knocked this one clear into the Middle East. *grin*
Posted by: Teresa at August 17, 2007 07:10 AM (gsbs5)
Posted by: Susie at August 17, 2007 09:20 AM (Dw6Z5)
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Harv, STOP beating around the bush and just tell us how you REALLY feel, I mean stop being so PC and just speak your mind.
JEEZ your just getting soft In your old age.
Posted by: blogless brother at August 17, 2007 09:50 AM (JeWGX)
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It also has the side benefit of exposing the traitorous bastards and useful idiots in our own midst.
Unfortunately the powers that be have gallowsphobia
so none of the assholes have swung like they should.
Posted by: Graumagus at August 17, 2007 12:53 PM (msvPA)
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Ah, must be nice to live in such simplistic ignorance. It's so much easier to let someone else tell you what to think instead of actually doing some research and knowing something about the subject you discuss - in this case 2000 years of history (until the 16th century, Islamic lands were centuries ahead of Europe medically, philosophically, economically, scientifically, etc.), the history of the Crusades (no, Christians weren't the good guys there), or the history of the Cold War (no, the U.S. wasn't the good guy there either).
Not to mention this large group of men who attacked people from hiding, running away when a counterattack was mounted, using snipers to pick off officers and terrorizing those who sympathized with the enemy . . . these men were, and still are, lauded as heroes . . . in the 1770s when they fought the British using terrorist, sorry guerilla, tactics.
Let's also look at reality:
Before the U.S. invade Iraq, according to the CIA and U.S. State Dept., Iraq:
a) was a second world country
b) was politically, economically stable, and
c) had no terrorist presence or leanings whatsoever.
After the U.S. invasion, according to the U.S. military, CIA, and State Dept, Iraq:
a) is a third world country
b) is politically and economically unstable, and
c) is a terrorist training ground.
Not only has the invasion failed to make the U.S. safer, it has actually made us less safe. But, the administration's misson has been accomplished: Cheney's company got a multi-billion dollar no bid contract, Cheney's gotten his kickback from that, and Dubya's personal vendetta has been successfully ended.
Yeah us!
Posted by: John at August 18, 2007 05:18 PM (I4ooZ)
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Oh, and for Graumagen . . .
It was Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin (heard of them?) who said it is the duty of every true citizen and patriot to question their government rather than blindly accepting everything their leaders say. The latter is the surest way to destroy a democratic republic.
Related note, the previous post was not intended to support the tactics used by terrorists around the world (even the American and Irish terrorists, or those we funded throughout Central America in the 80s). Rather, it is meant to point out that the mess we are embroiled in right now is a direct result of screw ups made throughout the Cold War, especially during the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations which abandoned our Middle Eastern Cold War allies after completely screwing up their countries (Iraq and Afghanistan especially). Sadly, the present administration has chosen to remain utterly blind to history and this basic fact, therefore the administration refuses to understand the fact that this country is not an innocent and utterly blameless nation. At teh same time, by ignoring the history, they completely lack understanding of the motives of Terrorist leaders like Bin Laden (one of our Cold War allies, like Hussein, whom we abandonded when the Soviet state fell).
As we can learn from history, those who do not understand the enemy, whether deliberately or not, and those who do not respect their enemy are doomed to failure by underestimating the enemy - as this administration has done time and time again over teh last six years.
Posted by: John at August 18, 2007 09:06 PM (I4ooZ)
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Hey John, Pass the Koolaid you commie bastard.
Posted by: unkawill at August 19, 2007 09:47 AM (YwdKL)
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Hey John, why don't you move to another country? I'll bet Iran would welcome you with open arms. You sure don't belong in our country.
And when you get there, please drop dead!
Posted by: kodiakken at August 21, 2007 06:09 PM (quEoP)
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