Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] America's shadow army in Iraq

[Rick <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Your implication that this is the sole reason Bush is resisting a hard 
date for withdrawal is absurd. Telling the bully when you're going to 
quit fighting is tantamount to surrender, plain and simple.

I like the line I heard the other day on a (conservative) radio show;
Presidents don't lose wars, countries lose wars.

If we lose our chutzpah in the middle east, America is done as a major 
power in the world, and the Islamic fundamentalists will gradually 
annihilate any country that they can't absorb (much like they've begun 
to do in the EU). Without at least some reasonable fear of the "crazy 
Americans", we lose all bargaining power at the oil table, and since no 
one wants to belly up with decent alternatives, our economy becomes, at 
the very least, imperiled.

Rick

Mike Miller wrote:
> Jeremy Scahill was on The Daily Show a few days ago.  He has written 
> what seems to be a fascinating book:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Rise-Worlds-Powerful-Mercenary/dp/1560259795/ 
>
>
> See Scahill's Salon.com article below.  To understand why Bush/Cheney 
> are maniacally focused on indefinite extension of U.S. military 
> involvement in Iraq, just look at some of these quotes from the article:

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Let's have a traditional thanks giving this year...invite the neighbors 
over for dinner..then kill them and take their land!!
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