Will W meet Cindy Sheehan

[mburbank]

You make my argument for us leaving. They don't have a tiny stake, they have the ONLY legitimate stake. IF we could set up an actual international coalition with us doing some funding but no killing, the insurgents would loose the steady stream of recruits we provide them with.

Blanc, I'll dig up the numbers after I meet my next deadline, but the stats I read were Sadaam, approx 250 violent deaths a month, current state of near civil war upwards of a thousand a month.

I AM NOT PRO-SADAAM.

But I also think it is Republican dogma which a lot of people have swallowed that nothing no matter how awful woould be worse for the people of Iraq than Sadaam was. What would it take to even concider the possability we've made things worse? Would an all out civil war be worse? Would total anarchy be worse? Would an Iraqi version of the Taliban be worse?

I also reject the idea that just because it's concieveable things are worse this is somehow an endorsement of Baathism.

If someone comes into the dentist needing a root canal and the dentists rips every tooth out of his head, the patient may feel cheated and STILL not join the rotten tooth fan club.

And Blanco, this stable government with the full support of the worlds only remaining super power cannot secure the road from the airport to the capitol. I think those swallowing the whole "It took our nation twelve years" line would be hard pressed to see a paralell there.