Rumsfeld: What we've gained in Iraq

[mburbank]

"Hey man, don't bame me becaue you bought that "AMERICA IS THE WORLDS BIGGEST TERRORIST" Tshirt."
-Abcdrunch

Uh, blow me? I don't think that, I never said that. My T-shirt reads "COUNTRY WITH THE LARGEST ARSENAL". I also have bumper sticker that says "CAUTION: THIS CAR ENGAGES IN PRE-EMPTIVE WAR" So far, if the World's Biggest Terrorist is a meaningful monikker to you, Osama Bin Laden still holds that title. We lost interest in him a while back and launched a war on a country that had nothing to do with him.

"suffering IS negated by Kurds, and Women on the ballot."

Huhn. nd hear I thought that was an opinion as opposed to a law of physics on how suffering gets negated. Forgive me for forgetting you were speaking ex cathedra.

"There is a unilateral Iraqi parliament which was sworn in on the 17th, complete wit hthe return of the Iraqi flag, and national anthem. "
-Abcdomnialflu

Yeah, they managed to meet for a half hour. My bad for confusing flags and songs with symbols. I'm sure someone suffering from symbolic phosphorou burns appreciattes the difference. I know, I know, comments like that mean I'm a terorist.

"You're entitled to devalue these things, or write them off as trivial but then I'm entitled to say you don't give a shit about Iraqis, or know the first thing about them."
-Abcadabcadabcadatsallfolks

Swell, meaningless, but swell. I coud easily draw similar cnclusions and say that you value colored cloth and songs over living, breathing children , but I'd have to be a self absorded dick wildly extrapolating your pesonal worth based on your 'entitlement' to a political opinion to think anything like that.

I think (and thank god you let me kow I'm entited to) that the positives are vastly outweighed by the negatives, that what positives we can bestow have already been bestowed. I do not see how our continued presence will prevent any of the unnamed bad things you see coming to pass if we leave. Partly because you don't name them, but mostly because no one seem to have any idea what our military might do to prevent them happening. We've tried blowing stuff up and it isn't helping anymore and several different groups of Iraqis now have the capacity to blow things up by themselves.

As for your blog, (and not to be cyncial, but did you check to see if the pentagon paid for it or the Lincoln Group wrote it? I hear that happens sometimes) and whatever snyde bullshit you intend to imply by using it, I applaud all the solidarity it reports. Argubaly along with all the bad stuff we did invading a country over weapons they didn't posess and ties to terrorists they didn't have, we helped lay the groundwork for this solidarity. Did I miss something, or is there nothing in there saying how our continued, armed, military presence supports this?

Is it too much of a terrorist action to pose that question? Should I write it on a T-shirt so you can 'wrap your head around it'? Or put it on some cloth and run it up a pole or sing it so it would become more meaningful for you?