Iraq's Economy is Booming

[Preechr]

I think a question like that should also be brought up every few months... maybe even every time somebody posts about Iraq, whether or not they do it often. You call it the Coca-Colonization of the Middle East, but I don't really think anybody that has positive hopes for the war is calling it that. Do your conservative friends call it that? Is that their PEACEful goal for all this death and suffering? What is it, actually?

I believe a booming economy in Iraq is a good thing. You seem to be claiming that it all would have happened anyway had we just stayed out of it altogether. Alright. What else might have happened? Had the lives of those poor roads and bridges not been so tragically cut short back in 91, what about Kuwait? What about whatever happened after nobody cared about Kuwait?

Armchair quarter-backing is fun and easy. Unfortunately, there are very real problems in the world that really need to be addressed in the present. Personally, I believe we have not done enough to make the world a better place, and I regret that the so-called "liberals" of the world raise Hell whenever anybody tries. I don't agree that consensus solves problems, just as insistence on it would have made America impossible.

That probably has nothing at all to do with your original response to that question, but I'm asking it again as it relates to your position on the war as your current post infers it to be.

I think this should be a Liberal War, not a Conservative one.

I want your opinion on this because I think you're a thoughtful guy.

Why do you think it isn't?