Why Is The U.S. Training The Iraqi Army?

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Don't wonder why so many in the Iraqi army are being killed- they are being seen as traitors to their people by allowing the "occupiers" to brainwash them. The main thing we should be doing right now is giving the Iraqi people back the infrastructure we took away from them with 'shock and awe.' They had buildings, schools, mosques, roads, electricity, and much more water before the holy rollers called for it to be blown up.

Our first priority should be to restore what we destroyed, and then leave it up to the Iraqi people to decide about their own government by giving them guidance, not running it from behind the curtain. Unfortunately now, that may mean they will have no other choice but to now run their government as three entities, and that will do nothing but exacerbate violence. We will have another Israeli/Palestinian situation on our hands and decades of the same environment that has done nothing but bring poverty and hate to the world regardless of what 'Party' is in control in this country.

That's why 2/3 of this world came out before this war was started and people from around the world who knew better warned not to do this. How nice it would have been then to have Democrats in unison saying the same thing in Congress, rather than bending over backwards to give Bush what he wanted because they too could only see black and white, didn't ask questions, and at the time could only see the possible "capture" of Hussein as a vote getter in 2004. They sure do have a lot of amends to make in this new Congress, though I personally will never forgive those Democrats and msot definitely the Republicans who lent their vote to this no matter what they do now.

However, the point now is that the Iraqi people need some sort of stability in their country, and that isn't going to happen the longer the perception exists that the U.S. is really running things there. I stated many times before that you cannot force Democracy at the point of a gun. You also can't allow delusional, out of touch, vindictive sociopaths to have the unchecked power necessary to wage war. However, is this a lesson this country will actually learn from?

We will see what happens should Israel decide to attack Iran as their PM claimed is still a possibility as recently as yesterday. I have a sneaking suspicion if that should happen (with the U.S. taxpayer once again unknowingly supporting it through their $$$$$$) that we will find out, and it won't show that we learned much of anything. We needed an international force to bring stability to Iraq, and our leaders on both sides squandered all of our respect by aligning themselves with ambition, stupidity, arrogance, and greed. It's going to take more than one election and Rumsfeld's long overdue 'resignation' to bring that respect back. The people of Iraq don't need a U.S. trained Army to keep them in line to remind them of what happened every day. They need roads, schools, food, water, electricity, hope, and true freedom to decide their own destiny.

It's way past time to make amends for what we did and to begin to get out... but of course, from a political standpoint that isn't going to happen for a while as more people die while waiting for the "Baker Report", this report, that report, and the political powerplaying on both sides to now work their own political agendas into the mix to set up for their next sham of a 'Presidential' election, rather than doing what is moral and right. Politics truly is a maggot infested corrosive system and there is a no more clearer example of that than the hell they created in Iraq. Perhaps it is also then time for the "Politicians" to just step the hell back, shut the hell up, and let the PEOPLE decide the ending to this, because they are the ones who are living this. Yeah, what a novel, 'Democratic' concept.

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1. Would Democrats Support Israel Attacking Iran?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061110/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_iran_nuclear

By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer
Fri Nov 10, 12:17 PM ET

JERUSALEM - The deputy defense minister suggested Friday that Israel might be forced to launch a military strike against Iran's disputed nuclear program — the clearest statement yet of such a possibility from a high-ranking official. "I am not advocating an Israeli pre-emptive military action against Iran and I am aware of its possible repercussions," Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh, a former general, said in comments published Friday in The Jerusalem Post. "I consider it a last resort. But even the last resort is sometimes the only resort."

Sneh's comments did not necessarily reflect the view of Israel's government or of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said government spokeswoman Miri Eisin.Olmert, who was arriving in Washington on Sunday, said he was confident in the U.S. handling of the international standoff over Iran's nuclear program. The Bush administration and other nations say is a cover for developing atomic weapons, but Tehran says the program is peaceful.

"I have enormous respect for President Bush. He is absolutely committed," Olmert said in an interview on NBC's "Today" show. "I know that America will not allow Iran to possess nuclear weapons because this is a danger to the whole Western world."