Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do ...a letter from Michael Moore

[proud2BlibKansan]

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This is what we demand:

1. Bring the troops home now. Not six months from now. NOW. Quit looking for a way to win. We can't win. We've lost. Sometimes you lose. This is one of those times. Be brave and admit it.

2. Apologize to our soldiers and make amends. Tell them we are sorry they were used to fight a war that had NOTHING to do with our national security. We must commit to taking care of them so that they suffer as little as possible. The mentally and physically maimed must get the best care and significant financial compensation. The families of the deceased deserve the biggest apology and they must be taken care of for the rest of their lives.

3. We must atone for the atrocity we have perpetuated on the people of Iraq. There are few evils worse than waging a war based on a lie, invading another country because you want what they have buried under the ground. Now many more will die. Their blood is on our hands, regardless for whom we voted. If you pay taxes, you have contributed to the three billion dollars a week now being spent to drive Iraq into the hellhole it's become. When the civil war is over, we will have to help rebuild Iraq. We can receive no redemption until we have atoned.

In closing, there is one final thing I know. We Americans are better than what has been done in our name. A majority of us were upset and angry after 9/11 and we lost our minds. We didn't think straight and we never looked at a map. Because we are kept stupid through our pathetic education system and our lazy media, we knew nothing of history. We didn't know that WE were the ones funding and arming Saddam for many years, including those when he massacred the Kurds. He was our guy. We didn't know what a Sunni or a Shiite was, never even heard the words. Eighty percent of our young adults (according to National Geographic) were not able to find Iraq on the map. Our leaders played off our stupidity, manipulated us with lies, and scared us to death.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=202

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1. If the US. stayed in Iraq for 20 years and left - repukes would still call it cut & running

[Monkeyman]

2. Sad but very true

Idea lets send all the chicken hawks to Iraq

[TahitiNut]

3. It takes far more courage to say "I did wrong" than ...

... to beat up on people. That's why Bush/Cheney&Co. are cowards and bullies ... on a global scale. Appalling.

One of the major problems in the post-Viet Nam era is that the people who were wrong still haven't admitted it ... with the exception (somewhat) of McNamera. Many are still spinning and lying and suffering self-inflicted delusions.

[Leftisalwaysright]

4. Is it me...

or has he been too silent recently. He needs to be making the talk show rounds talking some sense into people!

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. He's been working on his movie

it's due out this summer.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Sunday morning kick