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2006-03-14 Iraq

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Posted by Glenmore 2006-03-14 15:31|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yeah, but couldn't we write just the same -

Bloodshed continues in LA or Detroit, or [pick your large metro area and insert here].

We're knocking off about 18K a year just domestically. We won't even throw in the DWI vehicular homicides.

Posted by Gleper Jaque6309 2006-03-14 17:42|| 2006-03-14 17:42|| Front Page Top

#2 There is good and bad here. The understanding that it is terrorists that are killing people and trying to create civil war.

One angle could be to throw yourselves behind the government - as ineffectual as you might find it - in favour of throwing your lot in to succumb to terrorists. A joy of demnocracy is that you can throw the bums out at the next election.

Succumbing to terror and sects and tribes won't offer the same hope. You must come together as a people under one banner - however temporary, it's a darn start. Then fine tune it - but you must keep the freedom to do so.

I too, am worried about a major attack, but the thwarting of the green zone may have been a part of it. Or a smokescreen. But it remains that internal conditions are choice - reaction certainly is.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-14 21:33|| 2006-03-14 21:33|| Front Page Top

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