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EMAIL RESPONSE TO ARTICLE: READER'S OPINION ON THE SITUATION IN IRAQ
(Last Week): Oh the war. I absolutely agree with you. I certainly don't get it either. What are people thinking about? I have no idea.
I mean just today I read in the paper that 100 insurgents stormed a jail in a town about 60 miles from Baghdad. They burn the place down, kill between 20 and 40 policemen and free 33 prisoners to include a bunch of insurgents who were just recently captured in nearby villages. I guess the "liberal media" either made the story up or maybe conducted the attack themselves. And today's good news is ????
| Monday, May 27, 2006 |
| At least 40 people were killed and more than 30 wounded Monday by a suicide bomber outside a northern Iraq recruitment center for security forces. (No American soldiers were killed.). Sectarian violence is on the rise with 142 dead since Sunday, March 26. Sunni(the minority in charge under Saddam) militias are a major part of the insurgency committing acts of violence against the Shiites.
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Unfortunately the Democrats just can't get it together. A few days ago there was a column on the editorial page in our paper by a guy named Leonard Pitts; he is a columnist for the Miami Herald. The title was "While Bush Administration Bungles, Democrats Dither." You get the drift. This guy is unfortunately right.
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| My take is that the Democrats, because they are political animals too, don't have the balls to stand up and say plain out that this war was wrong to begin with, it ain't getting any better, the Iraqis don't want us there and we need to begin getting the heck out. But they won't or can't.
I blame the Democrats and Congress as a whole, just as much as I blame Bush and his cronies. They have caved into the current executive branch on all fronts; and, in so doing, they've sold us out. Shameful in my opinion. It's all about getting re-elected often enough to get seniority, a plumb committee chairmanship, retire and make the big bucks as a lobbyist. The heck with the electorate.
WR, military retired and patriotic American
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