Top Five Reasons to Abandon Iraq

1. 1.    It must not be that important. After all; the commander in chief George W. Bush told me the only thing I needed to do was to go to the mall and buy stuff; like duck tape.
3. 2.    “Our culture is just as bad as their culture” why defend it?

3.    "We have looted and raped that region for decades; it is time to stop."

4.     "We can loose this one and still survive."

5.    "Other countries just want to be left alone."

Bush is accused of lying; he is even accused of fabricating 9/11. But; if he really is this evil genius why did he not turn the emotion of 9/11 to galvanize and mobilize this nation?

Why, in the heck, did he tell us to go buy duck tape?

Why is it Democrats that mobilize to defeat the military impetus of this nation while Republicans, for the most part, ignore or even vilify; the Minutemen Project, Gathering of Eagles, and any other patriotic endeavor?

My guess is just as good as anyone; but I believe Republicans are afraid of a mobilized nation. Democrats are too, they just were too weakened by the country’s mood at the beginning of it all.
 
They were too paralized to counteract the rebellion of the extreme left. The balance of power was in favor of the “peculiar.”

Is “our culture not any better than theirs?”

Really?

Do we force people to pray five times a day under the threat of corporal punishment?

Do we allow only one religion and only one religious book inside our borders?

Do we believe Jews to be sub-human?

How do we treat women?

Is it Abu-Grabe and Guantanamo really as bad under us as it was under Saddam?

Now, let’s analyze the “looting and raping:”

Ancient Mesopotamia has been looted and raped by:

The Assyrians, The Babylonians, The Persians, The Greeks, The Sassanids, THE ARABS, the Mongols, The Turks, The Safavids of Iran, The Ottomans, The Britts, and Saddam Hussein.

It is a fertile, rich piece of real state in a bad neighborhood.

Liberals believe that borders are permanent lines drawn on the ground with a thick Sharpie ®

Actually, nations exist because armies exist, just like your nice middle class bedroom community exists because of an armed martial organization called ‘the police.’

Poles are not Russian, are not German, because they push themselves against the push of both neighbors.

If Iraqis don’t push back against Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Syria, they’ll be gobbled up by their neighbors. Or survive as a Shiite puppet regime of Teheran.

The last time we ‘stopped interfering’ in the region was when the ‘righteous’ Jimmy Carter decided that the Iranian Shah; was a bad man put in power by the CIA and, that if we would just withdraw; the Iranian people would enter into a new era of peace and love. But they didn’t. they went all crazy and extreme.

It is called “balance of power” and it means that if the USA is weaker that does not translate into a ‘hippie peace loving nation’ but into a “stronger someone else.”

Capicci?

When we moved out of Iran the Russians moved in. Who would you know is building those pesky nuclear power plants today? Who invaded Afghanistan?

The only way the US can become like those beloved Socialist Scandinavian countries is if we invent another mighty military power to guarantee our security. But there is none.

Europe can be cute the way they are ONLY because we guarantee their security. Otherwise they would have to cut their vacation time to pay for their military.

Which takes me to the next point; can we really loose this one and survive?

Evidence is to the contrary. When the Soviet Union collapsed we though the world would become most peaceful and we will reap a “peace dividend.” We gutted the military.

Worldwide, the number o casualties from terrorist acts skyrocketed.
 
Starting with Bill Clinton in the middle 1990’s; I am not saying ‘because’ of Bill Clinton. The truth is; we were all in this “go to the mall” mentality.

“The eight year period 1987-1994 saw 9,575 global casualties from terrorism. But over the next nine years the (1995-2003) the total jumped to 27, 608.” (Thomas Barnett)

Our economy is based in oil. Not just your SUV, but the plastics that make our health industry, the composites that make our aeronautics industry, our medicines, our computer chips.

And, as for countries just ‘want(ing) to be left alone?’ Did we stay put after Great Britain withdrawn from our small thirteen colonies? Or are we still expanding?

Turks were at the gates of Vienna once, but Europe pushed back. The question is do we bring Islam into the global economy or do we allow the forces of “turning the clock back” to fester and eventually expand?

Is it better to fight a 200 pound gorilla or a 500 pound gorilla?