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1 posted on 02/05/2007 4:15:17 AM PST by theothercheek
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I didn't read this article, so in case it was good, kudos.

In case it was bad, boo on you.

2 posted on 02/05/2007 4:24:10 AM PST by Lazamataz (You are not your mind. You are not your emotions. You are not your pain. All you are is love.)
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Frankly, we don’t give a damn.

Nor should we. Like a man helping his neighbor put out a fire in the other man's house. He does it as much (if not more) for his own house as for his neighbor's. We did not go to Iraqi to make it like the United State, we went to Iraqi to protect the United States by fighting the enemy on their soil, not ours.

3 posted on 02/05/2007 4:28:46 AM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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The Left hates the United States so much they ought to be happy Iraq isn't turning out like it.


6 posted on 02/05/2007 4:39:13 AM PST by InvisibleChurch (I'm a climate skeptic. I am part of the "lunatic fridge".)
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I don't see the reverse happening at all. Iraq looks EXACTLY like Ameria. There are those that try and help build and protect the country and those that constantly try to intiminate and tear it down? Where is the reverse?


9 posted on 02/05/2007 5:12:47 AM PST by moonman
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I'm just wondering about something that I haven't seen it being discussed. In every major US involvement post WWII, we saw an influx of population (refugees, etc.) from the country in question. Hence, we see many Koreans, and Vietnamese in the US. Will the same happen to Iraqis?


12 posted on 02/05/2007 5:25:27 AM PST by paudio (WoT is more important than War on Gay Marriage!)
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Iraq Was Supposed To Become Like The USA - But The Reverse Has Happened

Okay, I guess I missed the news about folks blowing themselves and others up in our big cities on a daily basis.

15 posted on 02/05/2007 5:39:07 AM PST by RichInOC ("Out! Out!"--St. Dogbert)
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tension could prove healthy, forcing American Muslims to start a dialogue

Or it could prove healthy in that it might just force at least some Americans to see just what it is that we have so eagerly imported.

16 posted on 02/05/2007 5:39:22 AM PST by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
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The root of the problem is that too many people in the US Government think that we saved and reconstructed Japan and Germany after WWII, and tried to recreate those conditions in Iraq.

The truth is, after suffering incredibly brutal military defeats, the Japanese and German peoples were ready to save themselves - and did an admirable job of it.

Like most Arab Muslims, the Iraqi people are not ready to save themselves. Whether from religious delusion or misplaced ethnic pride, there aren't enough Iraqi citizens who "get it"...some, certainly, but too few. If they would take lessons from Jordan or the UAE, Baghdad could have become another Dubai. Instead, it has become another Gaza.

32 posted on 02/05/2007 6:16:23 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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