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                    MountainClimber56,
                
                Stop it! Please stop it! You nor Bush had any clue of life in Iraq, before, during or after Saddam Hussein! There is still no concept in America about Iraq outside of TV propaganda! Why Iraq was invaded is of little consequence right now! It was a crime! The justification and the results are secondary!
                
                    posted by
                    Glennb
                     on November 9, 2006 at 9:20 AM
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                    Parnell, though I do not agree with your assesment -- I really
                
                have no solid ground to argue with you!
                
                    posted by
                    MountainClimber57
                     on November 9, 2006 at 7:49 AM
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                    Chilitree -- Leadership is important whether it be a King, Queen,
                
                President, Primie Minister, Governor, etc.,
                
                    posted by
                    MountainClimber57
                     on November 9, 2006 at 7:48 AM
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                    CeeMarie -- Some very powerful words of insight -- Thank You!
                
                
                
                    posted by
                    MountainClimber57
                     on November 9, 2006 at 7:47 AM
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                    Mountainclimber
                
                    I can't help but laugh listening to all this talk about 'giving democracy' and 'the gift of democracy'. 
  America didn't present a 'gift', they bombed a country to smitherines in order to ensure that they could maintain a cheap oil supply. That country, Iraq, has by the most credible accounts paid with the lives of well over half a million people. Some of these were killed in factional fighting triggered by the U.S., but a very large number of them were killed by your beloved American combat soldiers.
  Two days ago the American people made it clear that they reject the invasion and occupation of Iraq - not just the execution of the war but the principles behind the invasion itself.
                
                    posted by
                    Antipodean
                     on November 9, 2006 at 2:49 AM
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                    yea! thank you Chili!
                
                so I am making some sense after all...
                
                    posted by
                    marieclaire66
                     on November 9, 2006 at 1:01 AM
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                    I agree with Marie-Claire
                
                There are good kings and bad kings, Iraq needs a good king.
                
                    posted by
                    Chilitree
                     on November 9, 2006 at 12:53 AM
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                    democracy is a poisoned gift in a country like Iraq.
                
                Democracy is a gift of wisdom not freedom, Iraq is not  ready for a democracy, such nations have been under dictatorship for as I long  as we have know democracy. Do you give a crystal glass to a bull in a China shop? Iraq is not ready for a democracy because they simply cannot handle it. America gave them nothing but false hope. Leave them alone to sort themselves out, give humanitarian aids to those poor people but keep out of their political affairs, what did Bush achieve in the end? Not a lot, just fuelled more anger. It takes time to get a nation to grow into sufficient maturity to handle democracy. You simply cannot give democracy any more than you can give a human being wisdom, wisdom is earned through time and learning, it is not imposed, it is offered, explained then slowly understood. Do you think getting rid of one dictator will suddenly bring democracy, you got to  be kidding. It simply does not happen that way, those people will carry on fighting among each other as they have always done.
                
                    posted by
                    marieclaire66
                     on November 9, 2006 at 12:48 AM
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                    Thank you, Writer Of Light -- Freedom is such a precious gift@
                
                
                
                    posted by
                    MountainClimber57
                     on November 8, 2006 at 7:22 PM
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                    Well put! 
                
                    
  
                
                    posted by
                    WriterofLight
                     on November 8, 2006 at 5:17 PM
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