The Observation Deck

To what? The gallows or dictatorship?

helping terrorist

at this point Iraqi factions made up of Iraqis are just factions in a multi-faction civil war.

they are not participants in a global terrorist initiative. fighting them may look good in short term U.S. efforts to prop up a token democracy in Iraq, but fighting them isn't fighting the global war on terrorism.

Displacing the entire government of Iraq was not a battle against global terrorism. The Islamic fundamentalist terrorist club(Al Queda) was an Islamic fundamentalist terrorist club. Iraq was, administratively and culturally, religiously moderate and secularly stable.

But at least there is democracy! people don't really care about democracy though. it isn't a benchmark of their quality of life. The firemen and policemen of Cleveland live in a democracy, but mostly would prefer not living in cleveland. So do most of the people working downtown. Although living near where they work would benefit the Unilateral War on Oil Addiction, some sacrifices should not be asked.

Like Iraqis, residents of Cleveland can fill out ballot forms several times a year. Any Iraqi with money and not-in-iraq will be sending money to friends in Iraq.

The insurgents are terrorist and many are linked to Al Qaeda. Most are from outside of Iraq and a few are Iraqis. The Iraqi insurgents are left overs from Saddam's Baath party and or Sunni.

Most of Al Queda in Iraq are Saudis, Kuwaitis, and Jordanians who have walked into Iraq since we deposed Saddam Hussein and his entire government and military. We've blown a few ten billion dollars and thousand lives rebuilding an army that was suitable for the needs of Iraq.

The civil war in Iraq is remarkable in that the different branches of muslims who had formerly lived civilly in mixed neighborhoods and went to each others parties and worked with each other are now segregating into ethnic and political enclaves. This somewhat draws up some distance between the frequent kidnappings, frequent ethnic violence, etc.

This is a gift we should cease sharing with the rest of the world. We should not share it with Iran either.

In conclusion, invading Iraq has made the entire region less safe and a more fertile recruiting ground for terrorists. George Bush is a failure, his entire regime is a failure. I am undisputably better than George Bush: Nearly 4 thousand Americans have died in Iraq and several hundred thousand Iraqis in the ensuring anarchy or civil war. I guess that is ok if you want to keep trading oil in dollars for a little while. But if I wer president those 4 thousand americans would be in America building Geothermal power plants or rebuilding commuter rail networks. And they would be alive. and the Middle East would be a safer place.

Civil War in iraq???? wtf!

You did know that the Sunnis are helping US to hunt down Al Qaeda? right

Lieutenant General Aboud Qunbur

Speaking at a joint press conference with a U.S. senior officer in Baghdad, the Lieutenant General Aboud Qunbur said "crimes and bombs declined by 90 percent and 45 percent respectively, while casualties decreased by 40 percent and car bombs by 15 percent."
"Normal life back to many regions in Baghdad," he added, asserting that Iraq will not collapse into a civil war.