No More Troops: Why the US Must Begin an Immediate Withdrawal from Iraq

By Timothy Sexton, published Jan 05, 2007
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What a country we live in. Millions of people go to the polls to declare they are fed up with the situation in Iraq created by Pres. Bush. By voting out quite a few of the rubbert stamp deadheaded Republicans who legitimized this illegal invasion by not holding the perpetrator of it accountable, the implicit message was clear: end this war and bring home moms and dads, brothers and sisters, wives and husbands and sons and daughters who weren't fortunate enough to be born with the last name Bush. And now the brilliant minds running the country are at it again: let's end this war by sending MORE troops over there.

The US presence in Iraq is based on a series of lies, misleading statements and bad analysis. The reasons for not immediately pulling every remaining American soldier from Iraq are based upon the same things. America does not and never did have a viable national security reason for invading Iraq: the country presented no immediate danger to our shores, was not involved in anyway with the tragedies that happened on September 11, 2001, and possessed not one single weapon of mass destruction, despite what Bush and Cheney and Rice and Rumsfeld and Powell and McCain and Frist and Guiliani told us. Therefore America should begin to immediately create a plan to withdraw all troops from Iraq because it is an unwinnable war, because the Iraqis have by now exhausted whatever desire they may have had for a democracy, and because the US has made life for most Iraqis worse than it was under Saddam.

Takeaways
  • Bush never declared war on an army. He declared war on an abstraction: terror.
  • The way things are going, more Americans will have died for that country's independence than died for America's own.
  • Iraqis today have less freedom to walk the street, have less access to electricity and water, and even pay for more gasoline than they did before the US invasion.
Did You Know?
The US has lost more than territory or ground, they have lost the hearts and minds of the Iraqis. Those people no longer believe that we know what is best for them and can make that happen.
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Real Patriots Hate War. This quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower illustrates the evil of the military: "This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience...we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. " A war abroad ALLWAYS restricts freedom at home.

Posted on 10/11/2007 at 7:10:00 PM

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