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you may be right about me not having all the information to make the correct decision or express an opinion.....but ya know, i doubt if dubya and rummy have a clue. unfortunately, they are making decisions.
it may be that dubya and cohorts may reshape the middle east. iraqi exiles are streaming home to fight not for saddam but for their country, arabs are reported to infiltrating to fight the american and british crusaders, and the shiites have not revolted and streamed to support those who came to liberate. this afternoon, i caught the tail-end of a news interview(s); the jist was that increasingly saddam was becoming a figure of respect throughout the arab world. it may be that dubya is going to achieve what nasser in the 1950's was not able to do....pan-arabism. as i understand it, an arab monolith arrayed against the colonial, christain west. [yeah, yeah my grandfather told me about pan-arabism this weekend.]
finally, as a taxpayer i should have a voice in how my tax dollars are spent. i can suggest a better use for them than waging this war, rebuilding the country, and occupying iraq for 3, 5 or 10 years. the belief that iraqi oil will pay the costs of all this is fiction. iraq is hundreds of billions of dollars in arrears on its reparations to iran and kuwait and owes many other countries huge amounts.
a trillion dollars or so could create a lot of homeland security, train first responders, provide critical educational programs, and maybe help a few more people get on the path to a better tomorrow. hell, why not spend some money on new toys for the military.
jay
