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  cakreator at 08/28/2008 2:55:37 PM
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  I will not get into the arguement of whether we should get out of Iraq now or later. Rather I want to remind people of why we really went in the first place. Saddam Hussein had promised to pay $80,000 to the family of any suicide bomber who gave his life for Islam - translated America, the Great Satan, who installed Saddam in the first place. 9/11 certainly would have qualified for payment multiple times. I would remind people that in the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, U.S. armed forces found cash stashes in amounts that would guarantee Saddam could do precisely that, regardless of whether he actully did or not. Since we installed Saddam, we had an obligation to take him out. But just to take Saddam was not enough; he had a family and military network established which would make things worse if we didn't take them out also. That is what our troops are trying to do now. Successfully? Only history will tell. I do know that when Lyndon Johnson was running for president, he ran on a ticket oppossing the Viet Nam war - all the while he was stockpiling arms and loading ships and training troops, which were deployed as soon as he won the election. He campaigned oppossing the was while all his military advisors told him that if he waited to deploy the troops, the Viet Cong would be so firmly entrenched that we would loose the war - which is exactly what happened. I am no longer in a position to have inside information on top secret military information, but I learned NEVER to trust what ANY candidate says s/he will do in military matters. I DO trust the military to do the BEST job they can in ANY situation, REGARDLESS of the politicians, with whatever resources they have available. I give credit and honor to them.
  And lets not forget, Presidents don't pass the laws. Whether Obama or anyone else gets us out of Iraq, all government programs require funding and no politician is going to vote to tax away half of his income without also voting enough loopholes to keep her/his own money. Loopholes that most of us will never qualify for - and we won't qualify for the government sponsored programs, either.
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  dickpeery at 05/26/2008 9:47:58 AM
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  The New GI Bill is vital and well deserved, but Sundaa Bridgett Jones leaves off the most important way to help our men and women in service: BRING THEM HOME!
  As long as we tolerate the endless occupation of oil lands, the count of the 4000-plus American deaths and 30,000 wounded will continue to grow along with the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi victims. The election of Obama as president may or may not make the difference we need, but it is guaranteed that a President McCain will continue the slaughter.