John from Cincinnati – Democracy in the Middle East or Sharia law in Europe, go ahead pick one.
Doesn’t work that way. Where you have democracy in Muslim countries, the people vote in more Islamic Law.
See Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey recently, Hamas elections, and now Bush’s “the noble purple-fingered freedom lovers!!! of Iraq” just added a wad of Islamic restrictions as the official law of the land.
If the people of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, perhaps Egypt were allowed a vote we know where it would end. Sharia and radical Islam in charge.
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John D:
A constant refrain of critics of GWB, Rumsfeld and the Iraq War is that we should have used more troops.
But where were these troops to come from?
Certainly not from the children of Neocons or any other Americans, for that matter, lining up at recruiting stations all over the country, begging to volunteer to fight and if need be, to die, so the “noble Iraqis” would be liberated and free.
Certainly not more troops from any other country in the region, who called the US preemptive war a “huge mistake”. Of course, there is “Our Special Friend”…but no other nation on the planet would have Israeli forces on the same battlefield with them and damage their international reputation and their other existing alliances.
