Nice one, levotb. Leave a comment on the blog of one of Iraq’s most courageous internet pioneers and call his country a toilet bowl. You’re a peach.
You resort to buzzwords instead of thought — invoke the boogieman “neocons” and you spare yourself the trouble of making a coherent argument. Were you following events a little more closely you would know that there is hardly a “neocon” left in the Bush administration. They were pretty much gone before the ’04 elections, primarily because Bush did NOT heed their advice. It’s hard to say how things would have gone had he done so, but it would be a very different war and a different Iraq — Chalabi would have been the [puppet?] leader and American troops would probably have been out of there within a year. Moreoever, it’s a safe guess that Iraq would be awash in more blood than even your fevered imagination can conjure up, and Iran would have moved in set up camp by now. But a little genocide is a small price to pay for keeping our military home and bored, and our coffers full for socialist pipe-dreams — right? Mr. Obama said as much last July, and the Reid/Pelosi brigade seem quite content with the prospect. Those of us who have sons over there spend a lot of time thinking about the future of the Iraqi people — thinking, and CARING whether the mutual respect, trust and friendship that has built up over time between most Iraqis and their American “occupiers” will be thrown away by all those who care about nothing except ruining George Bush. Your sort will deny the existence of that trust, of course, but that’s because you have NO IDEA what’s going on over there. Mohammed Fahdil has lived through it all. It takes some nerve to contradict him from the safety of your American fox-hole.
