[Vision2020] An Iraqi Veteran's Testimony

[Dick Sherwin]

Tom Hansen asks:  "How is Iraq currently sponsoring "terrorism against the
rest of the world?"  Last time I read, or heard, any news we were (are)
involved in a conflict in Iraq attempting to preserve the Iraqi people and
their  government.  Please enlighten us."
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Tom is correct in stating our purpose in Iraq is to preserve the Iraqi
people and their government.  However, this task appears to be impossible
for two big reasons;  First, the Iraqi's themselves are more concerned with
which religious sect is going to be in control than in forming a government
of, by and for all the people.  Second, the anti-war crowd in our own
country are making it nearly impossible to achieve any stated purpose in
Iraq by bringing political pressure on the military and swaying public
opinion against them.  This, in turn, sends a signal to the terrorists they
are winning, reinforcing their resolve to continue.

All this nonsense is causing the war to drag out, resulting in more deaths
on both sides and in the civilian population of Iraq.  This fuels the flames
of the anti-war crowd even more and intensifies the problems of ever
achieving any sort of stalemate, let alone victory, in Iraq.

As for Syria and Iran, if you believe a diplomatic approach with these
lunitics is possible, as Tom claims, "Iran and Syria are the closest to
considering (diplomatic relations) in the past 40 years), ...,"  you most
likely have not been paying attention.  Diplomacy to the Muslim world means
delaying the inevitable attack long enough to regroup, re-enforce and
prepare for the Jihad.  Iran and Syria are the two prime examples of this
philosophy.  How can we ever reach a diplomatic solution with those who kill
their own?

The only resolution left is to nuke em'.  What else would they ever
understand?

Dick S...



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "'Dick Sherwin'" <rvrcowboy at clearwire.net>; "'Vision2020'"
<vision2020 at moscow.com>; "'Sunil Ramalingam'" <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:52 AM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] An Iraqi Veteran's Testimony


> Dick Sherwin stated:
>
> "I would think the creation of a seperat nation for the Kurds, up north,
> would be a good start."
>
> Don't you mean "Return Kurdistan (which was taken away by Saddam Hussein)
to
> the Kurds."?  This could have, would have, should have, happened back in
> 1991 during Iraqi War Part 1 (when Gen. Schwarzkopf was a day's march from
> Baghdad) when Bush Sr. promised the Kurds that he would assist in getting
> Kurdistan back to them if they aided him in his fight against Hussein.
The
> result:  They did.  He didn't.  Instead of the Iraqi War Part 1 being
> strictly a general's war, and not political, as Bush Sr. originally
> promised, Bush "cooled" Schwarzkopf's heals and told him to discontinue
his
> march on Baghdad.  The Iraqi War Part 1 went to intermission.
Approximately
> ten years later (and thousands of Iraqi lives) intermission ended and in
> steps Bush Jr.
>
> Dick Sherwin goes on to state:
>
> " . . . dropping leafelets on the rest of Iraq, Iran and Syria notifying
> them they had 48 hours to either disarm and stop supporting state
sponsored
> terrorism against the rest of the world or they would be turned into a
huge
> glass fish bowl."
>
> Oh, yeah.  This is going to work.  Instead of a diplomatic approach (which
> Iran and Syria are the closest to considering in the past 40 years), let's
> give them 48 hours and nuke them.  I don't think so.
>
> Question:  How is Iraq currently sponsoring "terrorism against the rest of
> the world?"  Last time I read, or heard, any news we were (are) involved
in
> a conflict in Iraq attempting to preserve the Iraqi people and their
> government.  Please enlighten us.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
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