On Apr 13, 11:31 am, Harlan Lachman wrote:
In article .com,

wrote:
Mythical war on terror?

SRC, you misread the post to which you were replying. Of course there is
real terror focused against us. It kills real people.


I did not miss read anything Harlan, here is the exact quote:
" Polls done by conservative newspapers show 70% of Canadians NOT in
support of our soldiers being in Afghanistan fighting Bush's mythical
"war on terror", "




Our current inept president is feeding more and more fuel on the
misplaced anger against our country and likely more American lives will
be lost directly as a result of terrorist activity engendered as a
result of his policies.


"We are engaged in a basic struggle," says Senator John McCain. "A
struggle between humanity and inhumanity, between builders and
destroyers. If fighting these people and preventing the export of
their brand of radicalism and terror is not intrinsic to the national
security and most cherished values of the United States, I don't know
what is."

What the poster was referring to was the activities of this
administration having little to do with terrorism (other than perhaps
feeding its fire).

Tell that to the 25,000 troops in Afghanistan, including some 14,000
serving in the NATO-led force, which totals about 36,000 troops. You
may be willing to bow down to terrorists but they are not.

Our war in Iraq is over oil.

Bull****, they do not have any measurable oil in Afghanistan, and the
amount coming out of iran is very little on the world market. If we
wanted to go to war over oil I can think of several other more
profitable places to invade.


The administration made
it clear with its handouts to maintain oil fields and its recent
insistence that Iran allow foreign multinational corporations to control
its oil reserves.

Iran does not have the infrastructure or equiptment to do the job.
Until they have a stable govt more people in Iraq will profit by the
oil getting to a being sold on the market. Lets hope the contracts
"handouts" are given out according to the countries helping Iran the
most.


As far as electrical, water, and health we destroyed
the lives of Iraquis making any sort of lasting peace problematic.

We destroyed? **** just yeaterday an Al-Queida suicide bomber tried to
destroy the newly ELECTED parlement, and they destroyed a major bridge
in the country..Not the USA. I'm glad the Iraqi elected leaders are
not as gulliable as you are.

Iraqi lawmakers expressed outrage and resolve today in a rare session
of parliament on the Muslim holy day, a day after a suicide bomber
ripped through their cafeteria in a brazen attack inside Baghdad's
U.S.-guarded Green Zone.

A red and white bouquet sat in place of Mohammed Awad, a Sunni member
of the moderate National Dialogue Front killed in Thursday's attack on
the parliament cafeteria. Lawmakers ambled up to the podium to
denounce the bombing, including one man with his arm in a sling and a
woman wearing a neck brace.

"The more they (terrorists) act, the more solid we become. When they
take from us one martyr, we will offer more martyrs," Vice President
Adil Abdul-Mahdi said. "The more they target our unity, the stronger
our unity becomes."

Sounds like a determined new govt to me.


Our efforts in Afghanistan have resulted in the greatest upsurge in
opium and related poppy product exports in such a short time in our
lifetime. The war on drugs is another bait and switch (as the Iraq oil
fiasco) creating a class of criminals, more fear (a staple of this
administration's policies) and a distraction both in focus and use of
funds against the real crimes and criminals in this country.

Can we now get back to boating/cruising.

A freedom you can enjoy, without worry. Freedoms nice huh?

Joe

Harlan

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To respond, obviously drop the "nospan"?