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Originally posted by sgtclub
If I didn't know better I would think you were part of the blame America first crowd. Why are you always so willing to look at the glass half empty? Yes, I understand the need to be critical, and the press (even when they are wrong) does serve this need. But why don't you view this positively? 2 years ago it was a totalitarian state. Now it is moving toward a democracy with 7.5 million (or whatever number) voting for a president in October and for parliment February. When viewed like that I'm not sure how you can view this as not positive.
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The glass is not half-empty, it's been blown away by insurgents. Iraq is moving closer to chaos than to democracy. The only good thing I see to come out of the war in Iraq is no more SH. So what? I don't feel like the world is any safer; in fact, it's just the opposite. The war in Iraq has been an expensive disaster, both strategically and tactically.