From: John Cuccia 

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:54:51 -0500, "Mark"
 wrote:

>Talk to your representative on that count John, they overwhelmingly
>authorized the Iraq war, on the basis of many (at least 17 as I recall)
>counts -- all but one of which are handily ignored these days.

A nice bit of revisionism there.  The warmongers *overwhelmingly*
emphasized the fact that Saddam had WMDs (and that we knew exactly where
they were), that Saddam had links to bin Laden and AQ, and that Iraq
proposed a grave and gathering threat to the United States.  All three of
those propositions have been proven wrong by events.

The other primary reason for the overthrow was the utopian neocon vision of
Iraq as a democratic ally in the Mid-East, a vision that could only have
been conceived by those ignorant of the history of the region.  That was a
pipe dream too.

What's left?  Come on, you have at least 13 other reasons for the invasion.
 What were they?

>Now that Saddam is dead, let us hope that things improve; let us hope that
>the recently elected majority here in the US continue to shy away from the
>"cut and run" platform they used to gain power.

While you Pollyannas continue to "hope that things improve", they
are demonstrably getting worse, and at an increasing rate.   Further, you
again fail to grasp the obvious: Saddam became irrelevant to the outcome of
events in Iraq as soon as his government was overthrown. From that point
on, the Shi'ite majority in Iraq, and, by extension, their representatives
in Iran, had all the power.

>And on a less confrontational note, I truly wish you and all here, a great
>2007

Same to you and yours, and all the other good folk of Barktopia.

>I hope that the world will be better a year from now

I see no chance of that happening.  Things in the Mid-East are going to get
much, much worse in the coming year.  We'll be lucky if the war hasn't
spread throughout the region by the end of the year.

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