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Posted on Thu, Dec. 21, 2006  p 9A
http://www.macon.com/mld/telegraph/news/opinion/16293323.htm

Only way out is out

While we are waiting for the president to tell us how he is going to win the war next year, I have a few year-end remarks about the war. And the first is that we have lost this war. It is useless to talk about more or fewer troops in Baghdad, more body armor for the troops, or a new strategy for winning. The fact is that we have lost this war.

The second is that we deserved to lose it. We should have never fought it. There were no WMD. No nuclear threat, no Hitler in the making. We fought it for all the wrong reasons, then tried to justify it by saying we were creating a model democracy in the Middle East. We have succeeded in dividing Iraq into deadly divided forces committed to their own destruction, and ours. So we not only lost it, we deserved to lose it.

Third, we claim to be safer because we engaged the enemy over there. We are less safe because we brought the enemy into Iraq, and now the enemy is everywhere. If we think we are safer, try getting on an airplane. We were safer with Saddam in power; now we have a hangman's rope about his neck, and the albatross about our own. We are less secure because we are more hated.

Finally, we can't get off by blaming George Bush for the dead and the debt. We created George Bush. He did what the American people wanted him to do. America wanted to dominate the world. We tried and failed. Now Bush is the scapegoat, and we are looking for a way out with the appearance of success. The only way out is out. If we get out alive we can believe in Christmas and a New Year.

Henry A. Buchanan

Murray, Ky.


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from my son  2-28-06
Subject: Yeah, I know it' s hokey.

I have been thinking lately about peace.  What is peace?  That sort of thing.  It occurs to me that peace requires a will, a will to peace, if you will.  Peace is not to be obtained by those who simply avoid violence and passively hope for the best.
 
Peace requires maturity.  It requires us to believe of others that they are as reasonable as ourselves, that they will behave rationally and according to their best lights in order to further the greater good.  Peace requires us to understand that when others do not seem to behave reasonably, there must be some underlying cause that we need to identify and correct, in order to preserve the peace.  
 
Peace requires optimism.  Peace asks of us that when we have abundant gifts, we share them in an equitable, just, and generous manner, believing that what we share will come back to us one hundred fold.  Because peaceful people believe in the security of justice, they believe that societies can and should promote not just freedom, but justice. Bullies cannot preserve the peace; at best they can impose an onerous sort of order. 
 
Peace requires our courage.  Almost paradoxically, peace asks of us to be logical and stand with feet firmly planted when everything inside urges us to fight or flight.  Peace asks of us the ability to withstand the withering laughter of those who call us naïve.  Peace asks us to appear foolish in order to be wise.
 
Keep the faith.    


Namaste'

Gerri


Newspaper Reports:

US ends search for WMD - The White House on Wednesday said the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has ended without any evidence of the banned weapons, while guerrillas attacked a joint U.S.-Iraqi convoy in Mosul, killing two Iraqi National Guardsmen.  -  1-12-05

Spc. Philip Allan Dodson Jr. was killed in an accident near Ali Air Base in southern Dhi Quar province south of Baghdad - 12-05-05

A military vehicle carrying U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Macon, flipped on the way to the Baghdad, Iraq, airport Saturday, injuring two other members of Congress, said Marshall, who was not hurt. 11-27-05


America needs a workable plan for peace in Iraq.

The hard truth now is that over half of all Americans and over 95% of the world do not support the continued US occupation of Iraq.

That is why "staying the course" is self destructive.  And the longer we stay, the worse it will get. 

Nor is "cut and run" an option, because "if you broke it, you own it"... 

But it is also not reasonable to expect the most  powerful "bull in the china shop" to have the delicate skills needed to be able to repair the damaged porcelains. 

This is why I support the plan for a windfall profits tax on petroleum companies to pay the United Nations to completely take over the nation-building that is needed to bring healing and stability to Iraq.

As the UN moves into position, our forces can come home or they can help in Afghanistan. 

There are those who are overly concerned about past UN problems with profiteering contractors.  Yes, this has happened.  But far worse is the enormous war-profiteering by Halliburton, KBR and others, and the resulting cover-ups and corruption in Washington, DC.

- Lindsay 4-23-06


IRAQ had nothing to do with either 9-11 nor Osama Bin Forgotten. 

Our troops in Iraq deserve better than superficial  fictions.  

Think of them...
And why are they really there. 
Start your research at :
http://www.9-11commission.gov

Thank-you,
and God Bless
12-24-05


Any day now our boys on the front line are going to be exhausted, confused and enraged enough to slaughter a group of civilian men, women and children like
Mi Lai, Vietnam
http://www.wademan.com/VisionQuest/Gallery/Vietnam/VQ_Gallery_Vietnam5_My_Lai.htm
unpublished email Letter to Editors dated 5-3-04



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