What can I say? The man is good. He is a straight talker who says things that are common sense and factual.
This article is from Iraq or the Economy?

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It has killed no opponents.
It has set up no concentration camps,
starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties.
Its battles have been for education, for the vote,
for better working conditions ...
for safety on the streets, for child care,
for rape crisis clinics, women's refuges, reforms in the laws.
If someone says, "Oh, I'm not a feminist!", I ask,
"Why? What's your problem?" - Dale Spender

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Iraq or the Economy? I'll take the Economy for $300, Alex!

Paul is absolutely right. As loony as he is in general, he at least has this right.

Of course, anyone over the age of fourteen feels this same way....

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Well that is not true it seems to me that many higher up politicians that we have now that want to stay in Iraq are the loony ones.

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"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

The ones that want us to stay are the neo con artists.

Many others do not want to pull out because "we are the only thing holding Iraq together". It is not just the neo-cons keeping us in Iraq.

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"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

You presume our politicians have an intellect greater than that of a fourteen year old boy?

"Dickie, ah'm sick of this dang ol' Afghanistan video game. Whut say we go down to Best Buy an' get us that new, shiny Iraq one?"

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That's true Joe, there is what, like 15% that want to stay the current course (or something like that). I doubt that 15% (or whatever the % is) of our population is neo-conservative.

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"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

When something's been well and truly ****** like Iraq has, why not pull out?

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What was I thinking.

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"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

Here is the underlying point that needs to be made. The British drew up the maps originally defining the borders of Iraq. They ignored the hundreds of years of sectarian and ethnic conflict. Why? They wanted one country to deal with for OIL.

A radical thought - maybe they shouldn't be kept together. Maybe that is precisely where we are going wrong. The Sunnis have hated Shia Muslims for hundreds of years since their sect was formed hundreds of years ago, as they recognize Muhammed's descendents as prophets. The bedoin Kurds are not ethnically the same as the main Sunnis tribes in Iraq (who claim to be of Persian ancestry). They have faced brutal bigotry and discrimination for hundreds of years.

The Sunni Baath Party and the Saddam regime are to blame for mass murders of Kurds and Shia Muslims. WHY WOULD THEY NOW WANT TO FORM A SINGLE GOVERNMENT IN COALITION WITH THE SUNNI MUSLIMS?

Our expectation is to do what no one else has ever been able to do over hundreds of years. So why sit there in Iraq holding our breaths waiting for reconciliation?

The national government should be reduced to a coalition of province leaders. Al Malaki needs to be removed as the one spokesperson for Iraq and the executive branch. The national legislature needs to be abolished in favor of province legislatures having the primary power of the legislative branch. In short, Iraq should become a coalition of semi independent provinces, as is already clearly stated in their constitution.