It is nice to know we have shared our kind of democracy with Iraq.

@ Fadal Abdallah

You wrote, “Despite the misery the Iraqis live under, I envy them for being able to muster such a huge crowd organized by a leader living in exile. Conversely, I lament our situation here in America, for despite our freedoms and the relative ease we enjoy and despite our numbers which are 12 times the population of Iraq, we have failed miserably to muster such numbers of protesters against the war and its evil…”

100,000 showing up at an Obama rally in St. Louis might suggest the opposite, eh?

By cyrena, October 18 at 11:28 pm #

Obvious typo in the last post. I meant that the Iraqis should take THEIR country back!!
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Hello Cyrena! What your referred to as a typo should stand as relevant to taking our country back too. Since we have bee entangled in this bloody situation against the interests and values of our country, the Iraqis struggle to take their country back means by extension that we here in America will also take our country back from the evil ones who hijacked it.

Despite the misery the Iraqis live under, I envy them for being able to muster such a huge crowd organized by a leader living in exile. Conversely, I lament our situation here in America, for despite our freedoms and the relative ease we enjoy and despite our numbers which are 12 times the population of Iraq, we have failed miserably to muster such numbers of protesters against the war and its evil; a situation that makes us collectively complicit in the 6-year evil being perpetrated in our name and with our increasingly scarce treasure!

So, hypothetically and God forbid, if a desperate Iraqi individual or group, bound on revenge, would perpetrate a 9/11-like attack we should not be surprised or act in self-righteousness for we all have blood on our hands!

Cyrena,

My pleasure. Another link you might enjoy along the same lines:

http://worldmeets.us/

And both have extensive lists of non-American news sources with many offering either autotranslation or English content.

Obvious typo in the last post. I meant that the Iraqis should take THEIR country back!!

Jackpine,

Thanks for the link. Excellent.

Does anybody remember McCain saying in the late debate, (typical serial lying ass) that this agreement was already a done deal? I do.

And to the Iraqis, I say…keep at it, and don’t let up. Not for a single instant. run them out!!!Take our country back!

Your democracy, which we applauded, turned us into those bereaved of children, widows, and orphans of the street begging for mercy and a piece of the bread from a government that has made itself deaf to our hunger and our eternal subjugation.

Our weariness which we live with every day and every night is dark and without water or electricity or food to satisfy the mouths of our children! Our weariness is the tears of our orphans who dream of a game or new clothes or a piece of candy. Our weariness is cancer, hepatitis, and cholera. These are the exotic diseases that followed your great liberation of us! These serious diseases, which were transferred to us, consumed the bodies of the poor and those with disabilities and injuries. We either die of a disease or hunger or under bombs of your planes.

~Zakia Al Mazuri, writing in Kitabat. The article is entitled “America, Get Out Today and not Tomorrow!”

http://watchingamerica.com/News/8915/america-get-out-today-and-not-tomorrow/

I wish them Luck on that.
Frankly we’d like to get rid of the Same occupiers who are residing in our Gov’t, and heads of Multi national conglomerates and happen to use our Flag as Camoflague.
The FAct Remains here that No Matter What Energy source we use, We will Never Be ‘Energy Independent’ Until we Take back contol & ownership of our OWN RESOURCES of Energy.
Revoke all leases- those 68,000 Acres, those they are currently Milking and those they are no Doubt Paching on or have outright Stolen. Push them back on to their OWN Properties and make them compete on the Free Global Market against US. Provide ‘Homegrown’energy to the Homeland First & Foremost and Sell the excess on the open Free market.It is NOT just the M.E. Oil’Royals’ who are Holding US Hostage it is Exxon,andChevron and those FORIEGNERS Shell, and BP.They STEAL our energy source, and sell it back to US at a horrendous Profit.
But Good Luck Iraqi’ we’ve been screaming to get rid of These Occupiers, theives and Instigators for about 30 decades, The last ‘Oil crisis’.Let’s Call it ‘Recapturing OUR National Treasures’!