tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20070006.post3032399627533940720..comments2024-03-28T04:39:55.959-07:00Comments on A Little Reality: Iraq Costs in Perspectiveknighterranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886831250521410342noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20070006.post-53494366455573955442007-07-12T14:30:00.000-07:002007-07-12T14:30:00.000-07:00Just like KE can't accept that people are in priso...Just like KE can't accept that people are in prison because, maybe,... they COMMITTED CRIMES, in the same way, he cannot believe that the bombs going off in marketplaces in Iraq are the world of Islamic terrorists, not the US military.<BR/><BR/>I know that leftists always oppose Democracy, but this is too much..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20070006.post-12417712186619790572007-07-11T22:44:00.000-07:002007-07-11T22:44:00.000-07:00It would be pleasant to believe the fantasy that t...It would be pleasant to believe the fantasy that the United States military <B>is not</B> killing Iraqis, both civilians and insurgents. We <B>are</B> killing Iraqis, sometimes "bad guys" but often innocents. I could list hundreds of examples, <A HREF="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/editors" REL="nofollow">here is one</A>.knighterranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14886831250521410342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20070006.post-14182351641716558722007-07-11T14:42:00.000-07:002007-07-11T14:42:00.000-07:00We are not killing Iraqis, you idiot. Al-Qaeda an...We are not killing Iraqis, you idiot. Al-Qaeda and Iranian backed terrorists are killing Iraqis. We are trying to protect Iraqi civilians.<BR/><BR/>Hoe ignorant could you be?<BR/><BR/>So, do you think that if the US left Iraq, the killing of Iraqi civilians would increase or decrease?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20070006.post-19661472841558988732007-07-06T13:11:00.000-07:002007-07-06T13:11:00.000-07:00That's startling. I hadn't thought of it that way...That's startling. I hadn't thought of it that way before.<BR/><BR/>Would it be feasible to pull all our troops out and just issue checks to Iraqis?<BR/><BR/>Seems like it would be.<BR/><BR/>And if we did that, we would probably have even more leverage in negotiating the development of Iraq's oil fields vs. using force.PoliShifterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16524480334048786423noreply@blogger.com