March 27, 2007: "Cutting & Running"
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I have a super important audition tomorrow. Wish me good tidings!
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March 27, 2007: "Cutting & Running"
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I have a super important audition tomorrow. Wish me good tidings!
4 Comments:
I'm not surprised that you are frustrated. Perhaps you need to get some new reading material. Search "accomplishments in Iraq" and you will find a plethera of information about positive changes that have occurred there since Sadam was taken out. Yahoo even has a survey question out there...check it out...and you will see responses from lots of people who believe it is so. Then go the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal and check out Who Is Lying ABout Iraq? by Norman Podhoretz(www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007540) In it you will find many quotes from all sorts of folks who believed that Iraq was a serious threat before George Bush was even elected President, as well as another perspective about the infamous "trip to Niger to buy Uranium".
What you seem to need is a bit of perspective...maybe a dose of a more conservative viewpoint every now and then.
Maybe you can take some comfort in the fact that over twelve million people, over 75% of the population of Iraq, went to the polls and voted, in spite of the danger to their own lives and in spite of the fact that many people said it would never happen.
Then maybe you should take a breather from blaming everything on the current administration, if there is blame to be placed, about deceptions with respect to going to war.
And perhaps instead of trying to come up with all the reasons WHY terrorism exists, you might want to think of all the reasons why it shouldn't exist. Take solice in the fact that a brutal dictator is no longer in the Middle East, and Iraq, in spite of all the rhetoric to the contrary, is much better off, especially the females! A little girl in Iraq can now go to school and choose her own destiny.
And if all that doesn't cheer you up a bit, just think....next year there will be a regime change here in the United States, and, no matter who wins, it will be a peaceful turnover. Now isn't that a wonderful thing?
Good tidings!
I can empathize. My obsession is with everything going on in Africa. Aids, malaria, civil wars, genocide, etc... Millions have died in the last two decades alone.
Any news about the "super important audition"...? I hope you did well.
Maggie-
I appreciate your sentiments. I know you wish for the best. But what depresses me even further is that the good things that you have pointed out about Iraq are at least a year gone.
Sure, 12 million people turned out to vote. But the government they voted into office isn't taking serious steps to halt the civil war. And there's no way another election could be held now. On top of that a third of the population has been displaced and over 2 million Iraqis (the non-extremists) have fled the country altogether.
Sure girls can go to school. But attendance at elementary schools has dropped by 70% because they're afraid of being killed. Almost 50% of the kids in Baghdad have witnessed "a major traumatic event." The capital can't even sustain electricity 24 hours a day.
Regardless of the reasons we went to war, in hindsight it seems that the people planning the war had no idea what they were getting us into. Still, thanks for the encouragement and I do truly hope that this troop surge can stop the violence and get the Iraqis back to talking.
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