Iraqi Forces Ready for U.S. Withdrawal

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Yes, Jeff is correct. Aura your comments only show your ignorance of history, what our country was founded on, and the democratic process in general. Democracy is rarely something given, but instead something earned through vigilance. Look at the bigger picture and the future. I don't know about you, but I want a safer WORLD for my children and grand children, not just a safer country here. In 50 years, the importance of the US will be dwarfed by countries like China and India via today's economics and population metrics. NOW is the time for us to help set the stage. It is NOT the time for us to sit back and pretend things will go back to the post WWII expansion of US bliss. That time is gone forever. Be thankful you are here in the US, and be thankful the leaders of this country, whether dem or rep are more educated about world politics than you are.

jeremy of OH 11:29AM July 09, 2010

Another naive American citizen who seems satisfied with simple answers. The world is not as black and white as you portray Aura. If you knew more, you might (perhaps grudgeling) be grateful for what our countries leaders and military forces prevented. It was not perfect or as planned. It was not just "Bush and Cheney" go read the transcripts of the bill to authorize the invasion. Many Democrats joined especially those who were given access to all the info... Bill Clinton's Deputy National Security advisor wrote a book on the key reasons we had to invade. Iraq is slowly embarking on becoming a stable democracy. Its a slow painful process... but in 50 years history will show we helped started the flowering of the mideast. Our revolution was equally brutal and bloody AFTER we defeated the British. Go study American history from 1795 to 1820. We Americans fought, killed, terrorized our OWN citizens many times in battles, riots, rebellions well before the civil war erupted. What the article shows is that Iraq is on its way.

Jeff of TX 9:28AM July 09, 2010

Bush, Cheney & Rice are proved to have lied to Congress to start the illegal Iraq war for oil. We're taxed to pay for schools, hospitals, infrastructure. security, etc. HERE. Our taxes are stolen to pay contractors like Cheney's boss Halliburton, to do all that stuff for people who happen to live over a sea of oil. I wish there were some way to confiscate everything stolen from the public by crooked public officials. Instead, Bush enjoys his ranch while Americans are being foreclosed because his acts helped wreck the economy. We must demand an immediate "pull out" and make fanatics stop calling Muslim nations "an axis of evil." The men who used the planes on the WTC died with their victims so there never was any sense in a mission to "find and punish the killers." They acted as part of a religion that participates in politics and were never a "nation." After murders at the WTC, their homelands, including Saudi Arabia, should have been involved with the US Dept. of State to agree on tremendous compensation for families of victims.

aura dawn veirs of CA 9:36PM July 08, 2010