I am waiting for Naomi Klien to do the same after she wished failure for Iraq.

The Bush administration won’t support democracy in this country. Why would it go to Iraq to start a democracy? Well, of course, it wouldn’t.

Is there anybody who really believes that democracy will bloom in Iraq? Unfortunately, that part of the world never when through the rejection of an all-controlling church. Until that happens, as it did with Europe’s reformation, democracy doesn’t have anywhere to lay down roots.

I’m startled that the right has rejected its policies of the cold war. Back then, the right leaving administration’s found a dictator, gave him money, and got what they wanted. Back then, it was the liberal left that wanted to start democracies.

This democracy argument will show its bankrupcy when the democratically elected government of Iraq demands that we remove all troops and we decide that we won’t do that ‘for their own good.’

Let’s stop this nonsense, go to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and get those people who attacked us. They got what they wanted. How about we get some payback?

I wish more politicians (and average citizens) would acknowledge that regardless if we “should” have gone into Iraq, we ARE THERE and have a moral duty to stay the course. We also have a duty to have strong national security; should Iraq fall to the terrorists with the help of Iran, we would have a MUCH bigger problem (threat) on our hands….

Logic is much needed in the Democratic party right now. Please consider the following as well.

If some of these pundits would actually work what they consider to be “menial” jobs they might understand why we just flat don’t agree with them. Talk to the SMALL farmer, the SMALL rancher, the little “peons” at these big corporations. The ones living paycheck to paycheck. Once the farms and the ranches go……..who’s going to feed Americans, let alone anyone else. Talk to a dairy farmer about their fuel bill……..talk to ANY farmer about their fuel bill…………THEN ask them what they are getting a bushel for their soybeans or a gallon of milk. Farmers around here are selling their cattle, their leases, and even their farms because it’s simply an effort in futility to even TRY to make a profit with the outrageous price of fuel now. Yet, the Democrats are more concerned about ANIMALS than the people that put their food on the table. Something is incredibly wrong with that picture.

Don’t get me wrong……I’m a diehard animal lover……BUT when the choice is between an animal being used as the reason for no oil wells started and between PEOPLE actually having something to eat on the table……….there’s no contest……food for people SHOULD come first. Please explain to a starving child (and there WILL be starving people all over if we don’t do something to bring the farmers’ fuel bills down to manageable size) that the polar bears, a fish, or a bird comes before getting food for them to eat.

Please don’t give me that spiel about not drilling now because it will take 10 years to make a difference. Once we start drilling the prices will come down drastically precisely because the oil producing nations will be scared to death to lose the millions that they are so comfortably used to getting from us. Had this been started back in the 70’s when the gas crunch hit, things would have been a lot different now. We need to start thinking about PEOPLE for a change rather than animals and the “pristine beauty of nature”. Oil wells can be drilled and alternative energy can be accomplished without spoiling nature OR ruining animals’ habitats. It’s high time we started doing something about it.

If your buddy Obama had been in office 2 years ago, we’d have slunk out of there in defeat and a bloodbath would have ensued.

This is the first time I have EVER heard you say that ANY Republican may have been right about something. Astonishing.