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How I know the US public is wrong

U.S., militants allying against al-Qaida? - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com

From the featured article: "Khalilzad said he was encouraged be security and political developments in recent months but urged Iraqi leaders to ensure commitments were met swiftly since Americans were increasingly impatient."

What? We Americans, who scream at the person ahead of us when he's only doing 5 MPH over the speed limit and we want to go faster? We Americans, who if the burger isn't right there at the drive-thru window after we've placed our order will get all uptight and sometimes just downright mean? We Americans, who are too busy to stop for a second to look around, but are considerably more interested in grabbing the dough and racking up our credit cards so we can have that plasmat TV now?

Us? Impatient? Surely you jest.

This is how I know the US public is wrong about withdrawing from Iraq ASAP. It's taken over three years to get to the point where we're actually JUST STARTING to sway the insurgents to be a source of help. If we can't have an Instant Total Victory, it's not worth it.

I realize that at some point in time, in the chain of command, someone either got their information wrong or just plain lied, but we're in there now. Iraqis (from a MUCH earlier poll) actually at one point preferred their situation post-Saddam to when Saddam was in power. We were doing some good. We're still doing SOME good. I realize 2000+ soldiers dead is significant to the families of these soldiers, but we've lost a lot more people than that for less. We ousted a genocidal despot. Perhaps W was looking for some kind of glorious struggle unlike one we've seen since the 1940's, when we did in another genocidal despot? Perhaps W really thought there were WMDs in Iraq? I don't know, considering I'm not in his inner circle. But I was brough up being told that if I made a mess, I was expected to clean it up. I don't expect the rest of us to do any different.

Still just a word though...

No truer words...

I should do a "Greatest Hits" list.

blut

I'm foregoing any kind of serious ... anything today. Of course, it's been a while since I posted diddly here, but hey.

I found this while tooling around on Fark.com. Actually, I found it while reading a comment on Fark.com, that led to a cartoon about apostrophes on the same website.

This comic literally made me choke on my own mirth. The flower has teh funnay.

Superior

I'd like to know how they do it. How, in a poorer country than the US, can a soup kitchen (that analogy leaves a lot to be desired, by the way, as a langar is NOT a 'soup kitchen') feed so many people in a day? I haven't heard of it in the US. And yet, here is a religious group (apparently not just Sikhs, though) that puts no pressure on the recipients of its good graces, and still manages to feed ten thousand people a day. And that's just one kitchen.

In this land of prosperity, how hard could that be?

Or maybe there are langars in the US, and I just don't know about them. Wouldn't be the first time.

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