Dear Editor,
During the first Presidential debate, the current occupant of the White
House made the following statement:
And so the best indication about when we can bring our troops home -- which I really want to do, but I don't want to do so for the sake of bringing them home; I want to do so because we've achieved an objective -- is to see the Iraqis perform and to see the Iraqis step up and take responsibility.
He didn't say, "when the AlQaeda cells have been destroyed." Why? Because
there aren't any there and never were. Moreover, he didn't say, "when the
weapons of mass destruction have been removed," because when America and
it's allies attacked. there weren't any of those there either. Not only
had Saddam Hussein been disarmed but the United States and Britain have
since dumped hundreds of thousands of tons of nuclear wastes (depleted
uranium) on the country. And they have no plan whatsoever to take those out.
What he did say, in language that's familiar to any abused spouse, is that
the punishment of Iraqis will stop when they "perform . . step up and take
responsibility." The occupation will continue until the people of Iraq can
prove that they want freedom.
So, now we know it's clearly the Iraqi's own fault that first they were
ruled by a local tyrant and now they are ruled by a foreign one. When will
they ever learn?