And just because I'm pretty sure no one is reading this (PARANOIA:exceptforyourworstenemies
whoreadingiteverydayandaregoingtousethisinformationtodestroyyou), here's about Iraq.

You know every one is saying that the war is a conspiracy or that it was a mistake in the first place, or that Bush is a nut case cowboy, and therefore we should pull out. I am willing to grant all that, but it doesn't seem like that means we should pull out. For the simple reason that once upon a time Iraq had a government that could keep civil war from breaking out and keep other countries from subjugating its people, and we destroyed it. It may have been an evil dictatorship, but it did the things any government is supposed to do. How can we think that somehow the chaos which will ensue if we pull out before they have a stable government again wont be on our heads? That's like 'freeing' an animal that has been trained to never ever eat food that isn't in its dish by tossing it out in the wild. It has the wrong training for survive in the wild and it will probably starve to death.

If we pull out before they can handle it, is there any reason why the shit (that will go down) wont be our fault?

Unless of course you think that this is all a scheme to control the oil and therefore the nefarious orchestrators of this plot mean us to stay in Iraq indefinitely. But I really must know- if the war is really about oil- why in heck are gas prices still so high?