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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:02 AM
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Poll question: Who will liberate Iraq from the American Occupation?
Does Iraq have any genuine allies against the US Occupation? I can't even think of who they can turn to for protection...
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:09 AM
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1. The American Voters Will Liberate Iraq From The American Occupation...
....as soon as the majority of Americans have had enough killing and maiming of our soldiers, get fed up with spending $82+ Billion a year on financing this war and get fed up watching our own country fall into a shambles because all the funding was cut and reallocated to war.
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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:25 AM
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5. How many, how much????
You have a rose colored view of reality my friend, there have already been over 100,000 deaths, Iraqi, Afghan, coalition forces, and foreign civilians.

The cost of this debacle has is just short of $300 billion, and is going up when you add in the supplemental requests.

And yet, it still isn't enough for the American voters, 2006 will bring about little change in the make up of the U.S. Congress, and when you throw in the BBV machines without paper trails, it seems
almost hopeless.

The American voter will never know what is going on in this country,
mainly because the media at the behest of their corporate masters will never reveal the truth of what's really going on.

And we know at 59,000,000 American voters don't have the brains God gave to a jackass, because they can't see past their bigotry or hatred.

So I myself will not depend on the American voters, at least not the
59,000,000 that voted for Bush, because as we already see they were
more concerned with gay marriage then with people dying in a war of
want and not one of need.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:10 AM
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2. By whatever process, either prolonged or foreshortened, ....
... it is most likely to be a Pan-Arab/Pan-Islamic coalition. The West, including NATO, has a track record of Middle Eastern exploitation. Even the Balfour Declaration was a presumptive Imperial authority over Middle Eastern autonomy. Societal self-determinism is the foremost principle of Liberty.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:11 AM
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3. Other: Iraqis. nt
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:14 AM
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4. Moqtada al Sadr n/t
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:28 AM
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6. Nobody, I hope. I am not fighting in a WW for Bush
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BringEmOn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:29 AM
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7. When every drop of oil has been exploited, we'll leave.
Doesn't matter who's in "power"
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:29 AM
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8. As soon as the politicians don't see a payoff in votes.
Which means when the voters have to start paying for the war in blood and money and feel it. Then, and only then, will the politicians start shopping for votes by offering a way out.

So far, the voters are merely grumpy. There is no anti-war movement to speak of. The American troops, for the most part, only emerge from their fortresses to make massive assaults on remote villages for show and take few casualties.

It looks like it's going to be awhile until the bills come due and the people wake up to the fact that their pockets are being picked by the politicians.
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:32 AM
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9. Other; the Iraqis.
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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:33 AM
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10. Other ---- MNA Day 3 is only 5 deaths away
Peaceful, persistent denial of support for Bu$h, his fellow war criminals and the corporate infrastructure that enables them is the most meaningful way each of us can liberate Iraq from Bu$h's illegal occupation.

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Be it MNA Day 3 or 8 or 15 or .... the day will come when 10s of millions of Americans and others stop their typical activities for 24 hours and urge 10 times that many to join should another MNA Day be required. On that glorious day America will have begun truly to be "America," again.
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Itsthetruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:39 AM
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11. Only The Iraqi People Can End The Occupation ....
with help from a visible, growing and united anti-war movement in the United States and the rest of the world.

Let's hope that anti-war leaders and organizations can end their sectarian divisions and unite to build truly massive anti-war protests this fall. They dropped the ball when they decided to abandon opposition to the occupation and threw all their energy, money and resources behind a pro-occupation candidate .... John Kerry.

Now that was really dumb! Let's hope they have come to their senses and try to rebuild the anti-war opposition.
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