This post is the sixth comment I collected from various people I know related to this blog post's title. The first entry was from a well known, New England based folk singer and I also posted there that I don't believe I'm qualified to comment on politics as such. The second came from an Irish fellow working in the states, the third was from a concert pianist who took a job with an Inc500 DemandGen/LeadGen firm in order to spend more time with her family. The fourth was from one of NextStage's researchers, Calum, and the fifth was from one of my correspondents, CDFW. This one is from another correspondent, Stonewall.
re lies, I saw their presentation on C-Span and only problem I have is they didn't clearly show/prove that in private they believed different than what they said publicily (which is lying). I, for one, never believed anything they said. To me it was a geo-strategic necessity to invade since we had large forces and held 2/3 of the country. However, once Turkey refused to allow our troops to move through their border I knew it was time to abandon the idea, sigh. And it never occurred to my how badly they'd handle the occupation. I would have allowed most of the bath -:) types a wash and put a military govenor in charge.
It took a long time but about 15+- years ago political scientists admitted that it took a benighed dictator (King of England - forced to be benighed -:), Washington by training and inclination, and Atturk similar, I think) to set the conditions to slid into a democracy.
Anyway, when I saw the long, huge, lines of military age males walking home with none of our folks taking names to checking on them I knew we were in for trouble.
sigh
Oh, and if you had been following things over the years you knew Al'Q hated secular Islamic gov'ts and vice versa. I can't believe 30%+ of the country still thinks there was a significant link (mostly folks who watch fox news, I think, sigh**2)
later
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