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Coming to the right conclusions

Felicia Whately.

Published: Monday, November 26, 2007

Updated: Tuesday, February 3, 2009

What is the cure to instability in Iraq? As Americans plead to abort the mission, U.S. companies muddy the waters and embassy delegates complain that being sent to Iraq "is like a death sentence." Iran has the solution.
Blackwater, the private security company hired by the U.S. military, is in deep water. Its dirty laundry has been aired and Iraq revoked amnesty to Americans. Can we revoke amnesty to Iraqis who squander away our defense money? Iraqis want accountability. Well, we want their weapons of mass destruction. You don't see us pushing that issue much anymore.

Innocent lives have been lost for the cost of freedom. Can we get a reimbursement from Osama Bin Laden? Just send the new defense bill to Al Qaeda. Bin Laden can even pay online the next time he launches his next hate video.
In fact, he can make it a cohesive Muslim extremists' donation fund. They can all come together to help pay off the United States' deficit incurred by fighting terrorism and shoot their guns up in the air in celebratory fire.
Iran's officials proposed a brilliant idea at the Istanbul Conference on Nov. 4 on how to regain stability in Iraq. Spokesmen for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said the plan would include banishing all foreign security companies, including Blackwater.

They suggested sending Iranian, Syrian and other Arab countries' forces to supplement U.S. forces. The Iranians want to issue amnesty for all prisoners, regardless of what crimes they committed. Iran's plan proposes to merge militias to create security forces.
Syrian and Iranian criminal-run militia is Iran's great plan to combat terrorism in Iraq. Are they kidding? This is coming from a government that denies that the Holocaust ever happened and claims that there are no gays in Iran. Their idea of a gay pride parade is a lynching.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested in November that Tehran has given Baghdad "assurances" that it will stop any flow of weapons from Iran into Iraq. "It is my understanding that they have provided such assurances," Gates told a Pentagon news conference. "I don't know whether to believe them. I'll wait and see."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad countered by saying, "Regretfully, two or three monopolistic selfish powers want to force their word on the Iranian people and deny them their rights. Whatever they choose as a nation, everybody should accept and respect. Nobody should interfere in the affairs of the Palestinian nation. Nobody should sow the seeds of discord. Nobody should spend tens of billions of dollars equipping and arming one group there."

That's just what the world needs, Iranians with nuclear weapons controlling Iraq. I'd like to see the day an A-bomb is dropped on Ahmadinejad's lap. He'd have all the nuclear testing he'd ever need. Ahmadinejad is a weapon of mass dysfunction. And he was invited to speak at one of the most prestigious schools in the nation, Columbia University.

If terrorists would stop kidnapping, beheading and detonating vehicle-born explosive devices, blowing up improvised explosive devices, and shooting mortars at us, but start playing nice with Coalition Forces and their own Islamic brothers and sisters, we wouldn't have to treat Red Zone Baghdad like a gangland.
CNN likes to do a body count of how many U.S. troops have died in Iraq. Here's a dose of reality - Islamic terrorists have carried out more than 9,924 deadly attacks since 9/11. According to an anti-terrorism Web site, the Jihad attacks for October of 2007 are 242, involved 19 countries, killed 1,252 and injured 2,287, stated Thereligionofpeace.com.

"Iraqis aren't dying from war, they are being murdered by Islamic terrorists," said Iraqbodycount.net, a Web site that teaches what religious hate can do to a country. The Web site Law.unkc.edu says that Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years.
Coalition forces and our private contractors may not be perfect, but Iran's idea of taking care of Iraq's problems is irrational. We might as well give Iraq's presidency to Osama bin Laden. Or better yet, let Ahmadinejad get nukes.

Blackwater can get on boats and float to another Third World country, where they can receive amnesty and Osama Bin Laden can hang in the imbalance like Saddam Hussein used to. U.S. delegates whining about serving in Iraq can join Greenpeace and head to AIDS-afflicted African countries instead. At least then they could think they were doing the right thing. And as usual, U.S. Forces can clean up after everyone's mess.
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