Posted By:
Jeff LichtmanI've never voted for a republican in my life.
That being said, to suggest that we went in to Iraq due to oil is embarrassing. I echo what Joe D said: the reasons we went in were apparently not what Bush said they were -- which is an appalling lack of intelligence -- but we did tie up Al Qaeda and Iraq is stabilizing (at least until we leave). And whoever said they feel safe here just because the Islamic fundamentalists are only going after big ticket items in NYC -- and the poster doesn't live in NYC -- well, that sounds like the kind of guy I'd want in my foxhole! I can tell you as someone who watched the towers fall that day, everyone in NY was scared, not just the poor people who died. And if you think that Islamic fundamentalists only strike big ticket items, just ask the Israelis or the Spanish, or the English, or the (add 19 other countries) in which they struck places as mundane as pizza parlors or supermarkets or buses.
Sadly our country has become so partisan that no matter what the administration does the Democrats will be against it -- at least until the election ends (and same goes for the Republicans against the Dems). As one Dem senator said "If the surge works that's bad for the Democratic party." Very sad. I think the last time I felt that we lived in a united country, all for one and one for all, was during the few days after 9/11. After that it was back to slimy partisan politics.