You have not closed Saddam's torture chambers. You have replaced Saddam...
The Americans are trapped. There is nothing they can do. They will fail if they continue along this path, and they will fail if they pull out. But continuing will be the greater defeat.Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Iranian leader
BBC News May.16.04
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So can we now at least begin to wonder whether the driving force behind all this might not possibly be someone or something that doesn't care about the long-term effects on America? That doesn't care about America or the American people at all? That considers what America could have been, and might still be, unimportant?
Look at it.
American young men and women are dying and being crippled every day, America's reputation is dying, America's resources are draining away, and the revenge that burns in the hearts of a billion people is focused mainly at America, and Americans.
Because most people are the same. They can't distinguish the minority from the majority but see us all as "America" and "Americans". So that even the innocent, who were tricked into supporting this, and the valiant, who stood against it when it was dangerous to do so, are going to be seen as having done this, to Iraq, and to the world. Why should we bear this? Because we were tricked into believing? Because we were lied to? Why shouldn't the people who lied to us bear the shame and guilt instead?
