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Title:
We Should Listen to Ahmadinejad and Withdrawal Our Troops
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December 12, 2006
In a letter to the American people, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran urged the people to demand the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and to reject what he called the American government's "blind support" for Israel and its "illegal and immoral" actions in fighting terrorism. His letter denounced President Bush's policies in the Middle East and U.S. practices in the war on terror.
Ahmadinejad said in the letter that the U.S. invasion of Iraq, while overthrowing Saddam Hussein, which people "are happy about," had led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, an exponential growth of terrorism, and no rebuilding of Iraq's ruined infrastructure. "I consider it extremely unlikely that you, the American people, consent to the billions of dollars of annual expenditure from your treasury for this military misadventure," he said. Maybe the elected official has a point and we should withdrawal our troops and let them fend for themselves.
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Interesting topic. My two cents:
I'm sick of the back and forth, I'm liberal so I don't support my government, I'm conservative and I don't support my president, etc. bull****. The bottom line is our boys (and girls) are over there risking and losing their lives for something our government believes in. Whether or not I agree with that choice, I am going to support EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE TROOPS until they are all home again. And Iran opening their mouth to say anything but "Thank you, please don't kill us" just chaps my ass.
posted by Tigriz(190) 18 months and 20 days ago
Univ. President
I agree to the citigirl and we should never bother what other say about us.
posted by teammate(550) 18 months and 15 days ago
Aspiring Patriot
Anything the madman leader of Iran says should be quickly dismissed. If Ahmadinejad wants it, it's probably bad for the civilized world.
posted by Teknokon(46) 18 months and 12 days ago
Aspiring Patriot
We didn't ask for his opinion when we started this mess, so we probably shouldn't give a rat's @ss what he thinks now, either.
posted by Thor(350) 18 months and 9 days ago
Aspiring Patriot
Did anyone see the comedy bit that compared Ahmadinejad's style of clothes with Obama. They are pretty similar! Anyway, I don't think we should listen to a word that this guy says.
posted by Bella(350) 18 months and 7 days ago
Aspiring Patriot
I actually don't agree with this guys views, but I really think we should withdraw from Iraq as soon as possible. It is enough that already so many American Soldiers have died, but the hundreds of thousands of Iraquis that have died because of this war is really a crime against humanity, and Bush will be blamed for that when history judges him... of course he doesn't care. I hope he changes his mind and really starts bringing back our troops!
posted by SallyDP(300) 18 months and 5 days ago
Aspiring Patriot
This man is evil incarnate. Think about it... why would he want or care about us in Iraq unless it benefited himself? He could easily take over Iraq as soon as we left.
posted by Ajax(40) 18 months and 4 days ago
ASB VP
In response to SallyDP: Yes 3000 Americans have died and I'm sick about that. What is your evidence that "hundreds of thousands" of Iraqis have died???
We lost 6,000 Marines on Iwo Jima. Would you have the same "runaway" reaction that you have now???
President Bush will be remembered well in history because he stood up to the terrorists and didn't placate them as clinton did.
posted by dasuit(150) 18 months and 3 days ago
Aspiring Patriot
In response to dasuit:
Here are few places that talk about the Iraqis body count since the 2003 US invasion: January 9, 2006
30,000? No. 100,000? No.
How Many Iraqis Have Died Since the US Invasion in 2003?
By ANDREW COCKBURN
President Bush's off-hand summation last month of the number of Iraqis who have so far died as a result of our invasion and occupation as "30,000, more or less" was quite certainly an under-estimate. The true number is probably hitting around 180,000 by now, with a possibility, as we shall see, that it has reached as high as half a million.
Full article: http://www.counterpunch.org/andrew01092006.html
Again, I am not saying we should listen to Ahmadinejad, but I believe we should just stop this, and bring back the troops.
posted by SallyDP(300) 18 months and 3 days ago
Aspiring Patriot
The letter was a sincere attempt to communicate a message to the Americans by-passing their government. Ahmadinejad knows the Bush administration won't talk to him, so he's talking to the Americans directly. The neoconservative faction ruling in Washington has rejected a very good offer of negotiations from the previous, "moderate", government of Iran. Iranians know that the US government is not ready for talks. And they see absolutely no reason whatsoever to escalate their tensions with America. In such situation, it is only natural that Iran is attempting to tell the American people: we are not your enemy, we do not want any confrontation with you; it is your government who is driving the situation towards collision. Read Ahmadinejad's letter, and get this: SAME arguments are routinely advanced by a plentitude of international governments, agencies, analysts, media, etc, - exactly same. But when these arguments come from Iran, they are somehow impossible or ridiculous or evil.
posted by Katharsis(16) 18 months and 3 days ago
Aspiring Patriot
The troops should stay there. The US started this war because they suspected that Iraq had WMDs . They didn't find anything there, but after the invasion the country collapsed.
President Bush promised democracy and a lot of other things to make Iraq a better country. Now the US can not just leave Iraq to clean up the mess on its own.
posted by Peter(350) 17 months and 16 days ago
Aspiring Patriot
Americans can't just pass the buck. We royally screwed up a country that was already screwed up. I think we have a moral responsibility to at least leave it in the same shape it was in when we got there.
posted by corinthians(250) 17 months and 9 days ago
Aspiring Patriot
Why should we listen to Ahmadinejad regarding our foreign policy? We should not even think that any outsider should play politics in this matter.
posted by teammate(550) 15 months and 14 days ago
Aspiring Patriot
In response to Peter:We would have to be out of our minds to take any advice from him. But, wait, Hillary atkes his considerations seriously and cannot wait to if she takes over the Presidency.
posted by Black Widow(270) 15 months and 14 days ago
City Councilman

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