I believe when you get attacked and somebody declares war on you, you fight back. And that's what we're doing.

Read that and then read it again. Iraq didn't attack us and they didn't declare war on us. Is anyone surprised (other than the White House which expected flowers and shit) that the Iraqis are trying to toss us back out?

George Bush and his coterie of cronies have done damage to our national security and our reputation in the world that, if we're lucky, might be repaired sometime around the year 2050. How bad is it? Reporters Without Borders has the United States squarely behind such luminary countries as Serbia, Bulgaria and Bolivia in their press freedom index. But hey, at least we're still ahead of Kuwait, Suadi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates... Oh, wait, those are our allies in the Middle East. We're dead last in the western world.

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