Comments on: WaPo Editorial On Iraq http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/10/14/wapo-editorial-on-iraq/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:28:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bill Franklin http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/10/14/wapo-editorial-on-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-69558 Bill Franklin Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:05:11 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/10/14/wapo-editorial-on-iraq/#comment-69558 What a shortsighted view that this is positive given the methods being used - Petraeus is arming tribal mobs and putting up partitions to divide Baghdad into secular enclaves. While this certainly does quell violence against our soldiers and other Iraqis in the short term, does this work towards the pipe dream of a "free and democratic" Iraq? Or was that just backup excuse once the WMD lie was exposed? Is a divided Iraq, with rival ethnic factions fighting over oil revenue and territory, really worth all the US lives lost and the 500+ billion of borrowed foreign money? What a shortsighted view that this is positive given the methods being used – Petraeus is arming tribal mobs and putting up partitions to divide Baghdad into secular enclaves. While this certainly does quell violence against our soldiers and other Iraqis in the short term, does this work towards the pipe dream of a “free and democratic” Iraq? Or was that just backup excuse once the WMD lie was exposed?

Is a divided Iraq, with rival ethnic factions fighting over oil revenue and territory, really worth all the US lives lost and the 500+ billion of borrowed foreign money?

]]> By: Sissy Willis http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/10/14/wapo-editorial-on-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-69428 Sissy Willis Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:23:39 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/10/14/wapo-editorial-on-iraq/#comment-69428 There you go again, trying to confuse them with the facts. There you go again, trying to confuse them with the facts.

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