Lots of war news in the last day. First, the Iraqi reconciliation plan not only calls for US troop withdrawl, yeah! But it also calls for amnesty for anyone who has killed US soldiers. Huh? Wha? Since you know our government was involved in drafting this document, what does it say about how our government feels about the sacrifices of our soldiers? I guess they are, as Tony Snow says, just numbers.
In other news they let twelve Saudis out of Guantanamo, I guess not everything there is a bloodthirsty terrorist who deserves to be tortured.
On the WMDs issue, looks like things are getting worse for the Republicans. Now the DOD is walking away from the report saying that the weapons had been known about for years and were not the weapons we had been looking for.
All that being said I think we have a serious problem wih how we are debating the issue of Iraq. We are being forced into two camps, either 'stay and die' or 'cut and run', where actually neither side is saying either of those things, or listening to each other. We need to have a real debate about the war, talk honestly about what is going on, what we are trying to achieve, and what the best way to get there is.
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