What is our exit strategy?

Not from Iraq, but from the many U.S. cities with higher death tolls.  Why vacation in our nation's capital when the streets of Baghdad are less violent?  As long as Iraq is safer than Baltimore, can we really call it a quagmire? 

Comments

[Independent Thinker]

> As long as Iraq is safer than Baltimore, can we really call it a quagmire?

Yes, we can really call Baltimore a quagmire.

[luther blissett]

I was just coming from an I.E.D. attack in Sioux City, Iowa-and just had to touch base.
I think the pent up tension in Iraq is just whining.
We did liberate them-what are they complaining about ?
They will soon be able to share in the vast treasures of capitialism and can have their own Wal -Marts, Kfc's and some hundred's of varieties of booze, cars,
investments, porno, cereals, drugs, reality shows,
toothbrushes, toilet tissures and guns.
So if a couple of them a day are blown to bits why make a scene about it and spoil the fun for the rest ?

[Gullyborg]

Considering that we know of at least 300,000 who were tortured, killed, and put into mass graves by the previous administration, I'd say, even on a bad day, Baghdad is a better place today than when we found it.

[luther blissett]

300,000-could you show some independently verified proof-forensic studies or reports from eyewitnesses to this unearthing of these bodies.
I have seen only 236 verified cases of torture trauma execution forensic files linked to the past Iraqi military and security forces.
I am sure you are awre that from 1980-2006
more than 1 million Iraqi soldiers died in wars.
The common practice in a Moslem country is to bury these soldiers in mass graves.
I am afraid I would need direct affadavits of death records with a definitively researched analyses of the cause of the 300,000 you mention.
Maybe you should try to apply the same methods that the United Nations organizations used to verify the 700,000 chidren who died during the sanctions period, to aid your quest for truth.

As for Baghdad being a better place-I would certainly go along with the British poll that asked citizens of that ancient city, if they were better off now than before the invasion- 85 % said. NO.

[Gullyborg]

I don't have any verification of the moon landings. I guess they didn't happen, either.

[luther blissett]

I saw the moon landings-and it was verified by numerous scientists in hundred's of documents.
The point is-neo-cons won't accept that
Bush is a LUNAR-TIC and the Empire he leads is responsible for killing more in one year than Saddam-"our good friend" and recepient of chemical biological, and nuclear material-killed in his regime.

if you are tired of the hate mongering and false
patriotism of the right:
Check out my blog:sevenpointman
-for an exit strategy with honor-from a war,
started with lies, propped up with lies, that will
end in ignominy for the elites of the Empire-
and more death and maiming for our poor,beloved warriors.

[Gullyborg]

If you honestly believe Bush has killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein, there is no hope for you. As long as you are blogging, I'm buying stock in Reynolds Wrap and Kool Aid.