Here’s a take on the war I don’t agree with, but I found to be one of the more erudite and better expressed opinions I’ve read. It’s from a buddy of mine and fellow writer, Dean Clarke, whose opinions I – generally – listen to if nothing else! He was responding to “From The Field – Iraq” posted below.
“Thanks. That was fascinating. I honestly don’t trust the media either. My problem is not that I don’t support our soldiers. Rather, I totally distrust the reason why we are fighting there at all. I am aware of the plan to reshape the Middle East (starting in Iraq) that was formulated more than 20 years ago by Rumsfeld, Diamond, Wolfowitz, Cheney and several others. This is about control of oil and nothing more. Just like Viet Nam, the reasoning behind the conflict was based in a lie, a hidden agenda. I hate our men being killed for some idiot’s power grab. If we were REALLY trying to knock out terrorism, we would have concentrated all of our manpower on both sides of the Pakistan/Afghanistan border and walked towards the middle until we found bin Laden and killed him. We wouldn’t be in Iraq at all.
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