Thursday, July 19, 2007

If you are ever discussing Iraq with someone, and they say something about how Al Queda is in Pakistan not Iraq, remind them of two things. One, there are plenty of Al Queda agents in Iraq that keep in touch with the main group, a fact which is backed up by the latest National Intelligence Estimate, NIE. And two... Not a single senator or columnist or protester who brought up this fact about Pakistan is actually talking about redeploying the troops in Iraq to Pakistan, so it's a disingenuous, misleading, non-sequitor. Then ask them what they would do if we did pull out, hundreds of thousands of innocents get slaughtered (yes, many more will die if we pull out than died while we were there, power struggles with terrorist groups and no real military to speak of tend to do that, just look at "Palestine" today), and then the Al Queada in Iraq people launch an attack on the US that kills a couple of thousand people? Because that's a very likely scenario. Ask them if they will feel any guilt over those deaths, or will they just shift the blame to Bush?

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