[Mishmash] Report: American Troops should stay in Iraq:Churchill's Grandson

[Richard Barth]

Susan,

I don't disagree with what you say.  My complaint 
is that individuals are telling us to stay there who aren't there themselves.

As to Afghanistan, remember Afghanistan is not 
Iraq.  The U.S. entered Afghanistan because it 
was playing host to the perpetrators of the 9/11 
massacre, Usama and Co.  There were few people, 
including many Muslims I suspect, who disagree 
with what we did there.  Iraq is another 
matter.  If we had spent as much time and effort 
in tracking down Al Quaida as we have spent in 
trying to make a democracy out of Iraq, we 
probably would have caught UBL and his major co-conspirators early on.

Dick

At 03:52 PM 5/15/2007, you wrote:
> >------- Original Message ------- >From    : 
> Richard 
> Barth[mailto:w3hwn at comcast.net] >Sent    : 
> 5/15/2007 11:26:38 AM >To      : 
> mishmash at mishmash.net >Cc      : >Subject : RE: 
> Re: [Mishmash] Report: American Troops should 
> stay in Iraq:Churchill's Grandson > > I'm sure 
> the American troops in Iraq would appreciate 
> additional help >from those Canadians who think 
> it's important that we stay there while they stay home and >make speeches.


>For openers, this is not a Canadian war or a 
>NATO war or a U.N. war going on in Iraq, it is a 
>U.S. instigated war begun contrary to a U.N. 
>Resolution and without the sanction of the 
>United Nations. Secondly, our troops (and the 
>troops of several other countries) are in 
>Afghanistan (also a conflict continued by the 
>U.S. after Russia pulled out) as part of NATO. 
>(http://www.nato.int/issues/afghanistan/index.html) 
>The Americans were there blowing that country to 
>kingdom come - and then they set their sights on 
>Iraq and suddenly wern’t there to any 
>appreciable degree and now NATO is stuck with 
>trying to clean up that particular mess.  Our 
>troops are there on the front line, killing and 
>being killed - though we don't have a fraction 
>of the casualties the U.S. has had in Iraq.  I 
>don't think this is commonly known or reported 
>in the U.S. because a friend in California was 
>amazed to learn this some months ago when I 
>mentioned it. We do not have the military 
>strength in numbers and equipment that the U.S. 
>has so can't be in Afghanistan and Iraq at the 
>same time.  Plus there would probably be a civil 
>uprising here in Canada if it happened - the 
>country is divided over our role Afghanistan as 
>it is. The first Canadian female member of the 
>military ever to be killed in action belonged to 
>my church so I see on a regular basis what war 
>does to families.  Her family is crushed so just 
>because we don't have the same number of 
>casualties does not mean the deaths of these 
>young people go unnoticed. Hope this clears up 
>some confusion. Susan 
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Richard Barth *** W3HWN(at)ARRL.NET *** Silver Spring, MD