I agree with you but your picture is too pretty:

This shows a fascist.

An aircraft carrier in the Pacific, about an hour from San Diego, California. You could row that far. A couple of jets on deck as props, lots of giddy sailors. Here comes an airplane! It lands in the accustomed manner. Out springs the Boy Prince, the Dauphin of D.C., the VIP of the GOP, George W. Bush in full military flight suit, with his ejector harness giving him the worst moose knuckle in presidential history. A bit of video for the election commercials just in case the Democrats don't all curl up and die on their own, what's the harm in that? I wish it was that simple. But what we really saw in that moment was a coup d'etat. The president isn't supposed to wear a uniform. He's a civilian. Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt strapped on a pistol now and then and we've had generals who made president before. That Kennedy fellow was a war hero, too, and Bush Senior, the one who got elected, did his bit in the Pacific while Grampy Prescott was supporting the Nazis in Europe. But when they were president none of these men put on military uniforms. They understood that there are three sacred lines with regard to American democracy that can never be crossed: the line between privilege and power, the line between Church and State, and the line between civilian and military leadership. Cross any of them, and you're at fascism's doorstep. Cross two, you're on the threshold with your hand on the doorknob.

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I think that the number of deaths in Iraq is amazingly low. For instance in our own Civil War, many battles had 30 to 35,000 deaths in one da! What they don't tell you is that not all deaths in Iraq are caused by battle. Some are due to accidents. As far as succeeding in Iraq...this is not a typical war where you have two or more countries with standing armies fighting each other. There is no one commander who would accept an offer of peace.
It really depends upon the Iraqi people to stand together as one and fight the terrorists. They would have to have their own armed forces and a clear cut governmnet that has the interest of the people at heart. I don't see that happening any time soon. The Iraqi people are still very much tribal-minded with each having their own clans with their own clan leaders. The conceptof a strong central government, in their mind, is what Sadam Hussein had. That was not a good experience for them and I believe they are not very keen at the idea of a strong central government. When they had the opportunity to vote, almost 80 percent of them showed up. The Iraqis have had time to form their government but there is just too much in -fighting. They can't seem to agree on anything. To top it all off, the Shite and Sunni leaders hate each other and want nothing to do with a representative government because one group is larger than the other and the smaller group is doing what they can to undermine the American plan to democratize Iraq. I believe as soon as we leave their country, it will turn into chaos, the fundamentalists will take over and we'll have the same mess to deal with all over again in a few years. What you have to remember is that those who are fighting in Iraq volunteerd to go there. It isn't like it was in Viet Nam where people were drafted into the army and had no choice.