*HarryPotHead* indeed!?
Was that supposed to make it snd cool 4 the kiddies?

I 4 1 do not approve of such elaborate concoctions &
"suckey f_ckey" between the *winza's* & the media.

1 wld hope that Iraq doesn't become reminiscent of earlier drug&testosterone fuelled rampages on the "RoofTops." (HaHaHa)
I'm sure certain parties wld not approve.

But then of course, the *ConspiracyTheorists* will tell U that 1 factor of significance contributing to *charlie's* depression was that *Di* was without her customary V.I.P. "S.atellite S.ecurity."

1 wld also assume that the same mistake won't b made with the young "snorter" *harry*

...Adam...

Wobbles and Saintfletcher

Thanks guys.

Pete

The Iraq government should in place to provide their own security bby year end.

In regard to infrastructure we need to foot the bill for all the rapair work.

And we need to apologise.

There are three main Iraqi communities, none of whom has a divine right to govern the others and none of whom will be given the right to govern the others. So let them govern themselves and tell the Turks where to stick their veto.

Divide the oil revenue on a percapita basis until the other issues are resolved. Withhold a significant portion of it to be distributed only in regions that deliver stable and just governance to it's people. We need to make it clear to ordinary Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis that failing to inform on car bombers has a high monetary cost.

If we disperse the governance then the population of Bagdad can be dispersed as well to their respective regions. It was essentially a Baathist creation, after all.

Hmmm I quote from the header article;
my opposition to the war

It started with a war, but it is not a war now.
The insurgents are civilians commiting criminal acts of multiple
murder. Their major targets are civilians.

The problem is they are arabs and this is the way they think and act.
It may well be that there is no solution. It is similar to the
Palestinian Israeli conflict.
Leaving it to them to solve it ? they have been fighting about this
dispute for more than a thousand years.
Why is it that people cannot accept that there are problems that do
not have a solution ?

The opening bell to both current wars was 9/11, with the fundamentalist purpose to destabilise the U.S. economy. Here in the U.S., we face daily bombardment by political boffins who fancy themselves experts on the subject. They claim the worst thing we can do is give in, lest the "terrorists will win."

But if we take a step back, it's obvious that it is the war itself that is destabilising the economies of both the U.S. and Australia, as well as other European countries. We spend about $10 billion a month in Iraq and Afganistan to fight an enemy that is spending perhaps well less than $10 million a month, maybe even less than $1 million per month. The longer this lopsided spending ratio is allowed to continue, the more destabilised our economies become.

Australia needs state-of-the-art desalination. The U.S. needs an update to its decaying transportation system. We both need an energy and transportation system that are non-combustion based. We need industrial capacity to hold our own against China. None of these things happen as the wars suck down every free kopek. Our 'enemy' is winning the war, because we are losing infrstructure and industrial capacity.

I would say NO, the Iraq was is less like Vietnam, and more like Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. SDI fairly bankrupted the U.S.S.R. because they played by the old Cold War rules of matching the U.S. tit for tat. But while the U.S. spent mostly theoretical money on a plan that never came close to operational, U.S.S.R. spent real money that they did not have on space weapons that were not technically feasible. SDI bankrupted the U.S.S.R., and as such, it was a successful ECONOMIC weapon of the U.S..

That same thing is happening in Iraq and (to a lesser degree) in Afganistan, except this time we're losing. China doesn't see Islamic fundamentalism as a threat, and as such, they seem to be emerging as the winners of these wars, able to build their infrastructure, while the U.S. and Australia begin to rust.