On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:22:05 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

wrote:

... Comparatively, no
one really gives a **** about Iraq. Oh, sure, some folks like to get
all worked up and protest, use it to weasel into office (or weasel
another out), or use it as a sad attempt to relive the "hippie" days
they missed out on or can't really remember, but at the end of the day,
most folks, from the US blue-collar factory worker to the wealthiest
Arab to the migrant worker from the south-of-the-US-Mexico border to the
Asian tycoon, and from Beirut to Beijing to Bogota to Boston, the vast
majority simply don't care, because it doesn't affect them, personally,
very much at all. ...

The friends and relatives of the 3,000 dead American servicemen
care, and the 21,000 horribly mangled and their friends and
relatives care.

I've no doubt they care a great deal, but that number of people, when
compared to the number of people who could potentially care, will appear
very small indeed. I didn't address the comparative few who did care,
only the comparatively very large number who didn't, don't, and never
will. For example: on many, if not most or all, of the
Spanish-language news broadcasts (even those that originate in the US),
Iraq continues to be way down the list of "major news."

Not to mention over half a million dead Iraqis who are beyond caring.

Um, and that has to do with the number of people who care or don't care
how? IAC, why are you so sure that it is "half a million dead Iraqis?"

And the red states have given much more than their fair share of
American cannon fodder to the rat-******* neocons who lied us
into this quagmire.

And yet another illustration of the several reasons that there is a good
chance the Dems are yet again going to snatch defeat from the jaws of
victory...wild accusations that reek of hypocrisy. The general
population may not _really_ care about Iraq as a major issue to them,
but they can sense when they are being so blatantly and hypocritically
BS'ed. No one really "lied 'us' into this quagmire," giving the word
"lied" the everyday meaning. About the only way anyone "lied" about
anything was to themselves, and Dems were and are just as guilty as
Republicans. If your reference is to the oft-bleated "There were no
WMDs!" buzzword BS, it's just that - BS. True enough, he didn't have
sophisticated ICBMs with nuclear warheads or even tacnukes, but he
absolutely did have weapons and capabilities that would produce _mass_
destruction, and a most of it was much more practically dangerous than
some ****ant third-world nukes.

The problem isn't that there has been a war, the problem is largely that
there hasn't been one.

HTH,
R