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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:57:31 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[give me a break]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=give-me-break-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=give-me-break-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:57:31 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terryparker</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=give-me-break-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[look up the dui deaths since 9-11, then tell me what the &amp;quot;beautiful people&amp;quot; in hollywood need to be protesting.no draft all volunteer service!or beer? &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Begin to end]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Begin-to-end</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Begin-to-end</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:57:27 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TTim</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Begin-to-end</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We love our troups. Many of us just want them out of harm. My thinking is withdrawl is the best first step to end the Bush war. The region lives in a explosive and bullet filled madness our troups are in the middle of. The people there live in a historic murder and revenge cycle such everything is a reason to kill, even an effort to reason with them. Anything said will be taken as insult stiring a bloody response thus holding us in careful restraint. No one comes back from the dead to state wich religious belief of the afterlife is correct or if there is one. Lets pull our troups and ourselves out of this madness, stay out and above it. They will continue to suffer until they wise up and so will we. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[pigs blood weapon!]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=pigs-blood-weapon</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=pigs-blood-weapon</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:57:22 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vancemillett</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=pigs-blood-weapon</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Moslems who are defiled by pigs blood may not enter their heaven! Dip our troops amo in it! They will be afraid to be shot by us and not go to heaven &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[2 ways you can go to your grave; a 38 special or a razor blade.]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=2-ways-you-can-go-to-your-grave-38-special--razor-blade</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=2-ways-you-can-go-to-your-grave-38-special--razor-blade</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:57:20 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackolantyrn356</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=2-ways-you-can-go-to-your-grave-38-special--razor-blade</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are 2 ways to end the war.  The 1st is to confront the enemy, who believes it is an honor to die and a joy to kill ones self in the destruction of others, in the time honored way. Slaughter everything in your army's path until they sue for peace on their knees with loud begging and pleading. Doing anything else merely delays a little while your own defeat. This is not my crazy sick idea, but one used by such as Grant, Sherman, Mao, Pompey, Nelson, Farragut, Rommel, Patton (to a lesser extent) and a number of others. Forgive me. I wish it were some other way. The only other way to end the war is to &amp;quot;assume the position&amp;quot; for the enemy to come through our unlocked, open doors and depend on their &amp;quot;tender mercies&amp;quot; that we will not be beheaded and they will allow us to &amp;quot;kiss their asses&amp;quot; before they do behead us.  Trust me this crew has no &amp;quot;tender mercies&amp;quot;. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[War doesn't end by one side walking away or staying out]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=War-doesnt-end-by-one-side-walking-away-staying-out-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=War-doesnt-end-by-one-side-walking-away-staying-out-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:57:18 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>firejack007</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=War-doesnt-end-by-one-side-walking-away-staying-out-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ask the British if staying home kept Hitler away or ended WWII. Ask the Cambodians if us walking away saved millions. Ask a grandparent if playing by the rules made us stronger or weaker in the eyes of Japan. Ask a New Yorker if leaving Osama bin Laden alone made New York safer. The answer to How to end this war is what we did in 1918, 1945, and 1991. Massive eveloping power to the finish. Yet here we are, after almost a hundred years of history, and we still have people think that staying home keeps us safe. You can sure bet that the terrorists from all the different Arab countries aren't going to quit. They are sharpening their knives with ideas of cutting our heads off. All the things that liberals hate, they want to do. They want to abuse women and keep them in a lower status, they want to force you to worship their religion, they want to enforce their ways of justice. So why aren't liberals fighting their right wing religious agenda? Why aren't liberals and the left fighting their justice system and women rights? Two reasons. One, because it's George Bush in the White House and two because the left and liberals talk a good talk but when it comes to action they are no where to be found. Don't worry though. There are marines, soldiers, sailors, or airmen of many races, creeds, nationalities, and colors that is doing it for you. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Idea to end the war in Iraq]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Idea-to-end-war-in-Iraq-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Idea-to-end-war-in-Iraq-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:57:12 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sea4wolf</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Idea-to-end-war-in-Iraq-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How about we just give the southern half of Iraq to Iran in exchange for Iran to give up it's nuclear program? Maybe we could get Iran to agree to leave Israel alone too as part of the deal. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Take control of the border and the Iraqi's can take care of themselves]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Take-control--border--Iraqis-can-take-care-themselves</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Take-control--border--Iraqis-can-take-care-themselves</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:57:07 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iwrote1</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Take-control--border--Iraqis-can-take-care-themselves</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don't like everything about George W. Bush, but given the choice between him or just about any Demonicrat, the choice is an easy one, I'll take the Cowboy over the Indian Givers any day. One of the biggest problems I have with George is his failure to control borders. If he would take control of the border between Mexico and the US we might actually stop the illegal immigrant migration. And if he would take control of the borders in Iraq, he might actually stop the flow of Iranian and Syrian terrorists as well as their weapons into Iraq. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Moron's War for Oil]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Morons-War-Oil</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Morons-War-Oil</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:15:07 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>camus60</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Morons-War-Oil</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I felt in Vietnam in 1966, when another moron from texas sent 58000 to their deaths for nothing that the easiest way to extricate ourselves from THAT illegal war was to use boats, seeing as man cant walk on water.  I would suggest to the Current Moron (also from texas..hmm) in the white house, in a solution as simple as his mind, that, as boats can't float on sand, we use dune buggies to extricate ourselves from THIS illegal war, that he stop using American Armed Forces for his own mercenary force to acquire, of course, OIL.... &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[how to end the war]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=how-to-end-war-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=how-to-end-war-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:14:47 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rogerzima</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=how-to-end-war-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[civil disobedience, that is why the civil rights movement was successful.  It's a duty!!! &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is all war bad???]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Is-all-war-bad</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Is-all-war-bad</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:14:41 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smyniguez</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Is-all-war-bad</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I really wish that everyone who cared enough to write an response on how we can &amp;quot;end the war&amp;quot; also cared enough to understand the details of this war and history in general.  Islamic fanatics have made hatred a way of life and want nothing but to kill all non-islamic followers.  There can be no compromise with that!  When targeting and killing innocent people is compared to accidental killing of innocent people, I really feel that we (as a society) have completely missed the point. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The war on terror is a modern day Hydra and cannot be won with the current US strategy.]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=war-on-terror-is-modern-day-Hydra-cannot-be-won-with-current-US-strategy</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=war-on-terror-is-modern-day-Hydra-cannot-be-won-with-current-US-strategy</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:03:03 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>imabbb</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=war-on-terror-is-modern-day-Hydra-cannot-be-won-with-current-US-strategy</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The so-called &amp;quot;war on terror&amp;quot; cannot be won by military force, at least not the way the US is doing it now. The mythological Hydra grew two new heads when one was cut off and it is the same in this insane war. For every terrorist the US military kills, new terrorists (brothers, sons...) are created. The only sane tactic is to immediately withdraw US troops and bring them home to secure our borders. If killing must be done, Rangers, Seals and other special forces could be deployed to kill high-ranking terrorist leaders with surgical precision, avoiding widespread violence and minimizing the &amp;quot;Hydra&amp;quot; effect. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to end this war-Middle East]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=How-to-end-this-warMiddle-East</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=How-to-end-this-warMiddle-East</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:02:25 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>franco</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=How-to-end-this-warMiddle-East</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Solutions on specific measures of military involvement in Iraq or diplomatic discourse are at best fragmentary and eventually lead to failure. If we want to stop creating failed states in the Middle East, we must change the course of our foreign policy from talking loudly and carrying a big stick to multi-national discourse and United Nations action. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to End this War]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=How-to-End-this-War-4</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=How-to-End-this-War-4</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:02:18 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillGilliam</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=How-to-End-this-War-4</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1.  Withdraw US forces over the next 12 mos to the Kurdish held areas in NE Iraq, and to the area of Iraq West of the Euphrates.2.  Support the Kurds in creating their own Nation/State.3.  Help Sunni's create an agrarian economy in the areas W of Euphrates.4.  Within 5 years staged withdrawal will be possible.  Turkey can support the Kurds for a piece of their oil revenues.  Jordan &amp;amp; Saudi can support the area W of the Euphrates to create a Sunni &amp;quot;buffer&amp;quot; zone.5.  Let the bloddy Shai have the middle part of Iraq. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The conflict can be solved]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=conflict-can-be-solved</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=conflict-can-be-solved</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:02:08 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>haroldrose</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=conflict-can-be-solved</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A peaseful way of ending the conflict, but it will take a lot of courage to admit that the United States did some wrong. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[mea culpa?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=mea-culpa-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=mea-culpa-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:33:16 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mnashp</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=mea-culpa-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[no answers, only questions... Possibly admitting our error and asking the world to help us deal with the mess? Invite anyone who wants to be included to the table to discuss options and negotiate solutions? Impeach Bush and his mentors as a symbolic statement to the world that we are ready to listen? Stop recognizing bullies as powerful? (Give them detention when they start name-calling and pushing people around...) Develop a virtual arena for these kinds of pissing contests, so that everyone can have fun and go home in one piece? Recognize the insanity of war as a diagnosable pathology, and politely avert our gaze when the afflicted begin chest-thumping and urinating on corner-posts? Stop raising our boys to be boys? Check our arrogant patriotism at the door? Encourage the dissemination of the truth so that people don't sound so ignorant when they try to explain why we are fighting? Elect people on the basis of their intelligence rather than celebrity appeal? There are so many things we haven't tried, and war is, forgive the pun, a perfect example of overkill. Can't we give something else a shot? I mean, if the fist has fallen once, it has fallen ten-thousand times, and I see as our spoils a surfeit of fists, and no surplus of peace, not even a glimmer.It is not working, guys. never has, never will. We have got to re-tool our thinking about our objectives and what means are appropriate to achieve them. We are becoming sophisticated enough in our awareness to understand the dangers of ignoring perceptual filters, threat-based reactiveness and system-dynamics, which will always oppose change and self-reinforce. We have the technology, we have the ability to make subtle distinctions, and we have the ability to gather in cyberspace for a great discussion. Come on, people: we can do this! &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[H.R. 508 to End the War]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=HR-508-to-End-War-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=HR-508-to-End-War-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:33:13 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tylert</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=HR-508-to-End-War-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A bill has been submitted to the House to call for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.  At the time of writing the bill has 24 co-sponsers.  For more information visit http://www.desperatelyobvious.com/ &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Iraq Study Group Analysis]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Iraq-Study-Group-Analysis-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Iraq-Study-Group-Analysis-1</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:33:08 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>galoco_lee</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Iraq-Study-Group-Analysis-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Of the nearly 2,400 US soldiers whom have died in Iraq &amp;amp; Afghanistan as the result of hostile activities*, all but 139 have died since President Bush said &amp;quot;Mission Accomplished&amp;quot;. This loss of members of our &amp;quot;volunteer&amp;quot; armed services occurred over a three and a half year period of conflict and that tragic loss can not be in vain. All are to be honored for their sacrifice; as are their families due the gratitude of this nation. But this reality must be viewed in perspective. During the battle of Fredericksburg during America's Civil War, the Union Army of the Potomac lost 3,000 men in one hour in the fight that would lead to the emancipation of the slaves. During the six (6) week Battle of Normandy that led to the liberation of France, there were 37,000 dead amongst the ground forces and a further 16,714 deaths amongst the air forces of the Allies. In the six (6) week Battle of the Bulge, Hitler's last gasp 19,000 American soldiers died.Today, war cemeteries in France hold the remains of 9,386 American servicemen from the greatest generation whom died in a war that lasted just under four (4) years.And based on 2006 statistics of 800 soldiers killed, we would have to remain in Iraq for the next 50 years to equal the number of deaths in the U.S. as the result of automobile accidents in just one year. In my home state of Georgia there are 1700 auto fatalities annually.  Statistically one might make the misguided assumption that a young soldier in Iraq is 50 times safer by being in the war zone than driving the streets in America!!The history of the world is a history of civilization clashes and cultural clashes; between forces of relative civility and barbarians clamoring at the gates. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what societies should be like and the most determined always win. The Iraq war is but another battle in this never ending war.Those willing to be the most ruthless always win. This is the first major war of the 21st century and it is between the Western Judeo Christian civilization and the Wahhabi branch of Islam. It will last until the Jihadist form of Islam fades away or gives up it's ambition for regional and global dominance or until the Western Civilization gives in to the Jihadists.For the Islamic jihadist world, America's war with Iraq is but a phase in the divine recurrence of Islam's historic struggle against the Mongol invasion in the thirteen century - a series of events that lead to the unprecedented spread or Islamic power. In 1258 Genghis Khan's grandson destroyed Baghdad and his westward advance was blocked by a much inferior Islamic army that achieved victory through a series of ambushes employing irregular warfare. The subsequent decades of fighting led to the emergence of the &amp;quot;jihadist ideology&amp;quot; that is currently being exported by Iran and it is the basis of Bin Laden's war on America. After U.S. forces entered Baghdad the Islamic fundamentalist world lamented the fall of the city as if it were a revisiting of Khan's occupation in the thirteenth centuryNote: * While there have been almost 3,000 U.S. soldiers whom have died since the start of the Iraq war in March 2002 according to AP reports. The military acknowledges that within this statistic 2,400 deaths are the result of hostile activitiesAs for the conflict between the Shiite's and the Sunni's that conflict has been going on since 600 AD; the result of a chiasm between factions of the Muslin faith. Sunnis represent 85-90% of Muslims world-wide. Unlike Sunni, the Shiites are inclined to revere clerics as spiritual guides. The Shi'as followed a blood lineage of the prophet Mohammed.  Mohammed only had a daughter, Fatima, whom married his adopted son Ali (Shiite means the &amp;quot;party of Ali&amp;quot;). Mohammed's youngest grandson, Husayn was murdered by Sunni's in 680AD. The Sunni's lineage tracks initially from Mohammed's companion Abu Bahr, who was selected as the Caliph or leader of the Muslim community by the faith's elders after Mohammed's death in 632 AD. Bahr was succeeded by the once rivals of Mohammed, the Umayyad family. In 661 AD, Muawiya Sofian, the governor of Syria who was from the Umayyad family was elected to the supreme post after the assassination of Mohammed's son Ali. Muawiya's son, Yazid was responsible for the massacre of a band of Shi'as in 680 AD, which included the grandson of Mohammed. This was the event that sealed the division between the Shiite's and the Sunni's and this conflict has continued for 1300 years!The anti-American guerrilla warfare began in the summer of 2003 and it was a coordinated effort between Osama bin*Laden's Islamic forces, Saddam's Baathist forces, elements of Saudi Arabia's Sunnis, Iranian Shiite's, Egypt, Pakistan as well as the key sponsoring states - Syria and Iran. Each entity welcomed the commitment of the other to drive the &amp;quot;infidels&amp;quot; from the Muslim land of Iraq as occurred in the 13th century and to reject the &amp;quot;liberation&amp;quot;.IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORTA Report that Makes Few Constructive Proposals; Re-enforces most of President Bushes Positions and Worst of allAdvocates Cooperation with Sponsors of Terrorism:              Iran &amp;amp; SyriaHistory being so noted, in response to the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study group's recommendations, my initial reaction was the pathetic brevity of the report. Otherwise, what was a real shock to me is the inconceivable thought that this distinguished group made such an ill conceived recommended to negotiate with Syria and Iran. Both these countries have been intent on destabilizing Iraq and making it ungovernable since day one. On the basis of pure threat analysis in the fall of 2002 the United States should have gone to war with Syria and Iran at the same time it invaded Iraq. This Report is fundamentally flawed. And the entire Iraq Study Group report loses all credibility by the third page (XV) of the opening &amp;quot;Executive Summary&amp;quot; stating that &amp;quot;if Syria and Iran were given the ability to influence events in Iraq that their interest would be in avoiding chaos in Iraq&amp;quot;. Nothing could be farther from the truth.This report continues by making light of the impact that the Iranian Islamic fundamentalist have in Iraq by utilizing diluted phrases such as Iran &amp;quot;has the most leverage&amp;quot; in Iraq or &amp;quot;reports (indicate)&amp;quot; that Iran supplies IED's. This Iraqi Report makes additional statements that trivialize reality by indication that the only infiltrations across the &amp;quot;porous&amp;quot; Iraqi border are Iranians on pilgrimages to Shia holy sites&amp;quot;. (Here is a press release of note; Iraqi security forces intercepted six donkeys carrying 53 anti-tank mines and an anti-tank rocket near the Iranian border in Iraq.)Note: * &amp;quot;bin&amp;quot; and &amp;quot; Ibn&amp;quot; mean &amp;quot;son of&amp;quot;It is grossly apparent that although the panel consists of two previous Secretaries of State and one previous Secretary of Defense, it was composed of individuals whom know next to nothing about either the military or the Middle East. The American public has this misguided preference for celebrity over authority. The real question  about this group that voters should be asking themselves is why did Congress vacate it's responsibility to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch by allowing a private panel of has-beens to do it's job. Winston Churchill stated years ago that &amp;quot;The best argument against a Democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter&amp;quot;.Americans are simply not being provided with the truth of the situation in Iraq by it's our politicians and the U.S. media and this report simply adds to this mis-information.  I am afraid this ignorance will result in the return of my grand children in uniform to the Middle East, only it will be a nuclear Middle East the next time.Modern military strategy still espouses in the fundamental strategies promoted by Sun Tzu, the Chinese general whom died in 496B.C. His &amp;quot;Act of War&amp;quot; emphasis the need to know your enemy and your capabilities to win. Sun Tzu stated the &amp;quot;if you know yourself and don't know your enemy that for every victory you will also suffer defeat&amp;quot;. A perfect example of American Political ignorance about Iraq is incoming speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi's selection of Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, for the position of the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. During his first interview with the National Security Congressional Quarterly magazine his response to whether Al-Qaida was composed of Shiite or Sunni  Muslims, was &amp;quot;predominately - probably Shiites&amp;quot;. The opposite is of course true. Al-Qaida is composed of Sunni Muslims extremists who regard Shiites as heretics who deserve to be killed. While the pressing business of congress is to raise money for their re-elections while stuffing earmarks into their appropriations bill, is it too much to ask that members of the Intelligence Committee - especially the chairman - know the basics about the enemy who attacked us on 911 four (4) years ago? Congress is now in control by a party the so far has shown a lack of seriousness about the war. Many of its leading politicians have reverted to the pre-911 mindset. I am afraid the Americans simply do not have the stomach for a protracted war which we were unavoidably engaged. If we are truly asleep to this reality, I shutter to think what it will take to awaken us. It's unthinkable.Modern history illustrates time and time again that appeasement empowered regimes into more terror - not less. And while we are constantly inundated with the perception that the Israel-Palestine issue is the root cause of all the problems throughout the entire Middle East; that is simply not true. While the Baker-Hamilton report eventually recognizes that reality, that the growth of Iranian influence in the region is the paramount concern for all the Gulf States, the report fails to recognize that what is transpiring in the civil war in Iraq is within the Islamic religion between Inquisition and Reformists wings. The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, believe Islam is a radical form of Wahhabi Islam an anti-western sect originating within Sunni Islam (it is said that not every Muslim is a terrorists, but every terrorists is a Wahhabi). Wahhabi Islam believes that it should control the Middle East, finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel, purge the world of Zionists before going on to conquer the rest of the civilized world. If the Inquisition wins the Jihadis will control the OPEC oil, and with it the US, Europe and Asian economies. The techno-industrial countries will be at the mercy of OPEC, and not an OPEC dominated by the well-educated and Reformist wing consisting of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, UAB, etc. but by an OPEC dominated by radical jihadists like Al-Ouida, &amp;amp; the Iranian Mullahs. If the Reformation succeeds than a moderate Muslims religion will come to pass with respect and tolerance for other religions, living in peace with the rest of the world, moving out of the 13th century and into the 21st century, and this will allow the troubles in the middle East to fade away and then and only then will a moderate and prosperous Middle East emerge. The Iraqi Study Group's report is an affront to history, truth, logic and serves little purpose but to misguide the American public .What  terrorizes  the Islamic  regimes  in  the  Middle  East the most is  that  we  are  on  the side  of  those  they  fear  the  most - their  own  people.The truth is that Iran and Syria have been the root cause for the chaos in Iraq and their efforts pre-date Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). So allow me to elaborate on this report and some of the real players &amp;amp; issues in Iraqi if for no other reason than because I was there:First and foremost, let me start with the cleric Moqtada al-Sadar. He once resided in slums of Sadar city, the Shiite stronghold in Baghdad. I'm certain y'all remember the situation in Fallujah where the Marines had to return after American Security forces were hung from a bridge and their bodies were burned. Al-Sadar was the cleric held up there with his 5,000 man militia. In March of 2005, the Marines had Al-Sadar surrounded, wounded and after killing 2,000 of his soldiers the U.S. government succumbed to international pressure and  we allowed this SOB to slither out of Fallujah. I was very involved with this endeavor supplying our troops will their rations and water and I can assure you the outcome was a disappointment. Today Al-Sadar's militia is estimated to total have grown to 60,000 soldiers actively fighting and killing U.S. soldiers in Anbar province. Meanwhile Tehran is alleged to be spending $80 million per month to train, equip, pay and clothe Al-Sadar's dissident militia.Jan 2007; Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, &amp;quot;But I think it's very, very important that if Iranians are in Iraq paying people to be suicide bombers, to help the training and equipping them ... it's vital that we go after them too. Everybody knows the Iranians are playing in Iraq and they are trying to drive us out of Iraq so they can assert their age-old ambitions for influence in the Middle East. Moqtada is nothing more than what President Bush states - a &amp;quot;thug&amp;quot; in religious clothing. Why we allowed him &amp;amp; 3,000 of his militia escape was inexcusable. We have paid dearly since then to the tune of about nearly 2,400 of our own troops killed in action. I am convinced that had we eliminated Al-Sadar when we had him bottled up in a mosque in Fallugah the bulk of our problems in Iraq would have been over long ago and the newly elected government would have the situation well in hand. The only question that we should ask is why have we not surrounded Sadar City and as Zell Miller recommended &amp;quot;bomb the hell out of them&amp;quot;. Now it appears that we will have to send more troops back there to eliminate this menace. Moqtada Al-Sadar &amp;amp; the Iranian Mullahs were involved in the assassination of the direct descendant of Muhammad, Abdul Majid al-Khoi, because Khoi had convinced the Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sustani (the supreme religious authority at the Theological School) in the Shiite holy city Najaf  to issued a fatwa (religious order) urging all Shiites NOT to fight the Americans when U.S. troops first entered Iraq in March of 2003. The day following the assassination of Khoi the Shiite court in Najaf reversed Sistani's fatwa and fundamentally placed him under house arrest. Sustani was from Iran. He is of Persian decent and even talks with a Persian accent. He has been inept since 2003. Reading the Baker-Hamilton report one would believe that Sustani was of some relative importance today. The reports presents him first amongst all the players they present in their analysis and recommends the US communicate directly with him. How nieve?Bottom line, Moqtada Al-Sadar's power comes directly from Tehran from the Iranian Shiite supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khomeini (this is not the deceased Ayatollah Khomeini whom President Jimmy Carter allowed to return to Iran). Moqtada visited Iran as early as April 2003 (immediately after the fall of Saddam) to receive direct instructions from Khamenei relative to this cleric's intentions for the post-Saddam Iraq. Khamenei wants Moqtada al-Sadar to incite popular unrest to any form to U.S. (or U.K.) presence in Iraq so that eventual the government in Iraq will mirror the Iranian model, marrying politics and the Shiite form of the Muslim religion. America's attempt to bring about a fundamental political transformation in the Middle-East is a mortal threat to the Mullah's regime in Iran. Iran's national strategy is to make Iraq ungovernable, bogging our military down in Iraq and severely impeding America's ability to confront Iran in its quest for nuclear weapons which they declared to have made major strides towards their development on December 13, 2003. Moqtada al-Sadar was given a license to kill Americans.Legitimate governments do not have to resort to violence and repression to maintain control over their citizens. The Iranian mullahs have maintained control for the last 25 years by crushing any opposition, which places the mullahs on the top of the list by every international authority reporting on human rights violations. Torture, imprisonment without rights, arbitrary arrests, mock trials, suppression of the press, abuse of women through the Iranian Council of Guardians that routinely rejects candidates whom attempt to register to run for election for seats in  Parliament that in any way deviate from their way of thinking. Public hanging, flogging, public mutilation and amputations promote the mullah's reign of terror.The governments of Iran and Syria so feared the U. S. involvement in Iraq that they did everything within their power to stop the American attack of the Saddam regime before it happened. As American pressured the UN Security Council to address Saddam Hussein in 2002, Syria and Iran accelerated attempts at provocation with Israel. Iran supplied Hezbollah forces in Lebanon with a large number of long-range rockets controlled by Iranian crews. Syria completed a major military buildup in southern and eastern Lebanon in an effort to provoke Israel into a major attack on Syria to instigate a regional war. Syrian forces were mixed in with Hezbollah formations to ensure that any Israel attack would inevitably injure Syrians. Hamas launched a barrage of Qassam rockets from Palestine into southern Israel as well as sent many a suicide terrorist into Israel willing to kill themselves and other innocent civilians prior to the US launching operations in Iraq. But there was nothing Tehran could do to save Saddam's regime because Washington had issued stern warnings to Jerusalem not to do anything to provoke any local conflict and spoil Bush's war plans.As for Egypt; after the fall of Baghdad the chief of the Egyptian intelligence, Gen. Omar Suleiman met in July 2003 with Iran's counterpart, Ali Yunesi. Cairo considered its vital interests endangered by American success in Iraq and as a result Egyptian President Mubarak reached out to Tehran to undermine the occupation. Cairo was eager to make deals with the Islamists fundamentalists to cement the Mubarak dynasty because that is a far greater threat in the Middle East than the Israel-Palestinian issue. Egypt has funneled insurgents, weapons and money into the Palestine Gaza strip as well as into Iraq through Syria.GAZA CITY, Gaza (Dec. 14, 2006) -- A gunbattle broke out Thursday between Hamas militants and terminal guards loyal to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, just hours after Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya was blocked from entering Gaza. Israel ordered a border crossing between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt sealed off today, preventing the return to Palestinian territory of the Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya,  because he was allegedly carrying tens of millions of dollars in cash.In October, the Palestinian interior minister, Said Siam, took home $2 million in cash from Muslim countries when he returned to the Gaza Strip from a trip that included Syria and Iran. In June, the foreign minister, Mahmoud Zahar, returned with $20 million stuffed in suitcases. And in May, a prominent spokesman for the ruling Hamas faction, Sami Abu Zuhri, was caught trying to smuggle some $815,000 into Gaza from Egypt to circumvent the economic blockade. Palestinians may legally carry unlimited sums of money into Gaza as long as they declare it. The reality of Egypt's involvement is a far cry from the Baker-Hamilton report which falsely report that Egypt (pg 30) facilitated U.S. Military operations. Nothing is farther from the truth. In March of 2003 Mubarak called for an emergency meeting of the Arab League. The out come of the summit was that no Arab nation was to assist America. And when President Sezar announced that Turkey would not allow American troops access to Iraq, the 4th ID had to make an end run through the Suez canal. And contrary to the Iraq study groups statement, when President Bush requested Mubarak  to expedite our fleet through the Suez canal, Mubarak was non-committal and in fact Egyptians went out of their way to cause delays and problems. Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states are far more concerned about the rise of the mullah's in Iran than any Israeli-Palestinian issue. Self preservation of the existing regimes is a far greater concern. This is the crux of the issue in the Middle East according to Yossef Bodansky the director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare; the director of International Strategic Studies Assoc. and the editor of the Defense and Foreign Affairs group of publications. He has been a leading Middle East authority for the last ten years and well traveled through the Middle East. And while I reference his analysis, I do not see Mr. Bodansky as a consultant to the Iraqi study group.  The next, and the most recent player that you have seen on TV whom just visited with President Bush at the Capital in December 2006. He is Ayatollah Aziz Al-Hakim. He is a member of the Iraqi Shiite party, the United Iraqi Alliance, and a key figure in the new Iraqi government. He won 41% of the votes in the January 2005 elections and his organization now holds 128 of the 275 seats in the parliament. Many Shiite clerics were forced to flee Iraq during Saddam Hussein's secular reign. Most resettled in Iran as did Al-Hakim. When the Ayatollah came to power in Iran in 1979 he encouraged the establishment of the Shiite Council for the Islamic Revolution (SCIRI), providing military training and financing for it's Badr Brigade which has along with Al-Sadar's militia been the primary Shiite participants in the sectarian violence in Baghdad and An Bahr province as well as southern Iraq. Al-Hakim is the leader of SCIRI. Iran is simply trying to mask Al-Hakim as a moderate Shiite leader presented by the Iranian based SCIRI group as a more favorable option for America because he supposedly urges a political solution to the occupation of Iraq.Dec 18; WASHINGTON (CNN)- The two most prominent militias -- the Mehdi Army and the Badr Organization -- are armed wings of Shiite political parties whose support is crucial to the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. The Mehdi Army in particular &amp;quot;exerts significant influence in Baghdad and the southern provinces of Iraq and on the government of Iraq&amp;quot;. The Badr Organization is affiliated with the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. It's worth noting that among other offers Hakim has embraced, the offer of the French government which has promised Al-Hakim lavish assistance - including military, economic and political aid - for a role in the reconstruction of a Shiite-dominated Iraq. In April of 2003, the French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin and the Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi made a joint public statement confirming the France/Iran pact.   Al-Hakim has contributed to the Iranian campaign since June, 2003 when in his sermon in Najaf he declared that the political and administrative solution offered by the U.S. were un-Islamic. His primary interest appears to be the southern provinces he represents in Iraq. He is positioning himself in the event of a partitioning of Iraq into three segments which the Iraq Study group opposes but admits that this could eventually occur (page 39). The Kurds in the North have functionally accomplished their own partition but American troops are necessary to keep the Turks at bay. Turkey is just &amp;quot;chomping at the bit&amp;quot;to seize the oil fields in northern Iraq. If partitioning occurs Al-Hakim will control the Southern provinces of Iraq and swallow up the proceeds from those oil fields and control Iraq's oil terminals in the Persian Gulf.  Al-Hakim served as the President of the Interim Iraqi Governing Council during the post-Saddam period leading up to the January 2005 general elections. He is the Shiite cleric and only a heart beat away from the Iraqi presidency of Nouri Kamal al-Maliki.This apparent support for the Shiite's has become apparent recently because the new Iraqi president Nouri Kamal al-Maliki has cozied up to Al-Sadar to the point al-Maliki had U.S troops removed from check points they had established to bottle up Al-Sadar's Mahdi army and contain them within Sadar City. And more recently it appears that the Bush administration has initiated dialogue with Iran's poster child, Ayatollah Al-Hakim. In light of these developments, the minority Sunni's in Iraq had no alternative but to respond to this open political favoritism of the Shiite through its significant escalation of attacks on the Shiites even in their enclave, Sadar City. Iraqi officials said, money has been pouring into Iraq from oil-rich Saudi Arabia, a Sunni bastion, since the US-led invasion of Iraq toppled the Sunni-controlled regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Remember that Sunni's represent as much as 90 % of the world population of Muslims.This is so contrary to the Baker-Hamilton report that attempts to minimize the government of Saudi Arabia's knowledge of the financial support for the Sunnis. That analysis simply defies logic. As a matter of fact Saudi Arabia's immediate reaction to the release of the Iraqi Study Group's report was that the kingdom would provide unlimited financial support for the Sunni's if the U.S. vacated Iraq. This Iraqi report is simply grossly off target time and again.Oh by the way, there is one other l'il Sunni of interest that the report fails to mention at all. That is none other than Osama bin Laden. The Al-Qaeda leader's aim from the New York and Washington attack was to draw the U.S. Military machine into a war on an Islamic land where it is difficult to win by air force alone. No Arab country on it's own can stop the Americans and that means that if the Arabs could drop there differences and unite, together they could force America out of the Middle-East once and for all and be assured that Washington would not dare to take on any one of them in the future. The desire to have the various Arab entities function as a unified entity has yet to entirely materialize. Never assume that Islamic countries in the Middle East all move in unison because they are all Muslims. Iranians are Persians by nationality, not Arabs. Iranians speak Farsi, not Arabic. Nor do Iranian Shiites naturally identify with Iraqi Shiites. Tribe is the primary identifier, then nationality and religion comes in a distinct third. But to bring Iran &amp;amp; Syria into the negotiation process, as this report suggests, would play into the hands of the Jihadists. How can the study group be so oblivious to this reality?Time and again the Iraq Study Group's report makes reference to &amp;quot;insurgents&amp;quot; as if they existed in a vacuum. The report repeatedly fails to associate them to any known faction failing to define their backers both financial and political. That's not real life. And one has to guess what the Baker-Hamilton report means by Recommendation 21 (page 61) which it emphasis twice in its report; that if the Iraqi government does not make substantial success the US should reduce all support for the Iraqi government. That sounds like an ultimatum but pathetically the report does not elaborate on the &amp;quot;or else&amp;quot;. The Iraqi Study group further illustrates it's shallowness and ignorance to the Iraqi situation by failing to recognize the fact that Ali Hussein the son of Saddam Hussein's second wife, Samira Shahbandar (and not Uday or Qusay) was chosen long ago by Saddam as his rightful successor.  Samira's family roots hail from an Arab tribe that has roots in both Syria and Iraq. These ties are of great importance to Bashar al-Assad the president of Syria. Most of Saddam's family including Ali, as well as most of Saddam's scientists have since relocated to Syria. Ali Hussein is a very serious young man whom is considered a &amp;quot;genius&amp;quot; by most Arab officials. All have a great respect for him. Ali will be the key player to the resurgence of the Baathist nationalist guerrilla war in Iraq primarily to sustain the Sunni power base until he is ready to seize power and sustain a Sunni dominated Baathist regime again in Iraq.Now as for Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, the weapons he used in the Iran-Iraq war that killed an estimated 10,000 Iranians soldiers as well as against the Kurd's in Northern Iraq, that are reported to have killed 180,000 of his own countrymen. Since Saddam's execution tapes of these realities have arisen in the prosecution of the remaining senior members of his inner circle.Saddam's weapons of mass destruction were moved into Syria. There is more than enough evidence to bear out this reality. General Georges Sada, the former Iraqi Air Force commander in January 2006 elaborated on these realities during a Congressional House Select Intelligence Committee closed door hearing, chaired by Peter Hoekstra (R-MI). Sada also tells about the 20 tons of Serin gas that the Syrian government conveniently let slip through their hands into that of terrorists that attempted to release the gas in Amman, Jordan in front of the American embassy. Luckily the Jordanian intelligence thwarted that attempt to kill everyone within an 18 mile circumference. I can personally attest to these facts having heard Generals Sada's lecture in America subsequent to the noted Congressional hearing. I don't see General Sada referenced in the groups index of Iraqi Officials interviewed. General Sada also stated that the media has advised him that they will not publicize his statements because that would make Tony Blair and President Bush appear correct from the beginning. All these facts are available to the public in General Sada's book &amp;quot;Saddam's Secrets&amp;quot;.The final player in the puzzle is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was elected president of Iran on June 25, 2005. He recently was at the UN where he called President Bush the &amp;quot;Satan&amp;quot;. This is the same representative of Iran, that on numerous occasions has threatened to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. He is also claiming that the Holocaust never occurred. Ahmadinejad is a zealous believer in a Shiite Muslim religious cult that anticipates the Second Coming of the lost Twelfth (and final) Imam (prophet), named &amp;quot;the Mahdi&amp;quot;. Even when Ahmadinejad spoke to the General Assemble of the United Nations (Dec. 2005) he announced that his divine purpose was to prepare the way for the return of the Mahdi. What does that mean? Well evangelical Christians believe that the second coming of Christ will occur prior to the apocalypse. But the Mahdi cult while it also believes in a second coming, their version of the apocalypse is that it will occur first. Most Iranian Shi'as recognize a succession of twelve descendants of Mohammad and they believe that the twelfth descendent, Muhammad al Mahdi (868AD - ?) was placed in hiding at the age of five to protect him from their enemies. The last Imam is expected to return before their Day of Judgment following the Apocalypse and establish Islam as the global religion.However, one must realize that the President of Iran is powerless against the hard-line Islamists who control the Guardian Council, their judiciary or the spiritual leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, who controls the military. President Ahmadinejad's comments should be perceived as simply rhetoric because as president he does not have the authority to shape the countries foreign policy or it's nuclear policy. Ahmadinejad is a popular president amongst the poor for his efforts to subsidize the price of gasoline and for their government stipends. However he has increased repression and banned other un-Islamic behavior favored by the clerics. As head of state, whom has provoked international indignation, to believe his mission from Allah is to cause the apocalypse necessary to welcome the lost Imam Mahdi is dangerous in an area as volatile as the Middle East. Yet a nuclear war against Israel could be viewed by some in the Islamic world as the type of apocalypse needed to evoke the Mahdi's return. (Now you should understand why Muqtada al-Sadar, the religious &amp;quot;thug&amp;quot; in Baghdad, has named his dissident militia the &amp;quot;Mahdi Army&amp;quot;.)Iran has recently turned over the management of the country's nuclear facilities to the military. Meanwhile Russia has sold a $1 billion mobile missile surface-to-air defense system to defend Iran's nuclear facilities including the nuclear power facility currently being rebuilt by Russia at Bushehr that was destroyed during the 8 year long Iraq-Iran war of the 1980's.This power plant will provide the fissionable material for Iran's nuclear weapons development program.  Iran has been in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by failing to notify the IAEA (Intl. Atomic Energy Assoc. under auspices of the United Nations) of its activities. The Ayatollah Khomeini has been denouncing nuclear weapons as contrary to Islamic values while keeping Iran's clandestine nuclear activities secret for the last 18 years. These activities were uncovered in 2003 to include traces of highly-enriched weapons grade uranium; a uranium enrichment plant at Natanz; and the construction of a &amp;quot;heavy water&amp;quot; reactor in Arak. And there in lies the rub - The Bush administration is fearful that a country with a Constitution (Article 3 &amp;amp; 154) that openly promotes terrorism as a state goal is likely to allow enriched nuclear material to fall into the wrong hands (remember that Syria conveniently lost 20 tons of Serin gas). The ambition to spread the Islamic revolution has shaped Iran's foreign policy since the early1980's and has gained Iran the international dishonorable distinction of being one of the worse sponsors of terrorism. And the Iraq Study Group wants us to negotiate with them!! That is ludicrous.Meanwhile Israel has vowed not to allow the Russian reactor at Bushehr to become &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; for reasons that will be evident later in the analysis. Israel has recently doubled its submarine capacity to (4) four with the purchase of two quiet running non-nuclear submarines from Germany. Each Israeli submarine has the capacity to launch  Tomahawk cruise missiles. Israel has also recently purchased &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; bombs from the US. The subs are an alternative especially if Israel is unable to obtain permission to &amp;quot;fly-over&amp;quot; Iraq to make an aerial strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. And as Israel has illustrated previously, when they did not let Iraq go Atomic, one must face the probability that they will not allow Iran either. They didn't ask permission previously - why now. But then it appears we are about to usurp this responsibility to the Israeli's once again. A recent publication from the British media indicates that Israel in the process of preparing for just such a strike.In January 2006, Iran successfully fired a Shahab-3 missile (it has developed with North Korea assistance). This demonstrates that Iran's scientists have mastered solid-fuel capabilities.  Solid Fuel reduces launch time to virtually nothing, which makes the Shahab-3 (with a range of 800 miles and can reach Israel) harder to intercept by the Patriot &amp;amp; Arrow antimissile systems. A missile is most reliably downed immediately after launch as it gains velocity. Hitting a missile when it is in the final stages of its downward trajectory is almost impossible. Like hitting one bullet with another. And since Israel is but a one-missile country, in a barrage of Shahab-3 missiles at least one would certainly get through and strike Tel Aviv and end Israel's existence. Iran is also developing the Shahab - 6 which will have a 3,700 mile range, enough to reach the east coast of America. Hello! In the final analysis, the Mullahs of Iran are opportunistic. They also think nationalistically. Like all tyrants, the Mullahs want to impose their own vision of themselves on the rest of the world, weather the rest of the world wants to accept them or not. The Mullahs are also insane with hate and they promote suicidal actions by their subordinates (certainly not themselves). No matter how bizarre the thought is, the Mullahs will accept a nuclear attack on Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike on Israel. Why? The Mullahs of Iran calculate that they would wipe out a huge percentage of the Zionists (Jews whom settled in Israel where mount Zion is located); while an Israeli retaliation on Iran would only kill a small percentage of the world's Muslims. The crisis with Iran getting nuclear weapons is a life-or-death crisis for America but only if we remain committed to Israel's survival. Israel is a &amp;quot;one bomb&amp;quot; state. A single nuclear explosion in Tel Aviv (Jerusalem is not a target because it is also a holy site to Islam) would dramatically change the nature of the country because the attack would forever cripple Israel. The country would not recover from the human and economic disaster of even a low-yield nuclear explosion. The &amp;quot;Never Again&amp;quot; resolve of Israel takes on an even greater meaning when one bomb promises to bring the entire nation of Israel to its knees. Israel has acknowledged the &amp;quot;Samson Option&amp;quot;, a preemptive nuclear strike option that is ready and available.Iran is also a threat to gulf shipping and the shipping in the Gulf of Oman. Iran maintains the key geographical position on the northern coast of the Straits of Hormuz. Iran could cripple oil flow worldwide by attacking oil shipping through these narrow Straits. Iran currently possesses anti-ship missiles it acquired from China. And the Ukraine has supplied even more technologically advanced Russian anti-ship cruise missiles. The &amp;quot;tanker war&amp;quot; between Iran and Iraq during their war in 1987 (which sunk or damaged 138 tankers) illustrated just how easy and effective an attack on shipping would be in this area. Shipping in the Persian Gulf would cease because insurance premiums would be prohibitive. In t 1980's the U.S. Navy had to enter the gulf then to stop this stupidity and insure the flow of oil to the world. I am convinced that this is why President Bush has selected the Navy Admiral William &amp;quot;fox&amp;quot; Fallan as head of U.S. Central Command. This is a significant change in military policy because top central command position  previously has always gone to Army or Marine personnel. Admiral Fallen was selected because of his &amp;quot;statesman&amp;quot; like ability to function on a more encompassing regional strategic level from the Middle East to China and North Korea.Also the  Saudi's whom support the Sunni's in Iraq could be a target for Iran whom supports the Shiites in Iraq. The Saudi's are Arabs; the Iranians are Persians. A nuclear strike (or even a threat there of) against the Saudi oil fields would send the price of oil skyrocketing on the world market. An action such as this would further punish the Saudi ruling family for allowing the US military bases in Saudi Arabia. For those whom don't believe Iran would attack Saudi Arabia- remember the Khobar Towers. Dec. 22 (Stars&amp;amp; Strips) U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth allows families of the victims of the Khobar Towers bombing to seek compensation from assets that have been seized from the Islamic regime in Tehran. Friday's ruling was the first time Tehran has been blamed for the deaths of Americans in the bombing. Washington Post,Saturday, December 23, 2006 A federal judge ruled yesterday that Iran is responsible for the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing and ordered that the government pay $254 million to the families of 17 Americans who died in the attack in Saudi Arabia.Was that not an act of war?In February of 2006 China signed an oil &amp;amp; natural gas deal with Iran to develop the newly discovered Yadavaran fields in southwest Iran. Price tag $100 billion. Iran currently has enough oil reserves for the next 137 years as well as the funds they need to promote terrorism for their Islamic fundamentalist movement. The Chinese have had very little influential over North Korea and has propped up Kim Jung Ill's regime as well as his predecessors. As you will see later in this article - we could make China &amp;quot;squirm&amp;quot;. Hit them in the pocketbook since they are our single largest foreign trading partner. IMHO, we need sanctions against China and not North Korea! It was the U.S. that saved China by defeating Japan in WWII. So, why would anyone believe as the Iraqi Study Group does that negotiating with Iran would suddenly succeed at this the eleventh hour, when the mullahs are about to realize their dream of becoming a nuclear power?If we fail to take seriously the threat represented by an Atomic Iran, then we may be doomed to experience a nuclear war in our lifetime - certainly within our grand-children's lifetime.Meanwhile to this very day Syria continues to stir up the caldron. In Lebanon, the government coalition is known as the &amp;quot;March 14 movement&amp;quot;, after the massive protests that drove Syria out of Lebanon following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri,  holds Syria responsible for not just Hariri's killing, but a string of other assassinations of anti-Syrian figures, most recently the minister of industry, Pierre Gemayel. One whom has any knowledge about human nature and the realities of American Foreign Policy must ask &amp;quot;show me the money&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;what's in it for U.S.&amp;quot;? Why are we committing our troops in some far off gigantic sand box? Well it's simple. It's called &amp;quot;Petrodollars vs. Eurodollars&amp;quot;.Since WWII the price of oil has been tied to the almighty &amp;quot;dollars&amp;quot; which gives the U.S. a great advantage because the fluctuation of the dollar has had relative little effect on the price of oil but even more important is that  oil-importing countries need to have a supply of dollars to purchase oil - petrodollars. If suddenly the price of oil is tied to the euro instead of the dollar the effects to the U.S. economy would be devastating. Countries would dump U.S. dollars causing it to devaluate to unimaginable lows and the price of foreign goods would escalate. A devalued dollar would significantly increase our foreign debt and the U.S. would have no influence with OPEC. Suddam Hussain declared that he would no longer take U.S. dollars in 2000. The threat that other oil producing countries might do the same is a contributing factor why we went to war with Iraq.  I'll bet no one told you that fact!! In 2005, Iran decided it was going to accept only euros for oil in 2006 and it created an oil stock exchange, the Iranian Oil Bourse (IOB) to compete with the London and the New York stock exchanges. This would certainly favor Iran's customers in the European Union and make Iran the center for oil deals in the Middle East. Are the pieces of the puzzle coming together?To add some perspective to this, our dependency on foreigners for the vital necessities deepens daily. The following figures are through July, 2006:Imports into the U.S. average $188 billion each month and our trade deficit is running at an annual rate of $816 billion ($60 billion with Mexico; $70 billion with Canada; $160 billion with the Europe Union and a staggering $235 billion with China).Allow me to divest for a moment to elaborate. While the U.S. has a corporate tax, our competitors use a Value Added Tax (VAT) which is an allowable deductible on exports (by International trade regulations). What our rivals do is deduct the VAT from their exports AND to recover that lost revenue they add this tax to imports. Annually that VAT tax adds $380 billion (46.5%) to our deficit. Meanwhile 3 million manufacturing jobs have been lost during the Bush administration!We are at the threshold of history and one person whom cannot make the wrong calculation is the President of the United States.President Jimmy Carter, took office in 1977, and his miscalculations literally opened Pandora's box in the Middle East subverting the authority of the Shah of Iran (Muhammad Reza Shah) and allowing Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his Islamic fundamentalist movement to return to Iran in February of 1997. From 1964 until his return from exile, Khomeini directed demonstrators and religious militant supporters (MEK) to wage a terrorist campaign against the Shah's government in Iran.  In March of 1979, a national referendum was held and the only choice on the ballot was Khomeini's Islamic Republic appointing the Ayatollah both political &amp;amp; religious leader of Iran (for life). This has established the current Theocratic form of government in Iran, one ruled by religious authority.The fact is that millions live under tyranny and untold thousands have died world-wide because of Carter's miscalculations. Jimmy Carter is a bitter man who has recklessly celebrated tyranny, propped up authoritarian regimes, given cover to our enemies and undermined our military forces of liberty. Jimmy Carter needs to be censured by Congress.Jan 12, 2007; ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Former President Jimmy Carter's controversial book and subsequent remarks about the Israel-Palestinian conflict have prompted the resignations of 14 people from an advisory board of the Carter Center, the 25-year-old Atlanta-based humanitarian organization.Jan '07; GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (AP) -- a€¦former President Ford once called Jimmy Carter a &amp;quot;disaster&amp;quot; a€¦ I have said more than once that he was certainly the poorest president in my lifetime.&amp;quot;And President Clinton miscalculated by abandoning Israel and forcing it to accept the Oslo Accords forcing Israel to vacate lands gained during the 1967 Six Days War which was provoked by Arab armies massing at Israel's borders. Israel had re-gain control of the West Bank (taken by Jordan in the 1948 war), Gaza Strip (taken by Egypt in the 1948 war) and the Golan Heights (formerly owned by Syria &amp;amp; a very strategic site). Again in 1973, the Yom Kippur War was started by the multinational Arabs with an attack on the most religious of Jewish days of the same name. Appeasements have brought more terror upon Israel. For a little more History of Palestine; By the time the prophet Muhammad was preaching the tenets of the new Islamic religion, the Jews had not had a state for some five centuries. They had rebelled against Roman rule in 66 A.D., a rebellion that took the Romans four years to crush. A later rebellion from 132 to 135 led to the utter destruction of Jerusalem. The Romans rebuilt the town renamed it  and no Jew was allowed to set foot there on pain of death. The Jewish nation-state was no more. It was not to exist again until the middle of the 20th century.Before World War I the Middle East was at peace for 400 years and under the control of the Ottoman Empire. This empire of the Turks (non-Arab Muslims) ruled over all the lands whose names are now so familiar to us. The countries that are now Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Israel and others were all ruled by a declining empire that had once also presided over vast lands in both North Africa and southeastern Europe. However, just prior to WWI, ethnic aspirations were surfacing through Europe and the Middle East. Increased educational opportunities lead to reading of national literature which lead to aspirations of Nationalism, the key ingredient that ignited the first World War. At the onset of World War I, it was not clear which side the Ottoman Empire would support. Both the British and the Germans courted the Turks. Finally the sultan opted to support the German Kaiser, a fatal decision that ultimately led to the birth of many new nations. Ironically, in this revolt the Arabs sided with Christian British forces against the Muslim Turks, but the desire for an independent Arab nation was paramount. The Arabs understood that victory would mean an Arab nation.  Anxious to win the war, the British had given contradictory promises to the Arabs and Jews and also to their allies, the French and Russians.Following the defeat of the Axis powers In WWI, the empires of Germany, Austria and the Ottomans all collapsed. The Russian Empire had already fallen to communism. In November 1917, Russia fell to the Bolsheviks. In the same month, just five days before the Bolsheviks took power in Russia, the British had issued the famous Balfour Declaration, named for the British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour, which promised Zionists a national homeland in Palestine. Arabs whom had fought with the British against the Turks, expected full control of all Arab lands, other than those already under European colonial rule such as Egypt, Aden and Algeria. They certainly expected Arabia, Iraq, Syria and Palestine to be directly and exclusively controlled by Arabs. Palestine, the modern name for the ancient biblical territories of Israel and Judah, often referred to as the Holy Land, had been under Islamic control since the seventh century, except for a brief period during the Crusades in the 11th century. Jews could live in Palestine, but any attempt to create a Jewish homeland would be resisted. At the peace conference in Paris that led to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Arab delegates and T.E. Lawrence (&amp;quot;Lawrence of Arabia&amp;quot;) were betrayed as the victorious allies divided the Ottoman Empire between British and French spheres of influence. The newly formed League of Nations formally gave Britain a mandate to rule over Palestine, Transjordan and Iraq. The French received a similar mandate to rule over Syria and Lebanon. Neither the Jews nor the Arabs received what they had been promised. British Palestine was a twice promised land.For a while the British allowed unrestricted Jewish immigration, but this led to Arab outcries. Fearful of a Jewish takeover, the Arabs demanded that the British end Jewish immigration. This they did-but on the eve of World War II, in which 6 million Jews would be put to death in the Nazi Holocaust. The escape route to Palestine had been cut off just when it was needed most.During the three decades that the British controlled Palestine, the political map of the region continued to change. The Egyptians regained their sovereignty in 1922 and Iraq in 1932. Lebanon received independence from France in 1941. Following the end of World War II in 1945, an exhausted Britain began her withdrawal from the Middle East. Pakistan and India were given independence in 1947. A withdrawal from Palestine was to follow less than a year later. Syria followed five years later in 1946, the same year in which the British created an independent Palestinian- Arab state when it gave independence to Transjordan (shortened to Jordan). The 1947 UN-approved Resolution 181 called for partitioning the British-ruled Palestine Mandate into a Jewish state and an Arab state and for Jerusalem to be an international UN-administered city. The resolution was accepted by the Jews in Palestine, but rejected by the Arabs there and by all Arab states. The Jewish nation of Israel was declared the evening of May 14-15, 1948, with a population of half a million. It was immediately attacked by armies from five Arab nations-Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt. Israel triumphed, but decades of violence were to follow, with additional wars in 1956, 1967, 1973 and 1982.Our forefathers warned that liberty requires a constant vigil. Should the current or future Presidents chose the negotiation-and-diplomacy route, and should Iran launch a nuclear strike against Israel (or the US) the very critics whom push the diplomatic route will be the first one's to accuse the president of being negligent. Another thought for consideration. While the reconstruction of Europe after WWII took 40 years because America was obliged to involve all the European parties, the reconstruction of post-WWII   Japan was accomplished within ten years because America, without the disruption from outside interference established a Democracy in a country that had been devastated by two nuclear explosions. And Now for the summation and the final factor in the equation - demographics which is the number-crunching accumulation of dry statistics which will prove that long-term America is alone, if and only if we have the will to succeed and save civilization as we know it! Just like Ireland saved humanity during the &amp;quot;Dark Ages&amp;quot;, will America be willing to do like wise for the future of the world?While demographics does not answer all the questions it does solve 90 % of them. All geopolitical challenges in the years ahead will be rooted in demographics. Demographics is the central equation in human development. It is the underlying demographic trends that will prove decisive in the century ahead. Human inventiveness depends on humans. A societies health - it's innovation and creative energies- are dependent on its youthfulness. And while the developed Western civilization has put a man on the moon; invented the Internet just to mention a couple recent innovations, it has contributed to mankind's technological development, economic growth, military performance and an elevated standard of living, unlike the Muslim world, who's last contribution to mankind was the Arabic alphabet and from the eleventh century on the Muslim culture has been in decline. Muslins derive their economic power from the &amp;quot;Sufi&amp;quot; theologian Al-Ghazali whom is considered the greatest Muslim since Mohammed. This is a sect within Islam. Al-Ghazali  devised the theory of a &amp;quot;jizya&amp;quot; or tax to be paid by non-Muslims. This has been the cause for the lack of economic innovation in the Islamic world and the main diving force in the spread of this religion. When Islam conquered infidel lands it set in motion a massive transfer of wealth. The infidel base slowly shrank when non-muslims realized it was better to join the religion than pay this tax. These Muslim societies always moved toward economic morbidity demanding that the jihadist movement spread from one part of the world to the next, producing at it's height a prototype welfare state. The Muslim world has effortless extended the concept of jizya worldwide with the advent of the internal combustion engine which has not changed significantly in the last century. Augment that fact to their vast oil reserves and one realizes that technologically driven economies are paying for the rope that could hang themselves. Such is the case in Saudi Arabia (and neighboring Gulf States) where oil revenues collected by the House of Saud not only buys off their own subjects but buys up the labor of other countries around the world.Returning to the reality of demographics - as fertility dries up, so do societies. The twentieth century social-democratic states were built based on a requirement of an ever increasing population. Demography is the most obvious symptom of civilization exhaustion - the clearest indicator of where we are going. It's the game of &amp;quot;last man standing&amp;quot;. We are living in a rare moment in time in which you will witness the self-extinction of the civilization which, for better or worse, shaped the world we live in. The developed world's population is shrinking faster than any human society not in the grip of war or disease has ever shrunk. The crises the civilized world is facing in not &amp;quot;overpopulation&amp;quot; but the opposite.While the United States is hovering at a replacement birth rate of 2.11 babies per woman, Western women in Europe as a whole have a fertility rate of 1.4 and Muslims living in Europe are reproducing at a rate of 3.4 babies per woman. Ireland's birth rate is at 1.9; Austria is at 1.7; Canada is at 1.48; Japan is 1.38; Greece, Germany and Austria at 1.3 births per woman which is considered by demographers as the &amp;quot; lowest-low&amp;quot; level of fertility from which a society can recover. Next down the scale we have Italy at 1.2; Russia at 1.14 and Spain at 1.13 babies per woman. The later numbers mean that those countries will half their population within the next 35 years, and on, and on thereafter. Of concern is what will a dying culture like Russia do to stave off this reality (or take it down with them)?With 50 million Muslims currently living in Europe as the native European population is aging and fading away they are being supplanted by youth Muslims demographics. And civil disobedience is a young man's game. So while for America the war on Terror is being played out in the far away land of Iraq and Afghanistan; Europe's war on terror is being played out now and it's home grown! All this points to the reality that Europe will be a Muslim Continent in the next few generations and all of America's known historical Allies will evaporate. The U.S government's National Intelligence Council is predicting the EU will collapse by the year 2020.Jan 20; LONDON, England (CNN) -- When we reported the unprecedented suicide bombings of the London underground trains and buses in 2005, we were shocked beyond words that young British Muslims, born and bred here, would go to that extreme. We could not understand what would drive them to kill themselves and their fellow citizens. &amp;quot;I happen to be in an ideological and political war,&amp;quot; Choudary said.Jan 12, 2007; ATHENS, Greece (CNN) -- Senior U.S. State Department officials say the initial assessment of Friday's attack on the U.S. Embassy in Athens is undetermined. Police chief Asimakis Golfis was reported by AP as saying the attack was an &amp;quot;act of terrorism.&amp;quot;Jan 19; DUBLIN, Ireland (CNN) -- At a recent debate over the battle for Islamic ideals in England, a British-born Muslim stood before the crowd and said Prophet Mohammed's message to nonbelievers is: &amp;quot;I come to slaughter all of you.&amp;quot; Anjem Choudary, the public face of Islamist extremism in Britain, added that Muslims have no choice but to take the fight to the West.Now Nigeria's birth rate is at 7.46; Mali at 7.42; Somalia, 6.76; Afghanistan, 6.69; Yemen, 6.58.  That means that in Yemen's case 49% of it's population is under the age of 15. In Saudi Arabia the figure is 39% of it's population is less than 15 years of age; Pakistan its 40% and by comparison in Span and Germany only 14 percent of it population are less than 15; in the United Kingdom its 18% and in America its 21percent. Fortunately for the world as we know it was the demographic transformation in the nineteenth century caused by the western developing societies resolving infant mortality. These countries had a long developed system of laws, property rights and personal freedom. It's hard to imagine a world in which the demographics are controlled by those whom have less or no sustained tradition of individual liberty but demographics founded on &amp;quot;jihad&amp;quot;.There is no precedent in human history of economic growth with declining human capital. In Europe, like Japan, has catastrophic birth rates and a swollen pampered elderly class determined to live in defiance of economic reality. For the economics of the situation - let's compare the social security differences between America and Europe and  put it in perspective. By 2040, in the US these program will represent 6.8% of our Gross Domestic Product. By then in Greece the figure will be a staggering 25% of their GDP!! Just how many young Greeks will remain at home to pay this outrageous level of compensation for a society who's government is the grantor of a comfortable old age. The continent of Europe consists of countries hooked on unaffordable level of social programs which will in the end bankrupt these countries. In Europe, the &amp;quot;soft culture&amp;quot; is so pervasive that it grants state pensions, protected jobs, six weeks of paid vacation, lavish unemployment benefits, thirty-five hour work week, and subsidized business profits.  This &amp;quot;soft culture&amp;quot; in the European continent has become subservient to the bullying side of Muslim immigrants. The bombing in London and Madrid are but two of the most obvious. Two days after the bombing in Spain the government was voted out and there troops were bought out of Iraq. Non-Muslim women in heavily Muslim neighborhoods in France now wear headscarves while on the streets. And in most urban areas in France,  Muslims make up 45 % of the population.More significantly in France, nearly 30% of the population 20 years of age and younger are Muslims. These &amp;quot;youth&amp;quot; rioted when the government attempted to modify job guarantee program for first time employees. Muslim youth beat to death a train conductor recently in the presence of 40 bystanders whom were too afraid to get involved. Already there is a mass exodus by the Danes from their own country. There are incident after incident where Muslim gangs are terrorizing native European citizens. And in defiance of normal immigration patterns, the host countries as is the case in Europe are assimilating into Islam which is now the fastest growing religion in Europe (and Canada). So much so that Libyan President Colonel Gaddafi stated the &amp;quot; There are signs that Allah will win a great victory in Europe - without swords, guns or conquest&amp;quot;. The four horsemen of the European apocalypse are approaching in a gallope; Death- to the European culture; Famine - or the end of lavish hand outs; War - bloody civil unrest and Conquest - by the Muslim faith!The real challenge for Americans and Congress is -  are we going to continue to keep focused on non-problems that terrify us beyond reason like the supposed ecological problem of global warming and rising tides or are we going to pay heed to the real problems facing us  which is Islamic terrorism and illegal immigration. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to end the war in Iraq]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:32:58 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Democracy2007</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=How-to-end-war-in-Iraq-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1) Impeach Georgie cloud sitting Bush2) Fund reconstruction in Iraq (not launder money through Halliburpton).3) Revisit all true intelligence reports, and make Richard Clark the prime investigator. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[how to end the war]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:32:33 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neutroncopernicus</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[first; president bush should stop using the word &amp;quot;war&amp;quot; and substitute &amp;quot;visit&amp;quot;. he can  then say it is impolite to overstay ones' visit and, after leaving suitable gifts such as body bags, shovels (to dig graves) and cookbooks concerning the proper preperation and receipes for pork, bush simply announces he does not want to appear rude and will be leaving tommorrow. he also promises to write often. problem solved. neutron &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[CNN Political Ticker]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:16:32 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vanhorne99</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=CNN-Political-Ticker</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Lieberman called President Bush's decision to send more troops into the meat-grinder &amp;quot;courageous&amp;quot;. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[End this war!]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:47:21 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ron1st</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=End-this-war</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let our Military generals do thier jobs! Move our troops out of all hot spots and only send them in as stike teams for short periods let them mop it up and move back to a neutral zone.  Let them blow themselves up and not our troops!! &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Exit strategy]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:10:09 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunny</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Exit-strategy</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no new way to escape the chaos we have created for the Iraqi people of any faith nor to justify our own ignorance in creating the quagmire.  We can provide hospitalenclaves protected by international forces--mostly USA andBritain to begin some recovery of lives and health in the area. Far too little too late but worth the effort and theburden.  Perhaps even the various nations and religions'medical people would be willing to help staff theneede personnel if we provide the technical infrastructure and the pharmaceutical needs. Salvage something from the mess of our making. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[how to get out without a bloodbath]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:58:01 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>galaga</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=how-to-get-out-without-bloodbath-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[the only way to get out is to divide the country up between the sunni's, shiites and kurds.  The kurds already have control of their area so we have to come with a formula to split up the rest of the country between the sunni's and shiites.  This formula seems to  be the only thing which could end this war without a bloodbath for Iraqi civilians.  I fail to see any other realisitic option to stop the deaths and maimings of all people involved. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to end this war]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=How-to-end-this-war</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:57:57 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nanuk3456@msn.com</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=How-to-end-this-war</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Impeach Bush &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[how to end this war]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:57:54 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>richter</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=how-to-end-this-war-1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[how to end this war in iraq the best way is finish what we started it's like this pay now or pay later going gets tough  the tough get going to not from. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Iraq civil war]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:59:37 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sea4wolf</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Iraq-civil-war</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's too late to create peace in Iraq by military means. The three rival factions have their own leaders, sources of funding, arms, and troops all in abundant supply. The Kurds already have their autonomous state in the north. The Shia and Sunni will fight it out until a a€˜strong-man' (or woman) emerges to take control. The Shia will for certain win in the end because there are more of them and because they are better supported by Iran. The presence of foreign troops only slows the process and makes it more painful. We should WITHDRAW all US troops from the country and secure Iraq's border until the Iraqis can secure their own border. Forget training more Iraqi troops, they mostly take the training and weapons we give them home to fight in the local militias against each other. Forget the surge, it will only supply more targets. Forget building more schools, power plants, etc. Rebuilding is what you do after the war. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[This is not a "war" with competing armies, it's the colonial occupation of Iraq]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=This-is-not-war-with-competing-armies-its-colonial-occupation-Iraq</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=This-is-not-war-with-competing-armies-its-colonial-occupation-Iraq</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:16:58 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mindguerilla</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=This-is-not-war-with-competing-armies-its-colonial-occupation-Iraq</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The country of &amp;quot;Iraq&amp;quot; was created by British occupiers in 1920. They deliberately put 3 rival factions, Sunni, Shia and Kurd in one country - like &amp;quot;putting 3 scorpions in a jar.&amp;quot; Divide and conquer!  Now the country is returning to its original components and they will never allow the US or Al Quada to rule their tribal territory.  Bush has put a puppet government in power that is aligned with the Shia which will only strengthen Iran.  The neo-con plan to invade Iraq and then Iran was put into place in 1997 (Project for the New American Century), long before the pretext for war, 9/11 ever happened. This is not a &amp;quot;war on terror&amp;quot; it is a resistance to an occupation that wants to privatize all of Iraq's assets and give them to American corporations and oil companies. Wake up America! &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tears  of president bush]]></title>
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		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Tears--president-bush</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:15:28 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denisemattoo</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Tears--president-bush</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crocadile tears of a president who has not a clue of how it feels to endure suffering of any kind. He was born into wealth and his only concern is  how to keep his wealth afloat.With no regard to life or limb loss. The emotionless tear he managed to squeez out of his eye to fool the public into thinking he is human did not go over too well with me. I would like to make  a comparison of Bush to Oprah. here is a woman who was born in poverty, suffered at the hand of a rapist as a child,endured much as a black women, became one of the worlds richest women. She in turn goes to South Africa and spends her money in helping poor opressed girls. Here is Bush who probably has no clue what it is like to endure hunger of pain of any kind, making more demands to send more soldiers to fight a war that no one wants including the president of the country he profess to be helping. His only concern is for himself and his bank account. The oil in Iraq is the only thing he wants to protect or take control of. How could someone be crying for the loss of a life and with the same breath sending more soldiers to be killed, how contraty and ironic and contridictory.Does he think the American people are so stupid as to be fooled by one lousy tear. what about all the buckets of tears being shed by family members of the thousands of soldiers who have lost life and limb and are not even counted or accounted for or compensated for losses endured.Mr presedent you have no earthly idea what suffering is.How dear you insult the American people by trying to pretend you have any human feelings for the people whose lives have been lost.If you really cared you would not be sending any more innocent people to do your gready, dirty, oil hungry work. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[march on washington?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=march-on-washington</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=march-on-washington</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:12:41 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>willie3070</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=march-on-washington</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[who has the balls to join a march on d.c. on behalf of all our dead man at the hands of all the &amp;quot;folks&amp;quot;that sent them away from us and our great country never ever to return&amp;quot; &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Train, train, train...]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Train-train-train</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Train-train-train</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:45:20 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thejink</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Train-train-train</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If we are increasing our troops, then we should send them for training purposes.  We should concentrate on reinforcing their security infrastructure so that they can protect themselves.  Half our troops should be training them while the other half is protecting our trainers.  We should concentrate on training a smaller amount of their troops better than to try to train them all. When a group proves on patrol that they are competent and highly trained, then that number of our original force should come home.  This should be repeated until all our original force is home and all we have left are trainers and those protecting the trainers.  Then we can reduce the size of our training troops. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[More Troops Finish it Right]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=More-Troops-Finish-it-Right</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=More-Troops-Finish-it-Right</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:44:20 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NoWar</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=More-Troops-Finish-it-Right</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We need to finish what we started, even if it means more troops.  Door to door checks disarming all who are not military or police. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pull the Troops out of Iraq]]></title>
		<link>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Pull-Troops-out-Iraq</link>
		<comments>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Pull-Troops-out-Iraq</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sourkitten</dc:creator>
		<category>Iraq</category>
		<guid>http://www.howtoendthiswar.com/story.php?title=Pull-Troops-out-Iraq</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe that enough is enough the only plan we should work on his how fast we can make Iraq's problmes their own. &nbsp;&#187;&nbsp;<a href='1'>original news</a>]]></description>
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