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Friday, September 28, 2007
[1850 - Congress outlaws flogging on Navy ships]
[1892 - Elmer Rice (Elmer Reizenstein), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, director, born in New York City]
[1901 - William S. Paley, TV Hall of Fame broadcast executive, born in Chicago]
[1909 - Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin), cartoonist, born in New Haven, Connecticut]
[1916 - Peter Finch (Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch), Academy Award-winning actor, born in London]
[1919 - Tom Harmon, football player & broadcaster, born in Rensselaer, Indiana]
[1924 - Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastrojanni), actor, born in Fontana Liri, Italy]
Go Away
In other words, according to a study conducted over a year ago by our own State Department and other independent agencies, three out of every four Iraqis in Baghdad wanted the US troops to leave. About two out of every three Baghdad-resident Iraqis would like to see the US troops gone tomorrow, and believe that if they pulled out the city would be safer. The very citizens that we are now concentrating our efforts to protect want us to leave so that they can take care of their own problems.
This result should not be surprising. If Iraqi troops had invaded our country, imprisoned the president, executed his two daughters, and disbanded all military and police forces, we might be anxious to have them gone. If, after 4 1/2 years there remained over 160,000 Iraqi troops in this country, an equal number of gun-toting Islamists, together with another 20,000 operatives from other Arab states, and they showed no signs of leaving, we might begin to suspect their motives. If, in addition, a total breakdown of law and order had occurred, resulting in widespread racial and ethnic violence with thousands of US citizens dying every month, we might be only too happy to show these unwelcome guests out.
How much longer are we supposed to listen to the lies that are promulgated by the President and the other talking heads in his Administration before we rise up and demand that he stop this useless bloodshed and bring our troops home?
William's Whimsical Words:
So, what part of "get the US troops out of my country" don't you understand, Mr. President?
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