A BRAND NEW THOUGHT

Giving hope to Iraqis can go a long way

Maybe the way to reduce the insurgency in Iraq is to give the Iraqi people hope. So, the question is: How do you give those who have lost so much, hope? One way to start is by giving them something they sorely lack.

A JOB

We have many problems in Iraq. One of which is unemployment which now stands at 70 percent!. There are as few as 20,000 and as many as 83,000 civilian contractors working in Iraq today. Americans, Brits and many other nationalities are all performing the hard job of rebuilding Iraq.

FIRE THEM ALL

Give those jobs to the Iraqi people. Let Iraqi truck drivers drive trucks. Let Iraqi engineers create and engineer. Once Iraqis get to work and earn money to support their families, maybe they won’t kidnap westerners and sell them to the terrorists for food money. Maybe when the Iraqi people can afford to put food on the table they won’t want to kill the troops that are protecting them while they perform their new jobs. Maybe when the Iraqis are the ones fixing their own roads and patching their own buildings those roads will be safe to travel and those buildings will be safe to occupy. We should let the Iraqi people fix their own infrastructure and sell their own oil.

Maybe if we get rid of  Halliburton’s “no-bid” contracts and let our European allies bid on them, they will also employ some Iraqis. John Kerry is right. There are ways to get our fading friends in France and Germany back in the ballgame. We know that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney can’t do it. They owe too much to companies like Halliburton and their subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown and Root.

Maybe when the Iraqi people are working they won’t want to pick up arms against us, the ones they now consider an occupying force.

By providing jobs and hope to the people in Iraq, maybe, just maybe, we can get them on our side once again.

 - nationalview.org, September 29, 2004

Check out this webpage from http://www.oilcareer.org/iraq.htm

Work In Rebuilding Iraq and Earn
$60,000 to $200,000 Per Year Guaranteed!

Immediate Jobs In Iraq Available:

Entry Level, Labor, Trades, Technical, Administrative, and Professional roles.

Must be willing to work in a war zone. Full 24 hour a day U.S. military protection will be in place to insure safety. With new heightened security you'll be 100% safe.

Does anybody really believe this crap?

A NEW THOUGHT , NOW AN OLDER THOUGHT

On June 28, 2004, sovereignty was turned over to the temporary Iraqi government by the United States, a full 2 days in ahead of schedule. What is impressive is that the Bush administration thought it better to do this without the fanfare that might have accompanied the turnover had it happened on schedule. Instead, the U.S. took the prudent route of surprising those that might have attempted terrorist activities on the planned date of June 30, 2004.

Let’s keep the smart ideas coming. Now that sovereignty has been turned over to the Iraqi people, why don't we plan on getting our young men and women out of there.

New Iraqi Leaders

L. Paul Bremmer

Here's the plan:

• Let Iraq's neighbors and near neighbors, such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt supply troops to support the new, but temporary government in Iraq. There would be a lot less turmoil and a lot more respect by the Iraqi people for an occupying or stabilizing force that was of the same background as the Iraqi people.
• Since Iraq's population is overwhelmingly Muslim, if for no other reason than appearances sake alone, it might be better if those helping the Iraqi people get back on their feet were of the same religion and shared the same fundamental values. I couldn’t imagine any of Iraq’s neighbors denying the people of Iraq the opportunity of their experience and their friendship.
• Since Iraq is the 2nd largest oil producer in the World, the money it receives, after repaying their debt, would pay for its reconstruction.
• Egypt, with over 300,000 active troops; Saudi Arabia, with over 200,000 active troops: and Jordan, with over 100,000 active troops could surely supply the manpower needed for Iraq to get back on its feet as well as the training and resources necessary to accomplish the job. Surely the people of Iraq would stand up for those that believe and worship similarly to themselves. Surely those Iraqis training to be military personnel and policemen would not turn on people they consider their own kind. Surely with these forces coming in to help, the Iraqi people would stand up for themselves and against the terrorists that threaten to take over their country. The United States could still remain as a presence on the outer edges of the cities and in areas where U.S. personnel need to be protected and interests need to be secured.

If both the U.S. and Arab World really want to help the people of Iraq, they would consider a plan such as this.

Is it real? Or is it sarcasm? It all depends on the sincerity of the Arab and Muslim World.

 - nationalview.org, June 28, 2004

Iraq and the Threat of Terrorism

Since Al-Qaeda poses the most serious threat to the U.S., we should devote most of our military resources to finding and eliminating them. At the very least, this will keep them on the run and thus, be less able to organize, finance and execute terrorist acts. Let the United Nations handle the formation of a new government in Iraq while the United States rids the world of the likes of Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists.

To state that by ridding the world of Saddam Hussein we rid the world of an evil presence is true. However, as a country, the United States can’t remove all of the world’s evil leaders. We shouldn’t have to spread our military and financial resources thinly in order to make that happen.  As a country, we need to defend the citizens of the United States first and rely on the rest of the world to act as our partners in ridding the world of the “Axis of Evil”.

What is troublesome is the thought that the United States could somehow police the entire world. We can’t and we shouldn’t want to. Using the current administration’s logic, by invading Iraq we “rid the world of an evil”. Do we now invade Iran? Syria? How about North Korea

 - nationalview.org, March, 2004

Thoughts on President Bush and His Supporting Cast

• The president said that those who opposed pre-emptive action in Iraq are the same ones who said they would have wanted 
  pre-emptive action Afghanistan, thus calling them hypocrites

• What the president also wondered is why the previous administration didn't take pre-emptive action in Afghanistan

• QUESTIONS FOR PRESIDENT BUSH:

  • Why didn't YOU and your administration take pre-emptive action against Afghanistan?

  • Why didn't YOU say anything about Afghanistan and the need for a pre-emptive strike during the 2000 campaign?

  • Why didn't YOU or  anyone in your administration say anything about pre-emptive strikes in Afghanistan between 9/11 and Richard Clarke's testimony before the 9/11 commission?

• What happens in a few years when (if) a puppet US regime in Iraq is overthrown by a religious majority (E.g.; Iran circa 1980) 
  and they are supporters of terror?

• If there were 70 active investigations that President Bush was aware of being performed by the FBI, then...

  • Between then and September 11, 2001, wouldn't you have asked a follow-up question or 2 of the FBI?

• Let us also assume that ALL of the ills that effect us today are not the fault of George W. Bush, but of those under him. 

  • Didn't he select these people?

• AND if we assume that it is not the fault of George W. Bush or those that serve under him, but the fault of the bureaucracies
  that have existed well before his presidency, then...

  • Shouldn't he have said that he was going to revamp these other bureaucracies during his 2000 campaign?

• AND if they realized that after 9/11 that these bureaucracies needed to be revamped, as they have said, then...

  • Why has the revamping not begun almost 3 years after 9/11, even until today?
    -nationalview.org, April 20, 2004

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