Maybe my stay the course attitute in my last post is partly a result of my own media biases. Upon further reading I found that according to a poll taken in September 2006, 80 percent of Iraqi's favor a full US withdrawel within a year, 65% favoring an immediate pullout, with 77 percent suspicious that the US wants to establish permanent bases in Iraq. Is is right for us to keep bases there, will we try? I think we should prove them wrong on that one. Is Iraq a central and sensible location to have US military bases. Militarily, especially depending on military objectives, yes. But does that mean we should? No.
I just want to admit that while in my last blog I criticized the left wing voices who are calling for a withdrawel now, they may be right. They really might be right. If the people of Iraq want us out, and if we as Americans really believe in Democracy, then we should leave, and leave them to their free will's fate. Democracy in Iraq does not mean having a government who lets us do what we want there, it means having a government representative of the people. Not our people, their people.
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