Hi Dora,

You have the right outlook.  Continuing pray for this world is the best thing we can do, because, in the end, God IS sovereign, and everything is, indeed, under his control.

God bless,

Dave

Dave,

I joined your forum as I respect your ideas but I look  outside the world's 5 media monopolies for answers.

I also thought what we were doing was right until I did the digging you are proposing.

Once I looked up and dug on the JFK assasination, the OKC bombing, the 1st world trade center bombing & the second it all adds up to conspiracy facts not theories.

 Tons of video on all of these on YouTube & Google.
Also very interesting what a high rate of accidents and suicides the witnesses to these events have had.

I find it interesting that right after V.P. Cheney visits Iraq, Mr. Zebari flys here to beg us to stay in Iraq.

I just had my first person decide to drop me as a friend tonight & I am sure it is because of my controversial post here earlier.

Be blessed Dave, I appreciate you.

                                                          Darryl

You said it, Dave.

Lawton

Hello Dave,

Thanks for keeping Neil in our minds and for sharing this pleaing letter. Since I live near Fort Bliss I hear and see a lot from our soldiers and many do speak of more positive things that have come from this war. The smiling faces and thank you's they get from Iraq citizens and the open homes and meals that have been shared.

News media and government has never been totally truthful of what all has happened and they never will in the US. Here in El Paso, TX we are able to recieve Mexican news broadcasts as well and they show far more about the truth than the US news lets on.

And yet, even with war being as ugly as it is, the public needs to face that once we were in it it's all the way to victory or we will be suffering far worse than the casualties we have now. Our young men and women joined our nation's military organizations knowing that they may be called to fight. Freedom is not free.

And everyone that opposes any kind of defense for it's country and alliances to our fellow countrymen surely needs to get a grip of reality. There will always be a demon lurking to try to control and dictate. We and our alliances need to be ready to be sure that doesn't happen.

Ok, as Beverly said, enough of being on the soapbox.

And Ms. Beverly, I hope this is a sign that you are doing better. Many hugs and welcome back. You have been missed.

And Dave. Please tell Neil hello.

Kenneth R Sword Jr

Hi, Dave,

Mr. Zebari is a Kurd and a career politician who claims to have been a guerilla fighter against Sadam Husein but he is also a major factor in the suppression of the large Sunni  minority. I think that this letter has more to do with that than it has with trying to restore peace in Iraq.

It is quite understandable that Mr Zebari should couch his request for the retention of the Coalition presence in Iraq in such emotive terms, after all, it was only in January that he requested more American (not, you will notice, coalition) troops to be sent to Iraq after the American kidnapping of five officials and it is significant that this missive is presented after a meeting with Dick Cheney.

There would be no relationship between this letter and the awaited release of the five officials still held by American security forces, would there?

I fear that Mr Zebari is seeking ways to ensure that the Kurds, and he is a member of one of the biggest and most influencial Kurdish tribes, assume full power in Iraq when coalition forces do, finally, leave.

I hate to be cynical but I really do have to question the motivation when an arab not only invites the continued presence of an invading force in his country but also does it with all the eloquence of a professional script writer.

The Old Coot

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