Let's face facts: American troops are dying to protect more corruption and anti-liberal polcies by an Arab government.
Bush should have sent the troops into Iran, not Iraq. Sadaam Hussein was already defanged (by Daddy Bush and by Israel), and the backer of international terrorism has always been Iran not Iraq.
Here is a sad story of what American soldiers have died for: a country that is prepared to sentence to death any parliamentarians who so much as "visit" Israel or advocate peace.
So, you see, I think the ideology of Tolerism is so rampant that all Americans (including Republicans) should take a good hard look at what values in the world the Americans want to support and enhance. They actually might start to understand that instead of Tolerism to corrupt Iraqi politicians, who are welcomed as allies in some ill-defined war, they should be partnering with Israel as the only real Model for liberal democracy in the whole Middle East. The rest of those suicide-bombing and terrorist supporting folks who abuse their women and children, should just be isolated, and disarmed when they try to acquire nuclear weapons, and left in their backwardness and suicidal policies. Let them continue to blame America and Israel for everything, but disengage from them and just stop this World War that they think they are winning.
http://www.jpost.
Iraqi MP may be sentenced to death for visiting Israel
Associated Press , THE JERUSALEM POST
First his two sons were murdered. Now he faces prosecution. The reason for Mithal al-Alusi's troubles? Visiting Israel and advocating peace with the Jewish state - something Iraq's leaders refuse to consider.
The Iraqi is at the center of a political storm after his fellow lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to strip him of his immunity and allow his prosecution for visiting Israel - a crime punishable by death under a 1950s-era law. Such a fate is unlikely for al-Alusi, though he may lose his party's sole seat in parliament.
Because he had visited Israel, many Iraqis assume the maverick legislator was the real target of the assassins who killed his sons in 2005 while he escaped unharmed.
Now he is in trouble for again visiting Israel and attending a conference a week ago at the International Institute for Counterterrorism.
"He wasn't set to speak, but he was in the audience and conversed with a lecturer on a panel about insurgency and terrorism in Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel," said conference organizer Eitan Azani. "We didn't invite him. He came on his own initiative."
Al-Alusi has a German passport, allowing him to travel without visa restrictions imposed on other Iraqis. Lawmakers accused him of humiliating the nation with a trip to the "enemy" state.
The uproar shows how far Iraq has moved from the early US goal of creating a democracy that would make peace with Israel and remove a critical force from the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The US Embassy declined comment. "It is an issue for the Iraqi parliament, not the US Mission to Iraq," said spokesman Armand Cucciniello.
"What has happened was a catastrophe for democracy," Al-Alusi told The Associated Press in an interview in his Baghdad home. "Within an hour's time, the parliament became the policeman, the investigator, the judge, the government and the law. It was a sham trial."
Al-Alusi said he went to Israel to seek international support for Iraq as it struggles against terrorism, and insisted that the outcry reflected Iranian meddling in Iraq's internal affairs - an accusation often leveled by Sunnis like himself against Iraq's mostly Shi'ite neighbor.
"Iran is behind Hamas and Hizbullah and many other terrorist organizations. Israelis are suffering like me, like my people. So we need to be together," he said. "Peace will have more of a chance."
Iraq sent troops to three Arab wars against Israel, and fired Scud missiles at it in the 1991 Gulf War. It remains technically at war with the Jewish state. Iraq's once-thriving Jewish community has shriveled to just a few people, most having fled after Israel was established in 1948.