The bottom line
After a fairly extensive conversation with my cousin this evening, I came away feeling almost exactly what I have always felt since this war began: the media portrays an extremely distorted view of what is going on in Iraq. If you want the real scoop, you must talk to the people that were (or still are) really serving over there. Only then will you begin to understand the significance of what we are accomplishing in the Middle East.
posted by Remz Pokorny @ 11:47 PM
5 Comments:
At 10:16 PM,
Robert Taylor said…
Oh yes, Remz, we really accomplished alot. We now have a president in Iraq who refuses to shake a woman's hand. Joy, rapture!
At 8:00 AM,
Remz Pokorny said…
That's just their culture, dude. They'll get over it eventually.
At 8:05 AM,
Remz Pokorny said…
You have to understand a simple thing, my Latino friend: Iraqis are not like other Arabs. This period of confusion turmoil is a phase and nothing more. The fact that the president of Iraq refuses to shake a woman's hand to me is something temporary. Iraq has always been traditionally a secular country. I have confidence that these radical elements will eventually be excluded from all walks of Iraqi life very soon and things will return to the way they used to be (and better, because they will have democracy), thereby influencing the rest of the region.
At 4:11 PM,
Robert Taylor said…
I like you're first comment. "They'll get over it eventually". Wow, it's been millenia now, and they haven't "gotten over it"
At 4:12 PM,
Robert Taylor said…
As for your second comment: spoken like a true Bush-ite.
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