Iraq Wants us Out

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Registered: 04-24-2008
Iraq Wants us Out
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Fri, 11-07-2008 - 6:31am

It's funny how what Iraq wanted, rarely entered the presidential debates in this election.

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Registered: 09-14-1997
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 6:36am

Forgive me for this....I am teaching this in my current unit and it just seemed to fit your post


Take up the White Man’s burden—

Send forth the best ye breed—

Go send your sons to exile

To serve your captives' need

To wait in heavy harness

On fluttered folk and wild—

Your new-caught, sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child

Take up the White Man’s burden

In patience to abide

To veil the threat of terror

And check the show of pride;

By open speech and simple

An hundred times made plain

To seek another’s profit

And work another’s gain

Take up the White Man’s burden—

And reap his old reward:

The blame of those ye better

The hate of those ye guard—

The cry of hosts ye humour

(Ah slowly) to the light:

"Why brought ye us from bondage,

“Our loved Egyptian night?”

Take up the White Man’s burden-

Have done with childish days-

The lightly proffered laurel,

The easy, ungrudged praise.

Comes now, to search your manhood

Through all the thankless years,

Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,

The judgment of your peers!


Source: Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden: The United States & The Philippine Islands, 1899.” Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Definitive Edition (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1929).

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Registered: 04-24-2008
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 6:46am

That is so appropriate.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2007
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 11:06am

Yes it is sad.


We should leave on a schedule that the generals agree too

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Registered: 05-06-2007
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 11:29am

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Registered: 07-19-2007
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 12:51pm

Ya think - lets examine - umm we invaded their country and they didn't want us there in the first place and yes they would love to have the autonomy to govern themselves again.

There are protests in Soul South Korea on a regular basis concerning the American military presence in South Korea some 50 some-odd years after halt to hostilities in that area - Of course that war never really ended - no treaty signed, just a stand-off at the DMZ and very few in the American public understand how close we are to reinstating hostilities between the two sides at some points in time.

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