Iraq Wants us Out
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Iraq Wants us Out
| Fri, 11-07-2008 - 6:31am |
It's funny how what Iraq wanted, rarely entered the presidential debates in this election.
| Fri, 11-07-2008 - 6:31am |
It's funny how what Iraq wanted, rarely entered the presidential debates in this election.
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).
That is so appropriate.
Yes it is sad.
We should leave on a schedule that the generals agree too
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Chrissy
mom to Aidan 8/21/03
Grayson Blaine 12/30/07
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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