Hopefully this is an auspicious, new beginning for Iraq; only time will tell. It does not mean, Mr. Bush, that we should now condone the war that led to this point, or any war. War is always a terrible thing, and the consequences of this war will continue for a long time. What is really needed is to find ways to (nonviolently) break the worldwide cycle of violence.
Added the following 12/16/2005:
The most popular comments here seem also to be the most onesided and singleminded cheers for the war and all. Assuming this is not orchestrated by anyone, I think people are forgetting all the hell that has transpired and the lies that led to the war. I don't have space for a laundry list. Let us hope for the success of democracy in Iraq, but let us not tumble headlong into militarism, but consider also the successes of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, and Dennis Kucinich's proposal for a Department of Peace.
I may not have phrased this perfectly; "success" is meant to refer to Gandhi and King, whereas Kucinich's proposal has not happened -- yet. Just looking at the other comments surrounding my first one, I'd noticed that those with 25 or 30 "recommendations" did seem to be of the sort I described in my second comment, and of course I wouldn't put it past Karl Rove to try to stack discussion groups to some extent, similarly to excluding "antis" from Bush rallies and providing fake pro-Bush protesters after the 2000 election in Florida.
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