SLIGHT UPDATE ON PREVIOUS ENTRY

Before 2006 ended:

Associated Press
U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq Hit 3,000
By The Associated Press 12.31.06, 7:46 PM ET


Do we really want to be in a country of Islamist Fanatics we only enable by being there?

Kurds, who are not Arabs, want their own country, are pro-western and moderate. We are welcome there.

In Iraq, we get nothing but what we paid for - a new, powerful trans-Iranian (i.e. Persian) Islamist Theocratic Empire that threatens now to stretch, under Bush administration policies, from Lebanon on the Mediterranian Sea to the borders of the Indian SubContinent.