http://www.crankypot.com/2008/05/18/next-president-will-have-an-easy-job/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:41:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.crankypot.com/2008/05/18/next-president-will-have-an-easy-job/#comment-7796 Fyodor Thu, 22 May 2008 19:14:04 +0000 http://www.crankypot.com/?p=170#comment-7796 I completely agree. I think that if you put a five year old in the Oval Office, he would do a better job. Although one thing that worries me is Iraq. If Obama starts withdrawing troops (and I know we have to do it eventually), there really is a serious potential for a horrific civil war. The US has been arming Sunny militias and giving them money in return for their promise not to shoot at the Shiites, but the Sunnies have been preparing for an American pullout which might be interpreted by the Shiites as a signal to start ethnically cleansing the Sunnies. This in fact might pull in Saudi Arabia, a staunch ally of the Iraqi Sunnis. So, can you imagine if President Obama orders a pull out and this happens. The world will say: America fucked up and all they want to do now is leave, causing this massacre. On the other hand, if we don't live, things will get worse or remain as bad as now, with no end in sight. And the world will say: "America is still occupying Iraq and drenching it in blood." My point is, whatever the next President does in Iraq, it will not be a pretty sight and it will take generations for this stain to blur on the face of America. Shame on you Bush! I completely agree. I think that if you put a five year old in the Oval Office, he would do a better job. Although one thing that worries me is Iraq. If Obama starts withdrawing troops (and I know we have to do it eventually), there really is a serious potential for a horrific civil war. The US has been arming Sunny militias and giving them money in return for their promise not to shoot at the Shiites, but the Sunnies have been preparing for an American pullout which might be interpreted by the Shiites as a signal to start ethnically cleansing the Sunnies. This in fact might pull in Saudi Arabia, a staunch ally of the Iraqi Sunnis. So, can you imagine if President Obama orders a pull out and this happens. The world will say: America fucked up and all they want to do now is leave, causing this massacre. On the other hand, if we don’t live, things will get worse or remain as bad as now, with no end in sight. And the world will say: “America is still occupying Iraq and drenching it in blood.” My point is, whatever the next President does in Iraq, it will not be a pretty sight and it will take generations for this stain to blur on the face of America. Shame on you Bush!

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