U.S. troops find possible terror training camp
"U.S. Army commanders say they have discovered more than a dozen barrels of chemicals in an agricultural facility 30 miles northeast of here that have tested positive as blister and nerve agents."
Though the US and members of our country's executive staff still stand to profit personally from this war, and though this war has been planned since the late 1990s and 9/11 provided the excuse, and though it is hypocritical to go after Hussein in the name of liberating the people of Iraq when American freedoms are being increasingly repressed, much of my conjecture has now been proven wrong.
Yes, Iraq has chemical weapons. Of course, I'd like to know where they got those weapons -- the US? France? Russia?
Yes, Iraq is harboring terrorists. Some are even claiming that this training camp is where the 9/11 hijackers learned their tricks, though NewsMax.com makes Fox News look like The Guardian, so I wouldn't trust them. However, the initial assertion that terrorists train there is true.
I erred on the side of peace. I still feel comfortable with that choice. I still wish there were a peaceful solution to all of this. Lots of Iraqi civilians, the same people we are there to liberate, have been killed. Though the reported number of civilian casualties differs depending on which side of the political spectrum, it is safe to say that nearly 1,000 innocent Afghan civilians have died as a result of American attacks. When this "War on Terrorism" is all said and done, America and its coalition of the bribed will have killed more innocent civilians than were killed on 9/11. Mark my words.
Plus, the US still seems all too eager to profit from this war.
And, for God's sake, a tax cut will not help the poor.
I still have a lot to be angry about. There are still a lot of issues to which I can take this administration to task. Two assertions that I thought were lies, however, have turned out to be true. I'm not too proud to admit that I was wrong.


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