I will not minimize the terrible things that are happening in Iraq, but I am CONVINCED that all you all hear is the bad stuff and none of the good. I'm confident that ya'll believe that people such as myself are naive...we are not! Yes, some Kurdish groups may be financed by the US (governmental and private) because who else will help them? Russia, France, Iran, Turkey???? We want to see them succeed and prosper. They suffered long enough and if you say they did because of the US, then I say, consider the times. No one is omniscient.

And the only reason you might believe that there is "more pain......" is because the world didn't care about what was going on there before and turned a ...

I will not minimize the terrible things that are happening in Iraq, but I am CONVINCED that all you all hear is the bad stuff and none of the good. I'm confident that ya'll believe that people such as myself are naive...we are not! Yes, some Kurdish groups may be financed by the US (governmental and private) because who else will help them? Russia, France, Iran, Turkey???? We want to see them succeed and prosper. They suffered long enough and if you say they did because of the US, then I say, consider the times. No one is omniscient.

And the only reason you might believe that there is "more pain......" is because the world didn't care about what was going on there before and turned a blind eye. The world media didn't have the region under a microscope then as it does now that the evil US is there.

Sometimes I wish we were more isolationist. Let the World go to hell in a hand-basket. I'm safe, my family is safe, we have food on the table and no terrorists at our door. But that's not how we think, contrary to CNN!