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In reply to the discussion: Fuck. [View all]Vattel
(9,289 posts)Because of you -- because you sacrificed so much for a people that you had never met, Iraqis have a chance to forge their own destiny. Thats part of what makes us special as Americans. Unlike the old empires, we dont make these sacrifices for territory or for resources. We do it because its right. There can be no fuller expression of Americas support for self-determination than our leaving Iraq to its people. That says something about who we are.
Read the quote. "Because you sacrificed so much for a people you had never met" (i.e. because our soldiers made the sacrifice of serving in Iraq) "Iraqis have a chance to forge their own destiny" (i.e., Iraqis have a chance at self-determination aka freedom). "Unlike the old empires, we don't make these sacrifices for territory or for resources. We do it because it is right" (If that doesn't imply that our fighting in Iraq was right, I don't know what does.)
Of course the focus of the speech was about leaving Iraq, but the specific remarks here were about the sacrifices our armed forces made to give Iraqis "a chance to forge their own destiny." A first grade level of reading comprehension is all that is required to see that.
Sorry about the link. That was not the link to the transcript I read. It did have the specific quote, though, which is all I used from it. Of course you want to suggest that I must be interested in pushing rightwing lies, but most people will see through that little bit of sleaziness on your part.