{"id":602,"date":"2006-12-28T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=602"},"modified":"2006-12-28T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T11:31:09","slug":"should-i-stay-or-should-i-go-us-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"Should I Stay or Should I Go:  US in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that it\u00b4s time that United States learns from the way anti American pseudo democrats are dealing with democracy to suit their own political objectives.   Democratically elected leader Ahmadinejad is a master at getting Iranian voters to back him in his anti American agenda.  So why doesn\u00b4t America use the same method to legitimize the Iraqi invasion?   <\/p>\n<p>I think USA should run the <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/gary.hart\/lyricsc\/clash.html\">Should I stay or Should I go<\/a> referendum in Iraq.  Instead of having yet <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20061228\/pl_nm\/bush_iraq_dc_1\">another meeting<\/a> to discuss in Washington what should happen in Iraq, USA should ask the Iraqi people what they want them to do in Iraq.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI envision a very concrete referendum, something like, &#8220;should we pull out by April 1st or stay another year to help Iraq democracy succeed?&#8221;   If the majority asks America to stay another year, then the invasion is legitimized.  If, instead, they ask America to leave, then America says &#8220;mission accomplished, when we came Iraq was led by a genocidal dictator, we brought this dictator to justice, established the principles of democracy and now we leave&#8221;.  And America will save thousands of lives and billions of dollars.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"saddam arena.bmp\" src=\"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/saddam%20arena.bmp\" width=\"558\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=602\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that it\u00b4s time that United States learns from the way anti American pseudo democrats are dealing with democracy to suit their own political objectives. Democratically elected leader Ahmadinejad is a master at getting Iranian voters to back him in his anti American agenda. So why doesn\u00b4t America use the same method to legitimize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-ideas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=602\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky in English\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Should I 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