It's time to withdraw troops

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http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/opinion/16154601.htm

In 1789, George Washington issued the first national Thanksgiving proclamation. After giving "sincere and humble thanks" for the many blessings our young country had enjoyed, he urged Americans to "unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions."

If Washington were alive to express those sentiments today, he'd be pilloried by Bill O'Reilly as a member of the "Blame America First Club." National transgressions? Who, us?

But, yes, even the U.S.A. screws up sometimes. The invasion of Iraq, for instance, will go down in history as a national transgression of epic proportions -- and our original screw-up (an unjustified invasion based on cooked intelligence books) was compounded many times over by our failure to plan for the reconstruction of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq.

I visited Iraq in August 2003, back when it was still possible to believe that some good would come out of the U.S. invasion. True, we hadn't found any weapons of mass destruction -- but Saddam was out, and ordinary Iraqis were eager to embark on a freer and more prosperous future. On the pedestal that had once supported the famous statue of Saddam (toppled in April 2003 by jubilant Iraqis, with a little help from U.S. troops), an Iraqi graffiti artist left the Americans a pointed message, written in blood-red paint: "ALL DONNE GO HOME."

We should have done just that.

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1. All done go home -- mission accomplised

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2. September 11th Anthrax and American Airlines Flight 11

The Anthrax that killed the 5 People came from Al Qeada(the
house diagonal from mine), I was con-fronted by the Muslim
that lives diagonal from my house on August 20th, 2001---the
following night I was exposed to Anthrax in front of his house
the following night(August 21st,2001). I saw Mo-hammed Atta
leaving the Library around the corner from my house in the
beginning of 2001 in the Red Car with the 3D's. Waleed Shehri
was at the house diagonal from mine regularly. I put 2+2
together and talked tp someone who saw Waleed with kids at the
Mall a mile down the road from my Back Yard. The last time I
saw the kids was about 2 weeks before the 9/11 attacks. 10001
West Atlantic Blvd. is 2-1/2 blocks down from my
backyard(ad-dress on the News). I was in the Garage diagonal
from my House in the end of May 2001 while Waleed was getting
his hair cut, for about 10 minutes. In case you don't know
Waleed Shehri was on Ameri-can Airlines Flight 11 on September
11th, 2001. I am trying to make this short, so I will finish
this at another session!!!