Iraq

Steve Harrison opposes the war in Iraq and calls for the immediate withdrawal of forces, consistent with our troops' safety.

He says, "The Bush administration has not articulated a rationale for the continuation of this war. The current objective is not clear and the original reasons given by the Bush administration for the war were proven false. Why they were false -- lies or incompetence -- is beside the point. They were false nonetheless. There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11. So there is no basis to continue."

Although replacing Saddam Hussein's tyranny with democracy is a worthy goal, we cannot want to create a democratic Iraq more than the Iraqis themselves.

Steve believes, regardless of any immediate causes, that America"s need for oil was the driving force behind the invasion of Iraq. This is why energy independence must be a key component of foreign policy as well as domestic policy.

Steve continues, "This war represents the Bush administrations policy of national offense unrelated to a policy of national defense. The purpose of a strong national defense is to avoid wars, not start them."

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