Dumbass of the week award

mid-morning on Friday, the 2nd of February 2007 by Chad

This one goes out to Charlotte Shedd. Who is too stupid to have ever read a history book. Of course she lives in the neo-hippy commune of Arden in Delaware.

From The News Journal

Divided Iraqis must want democracy for themselvesWe now have a new Congress. The most important thing is to realize with whom we are dealing. Iraqis are not Americans. You cannot export democracy; it must come from within. It took this wonderful country hundreds of years to develop our kind of democracy.

You cannot bomb democracy into a people. They must want it for themselves. We cannot stop the sectarian hatred that Iraqis have for each other.

How many more of our dedicated soldiers must we sacrifice before we say enough?

Charlotte Shedd, Arden

I’m sorry, but I really don’t think you really feel you are part of the “we” are sacrificing.
Have you ever in your entire life heard of the countries Germany and Japan? They were both monarchies or dictatorships. Until something happened… what was it… Oh yeah! We bombed the hell outta ‘em. And kept bombing ‘em. Then rolled in with tanks and troops and fought a very long and very costly war. Then suprise suprise! A few years of policital and social engineering by our troops, and out pops two of the best democracies on the friggin’ planet.