Why should it be the job of US troops to meddle in a country we know
nothing about and the only beneficiaries are big war profiteers like
Haliburton and Bechtel? If we spent half of the money we've spent in
Iraq on developing renewable energy resources in this country we could
stop using foreign oil entirely, start reversing air polution that
causes tens of thousands of premature deaths every year and help
reverser global warming. Is our outlook so limited and so negative that
we think American ingenuity cannot find a better way than total
dependence on Big Oil? There is a far better energy future in new
companies and new jobs developing new energy sources right here in this
country. We have nothing to gain in Iraq and everything to lose. And
spreading democracy has nothing to do with it. Democracy is on the ropes
in this country and we should be spending our efforts to help people
learn what real democracy is.

We are making enemies in the Arab world faster than we can kill them.