San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday Jan. 16, front page. "Iraq refugee crisis exploding. 40% of middle class believed to have fled crumbling nation"
The destruction of the professional and middle class in Iraq can only bode ill for any hope of a stable democracy. These people are the glue that holds a country together. As the situation worsens, more and more of the backbone of the country will flee in search of a better life.
The people that remain in Iraq will be the poor and the radical. The radicals will find that the ranks of the poor are fertile ground for the growth of the terrorist movement.
Thus has Bush and his neocon cohorts insured a continual war that means a further rise in the power and influence of the military class in this country to the eventual diminishment of our freedom and economic well-being.
A monster has been created, and may in time devour both sides of the conflict.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/01/16/MNG2MNJBIS1.DTL
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