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Politics : The Castle
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To: American Spirit who wrote (1780)7/3/2003 5:12:47 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 7936
 
Why would any Iraqis admit they want the US gone? They'd be afraid of being rounded up as a suspect in attacks.

Some of them might have such fears but they wouldn't be rational ones.

his kind of poll is a bit gratifying but I sincerely doubt only 17% of Iraqis want us gone.

I think the majority wants us gone, eventually. But I think that only a minority want us out immediately without any time to create a new Iraqi government. That minority could be as low as 17%.

Bush says "bring it on!" but that was a really stupid thing to say.

I can see how it sound like that but not everyone agrees.

"Thursday, July 03, 2003

"BRING THEM ON": No, I don't think it's merely rhetoric. One of the many layers of the arguments for invading Iraq focused on the difficulties of waging a serious war on terror from a distant remove. Being based in Iraq helps us not only because of actual bases; but because the American presence there diverts terrorist attention away from elsewhere. By confronting them directly in Iraq, we get to engage them in a military setting that plays to our strengths rather than to theirs'. Continued conflict in Iraq, in other words, needn't always be bad news. It may be a sign that we are drawing the terrorists out of the woodwork and tackling them in the open."

andrewsullivan.com
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