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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: techguerrilla who wrote (25627)8/17/2003 12:30:21 PM
From: Rarebird  Read Replies (2) of 89467
 
President Bush is terminally STUCK.

In Iraq, there is now a rolling wave of reports that Muslim fighters from all over the rest of the Muslim world are heading to Iraq to wage war against the US occupiers. Their rallying war cry is that this is what they did to the former USSR - and won.

With 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, this development means that the US occupation of Iraq is totally unviable and that the US strategic bottom has already fallen out. From this point on, the US Iraq enterprise is only a prescription for an endless drain upon the resources of the United States. Any other Muslim nation outside Iraq is a sanctuary for training camps for Muslim fighters. To shut these down, the US would need to cross borders, expanding the US zones of occupation and therefore also the areas where more Muslims can shoot at Americans.

Doubling the US force in Iraq (which cannot be done, the US army does not have the means) would only double the number of American targets. Halving the force would risk spontaneous Iraqi mass public uprisings.

Pulling out of Iraq cannot be done before the next presidential election. If it WAS done, it would lead to an unimaginable political debacle inside Washington as well as the United States itself. The Bush regime is stuck.
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