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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (446182)8/21/2003 2:32:54 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (3) of 769667
 
Neocon re: "the essential rightness of our cause."

I'd think that would require not only a laudable goal, but also a course of action that has a likelihood of achieving that goal.

I'm certain that YOUR goals for the U.S. presence in Iraq are "right," but our course of action seems poorly designed to achieve our stated goals. The question no one seems to be able to answer is how you "defeat" numbers of determined guerrillas with acess to arms and a willingness to die.

Hint, you have to use such brutal methods on foe and friend alike that the opposition is either killed off or suppressed by the innocent who tire of suffering reprisals. Stalin anyone?

Otherwise you need to get out "sooner rather than later," and leave the Iraqis to find their own solutions.
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