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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: JakeStraw who wrote (13598)4/9/2004 12:17:56 PM
From: CalculatedRiskRead Replies (2) of 81568
 
We should not leave Iraq; we should adopt Kerry's plan. This is being seconded supported in editorials and commentaries around the World.

Friedman (a war supporter) wrote this piece yesterday:
Are There Any Iraqis in Iraq?
nytimes.com

Friedman concluded with: "From the day the looting started in Baghdad, it has been obvious that we did not have enough troops to create a secure framework and to control Iraq's borders. As a result, local militias began to spring up everywhere. If you turn on your TV, you can see how well armed they became while Donald Rumsfeld was insisting we had enough troops there to control Iraq.

I know the right thing to do now is to stay the course, defeat the bad guys, disarm the militias and try to build a political framework that will hold the now wavering Shiite majority on our side — because if we lose them, the game is over. But this will take time and sacrifice, and the only way to generate enough of that is by enlisting the U.N., NATO and all of our allies to make the development of a decent state in Iraq a global priority.

Without more allies, without more global legitimacy — and without an Iraqi center ready to stand up against their Khmer Rouge now posing as their Viet Cong — we cannot win in Iraq. We will be building a house with bricks and no cement. In that case, we will have to move to Plan B. Too bad we never really had Plan A."

Yes, Bush should adopt the Kerry plan.
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