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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (146092)9/21/2004 9:32:45 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Hi carranza2; Re "Bush would be a sitting duck, able to do whatever he wants. Kerry would have no political problems with a withdrawal, too, depending on which side of the bed he awoke on."

Kerry just put out a speech where he announced his plan to win in Iraq. Of course his policy is in all important respects identical to Bush's policy of 2003. That is, Kerry wants to get foreign nations to send troops (just like Bush); Kerry wants to spend money rebuilding Iraq (just like Bush), and Kerry says he won't reduce the troop level for the next year (just like Bush).

Kerry says that he may start removing troops as early as summer of 2005. Given our current casualty rates, it's not unlikely that given Kerry's election, more US soldiers will die in Iraq under his watch than under Bush's.

In comparison, Bush has already learned that it is impossible to get more foreign countries to send more troops, that improving the infrastructure in Iraq simply makes for our having to fight better fed and better equipped guerillas, and that the only function our troops perform well in Iraq is that of targets.

This is why I don't trust Kerry to run Iraq better than Bush in 2005. There's not a dime's worth of difference between their policies except that Bush has already learned his limitations.

-- Carl
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