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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (226697)3/28/2005 3:29:35 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (3) of 1576385
 
Each of those quotes sounds accurate in that the conflict did only last weeks and not months. I don't read into those quotes that US forces will leave Iraq within weeks, but that the fighting against a foreign military will be over within weeks, which it was.

That's a ridiculous conclusion to reach.

Well I just read the quotes and that was the conclusion I reached. It doesn't seem so ridiculous to me. Common sense would say the US is not going to invade another country and then have zero presence in that country after 2 months. I think my conclusion is the common sense conclusion. Your conclusion is perhaps the partisan (surprise, surprise) conclusion?

Those quotes were said when the American public did not want to invade Iraq. They were intended to allay concerns that the war would be long one. There was never any talk about a potential insurgency. When it was brought up by the media, it was ignored by the Bushies.

In my opinion the war in Iraq ended about 4-6 weeks after the invasion began, once the coalition stopped fighting the Iraqi army.

Read into them.......that was what people were intended to do.

I'm pretty sure the common administration response to the "how long will the US be in Iraq?" question has been "as long as it takes, and not a day longer". It was not 4 weeks!
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