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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (173850)11/18/2005 12:35:27 PM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (6) of 281500
 
When you have a war to remove a brutal dictator who is an enemy of the international community and when the war is won easily, one can be fooled into thinking that the baathist and terrorist enemy wont find much support and that iraqis would rise up to support us. But they didnt and we cant control the violence any longer. Today is another perfect example of that.
So as in Vietnam we get the stay the coursers but there is no course or no good course. Then we get folks who want to throw good money after bad and increase the effort. And then there are the folks like me who called for stated exit dates to both give us an exit strategy and give the good iraqis reaon to fight against the bad terrorists and baathists. But this admin said stay the course. Now with the last iraqi election one month away it all comes down to how they vote and what they will do to defend themselves. I will give them 6 months and then we should withdraw our troops from iraq and to safe locations within the country for the short term. I figure that at a loss of 100 americans per month i am willing to take another 600 caaualties to preserve honor/whatever that means at this point. But no more after 6/30/06. Give the good iraqis some air support, OK but no more US troops in combat. Let them fight each other and if the iraqi taliban is victorious in the sunni areas, so be it. We can then surround and contain them and bomb them to hell if they mess with terror and wmds. At the same time we can support separate shiaa and kurd states. mike
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