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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Dan B. who wrote (74696)	3/22/2006 9:09:30 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) of 81568

Now you're changing the subject from reasons to execute pre-emptive war to whether or not we should withdraw from a wrongheaded war. Powell cautioned Bush when he said "If you break it you own it". Well we broke it and now we own it. I found myself in that 60% of people who did not want immediate withdrawal for the first two years of this war. However it's clear to me now that we cannot do anymore good for Iraq than we have so far. Even Bush said yesterday that troops will be in Iraq as long as he is in the whitehouse. He says he's optimistic, that he has a plan, and he wouldn't put folks in harms way if he didn't think he could succeed. He's so optimistic that things will work out that it will have to be resolved on the next guy's watch? Another three years of occupation is what the president called for. He didn't describe the plan. He didn't say what he considered success. He simply said he's gonna keep the troops in Iraq as long as he's the president. I am convinced that if we wanted to, we could ready the Iraqi Army to do their own security in one to two years time. We are now at three years and Bush forsees at least three more years of war. This tells me that the job of readying Iraqis to take over is being given a very low priority. Just look at the budget for readying the Iraqis. It's not enough to get the job done...that is obvious looking back three years...and the president says...three more years ahead is not enough. We should commit to preparing the Iraqis to provide their own security within one year. It's criminal that this has not been accomplished in the last three years. We should begin phased withdrawal immediately. Within 6 months 75% of the troops in Iraq should be redeployed outside Iraq. In the following 6 months the remaining 25% should be pulled out, and the Iraqi forces should be in complete command. All of this should have been accomplished by now already. Bush and Rumsfeld have shown themselves to be completely incompetent. The war was bad policy to begin with. The Bush Iraq plan has failed to accomplish what Bush said was his goal. That is when the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down. That's Bush's talk, but he has not assigned the resources to get the job done. I hold Bush personally responsible for this mess we are in. I hold him responsible for not doing what he said he would do, which is turn it over to the Iraqis. Orca

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