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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (301013)8/23/2006 3:51:25 PM
From: RMF  Read Replies (1) of 1583685
 
"the alt. plan is to get your butt out"

That's the type of simplistic thinking that got us in there in the first place.

So...let's say we just pull out and the Iranians say they have to calm the chaos on their borders and protect the Shiite population of Iraq by moving 200,000 troops into Iraq.
I guess we'd just live with Iran becoming the new defacto ruler of Iraq? We certainly couldn't do anything militarilly to stop it after we had just removed our troops from the area.

Along with the Iranians coming in we might also see the Turks coiming in from the north to quell Kurd insurgent groups from using Iraqi bases as staging areas.

It's EASY to come up with BLACK and WHITE answers to complex problems.

As we've learned from the Bush administration, what may appear black and white is usually many many shades of gray.
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