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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (204570)9/28/2006 4:38:51 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"Other than that the US lost to Iran under carter, Cuba under every president since Kennedy, Iraq under Bush I, and in viet Nam and Korea."

You do know what "wars" ARE, don't you Itchy? We haven't had a "war" with Iran or Cuba. We WON Gulf War I, and drove Saddam out of Kuwait. Korea was at least draw, not a loss, as South Korea is till there.

As for winning the current war in Iraq, what does "winning" look like to YOU? If we end up with an Iran-allied government that hates the US and Israel, but it's democratically elected, that costs us hundreds of thousands of lives and a trillion dollars, will we have "won"?

I felt that reason had won against monkey chest-thumping when we walked away from Vietnam. History has proved me right. Leaving that mistaken war behind was a VICTORY for America.
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