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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (192475)1/10/2007 10:46:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 794366
 
If there are 20,000 or 30,000 troops available, they might as well help in Iraq.

The idea that more troops will just make more targets is daft. More troops will also SELECT more targets, and I bet the opposition does NOT like the idea of that. More troops means fewer interstices for the opposition to hide in.

If more troops will just make more targets, then the implication is that the troops are being defeated, and that the number of troops there now is too many, and that fewer would mean fewer targets, and that they should sound the retreat, and admit defeat [calling it victory if they like, the same as Saddam did after retreating from Kuwai].

The main problem is presumably who to support. Should it be Shiite murderers on behalf of Sadr and the Iranian Islamic Jihadists, or Sunni murderers, who the USA has gone to great efforts to overthrow.

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