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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: TimF who wrote (74534)7/2/2008 7:03:16 PM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (1) of 543440
 
Tim;

Again, we aren't rolling tanks up to the president and oil minister and making them sign

That is exactly what we did. Rolled up with tanks and let the country drift into such havoc that they had no longer any choice.

Al Qaeda was a severe problem in Iraq,

Not before we were there it wasn't. You are picking a condition created by the havoc we created - and then suggest since it is a little better than the worse - it's improving. Would you have been this patient had Bill Clinton messed things up this bad? How about if Obama takes office and things still are a mess after four years - will you be willing right now to accept that as progress?

its not like the country is going to hell in a hand basket

What is it you want to accomplish in Afghanistan? We have been there going on 7 years and things aren't better - they are worse. If after another 7 years of a democratic government things are still going downhill, will you still be willing to suggest that ...."things aren't going to hell in a hand basket"? We have to have a mission there - do the mission - and come home.

steve
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