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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SecularBull who wrote (461350)	9/18/2003 10:48:14 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I am definitely highly impressed with the overall performance of our troops. The initial campaign was extremely effective, with a very low number of casualties on our side. Our troops are also performing admirably in these conditions. I would imagine it would be very difficult to maintain sanity and not start shooting everything in sight given the circumstances. However, I think our troops were placed in a terrible position. They were told that they would be there for a short campaign, and the troop levels would drop to 50,000 by now. They were told that the Iraqis would greet them as liberators, by our own VP. They were told that they would find WMD and destory Al Qaeda cells working with Saddam. None of this has turned out to be true. Instead, they face seemingly endless deployments in an extremely hostile environment where there is an increasingly hostile populace. There is no exit plan, little international involvement, and not enough troops to secure what needs to be secured. In short, we've put our troops into an impossible position. I'm impressed with our military, but decidedly unimpressed with our 'leadership'.