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

To: PartyTime who wrote (485137)	11/2/2003 8:36:39 AM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I don't read every thread; if you want to refer to other threads here or the arguments made, you'll have to cite specific items. What exactly is the current policy that "won't win the peace?" I haven't seen you or any of your brand articulate the case. Just a lot of conclusions, allegations, and FUD. You guys want it both ways: You claim we haven't won the war, it's still going on. Yet, in the next breath you grouse that we lost the peace. What peace? You gotta win the war, first. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, it appears that the "Mission Accomplished" banner flown on the aircraft carrier was premature as to Iraq. However, at the time, it looked like there would be little or no resistance. It's easy to see why everybody, the Administration, Congress, our allies, and the world alike, were optimistic and had good reason to believe that the cleanup and rebuilding could start right away. However, it also appears that the major military battles are long over. Guerilla bombings, pockets of resistance, and infiltrators from Syria, Saudi Arabia, or elsewhere since the occupation, are deadly and cause for concern, are handled on a case-by-case basis, not with B-52 strikes on columns of soldiers. So, we're somewhere between war and peace in Iraq, I think. Some days will be better, and some will be worse than others until the peace is won. As to trumpeting, I don't hear trumpets, do you? I hear an Administration clearly saying that Iraq is a dangerous place, that there's work to be done, and that they're going about doing it.