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To: Elroy who wrote (204012)9/26/2004 10:02:00 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572507
 
What's going on now in Iraq is not a war, and its misleading to call it a war.

You keep repeating this. But we're talking semantics. People are fighting and dying for this cause or that, I call it a war.

1- It should never have been allowed to get to the level that it is today (example of Bush administration poor execution),

Unfortunately, it couldn't have been helped. No matter what we did, the potential for this to occur was there and could not have been prevented.

and 2- it may continue for decades unless checked

I suppose that's possible, but based on the numbers of people who are involved in it it doesn't seem likely. I think we'll likely step up the level of violence we use against it, and I suspect that will solve it. The fact is most of the country is secure.

and 3- checking it will require massive, massive Iraqi and coalition deaths. I don't think the American people want to see 50,000 coalition casualties and 1 million Iraqi "terrorist/civilian/who really knows" casualties over the next decade

Oh, crap. Here we go again. You sound like a liberal.