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To: Joe NYC who wrote (204196)9/28/2004 1:58:41 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572920
 
Afganistan was a completely different situation than Iraq.
Apples and Oranges.

There were some obvious goals for Afganistan, like getting the Taliban and getting Osama Bin Laden. They could have been working on plans for nation building while they got Osama and there would have been plenty of international help in the process.

In Iraq there was no threat, so there was nothing to attack to eliminate a threat. Instead the Iraqi people have been the ones who are making plans while Junior and Cheney are going "Mission Accomplished - Now what?".

TP

It's been 1107 days since Bush said he'd catch Osama bin Laden 'Dead or Alive!'



To: Joe NYC who wrote (204196)9/28/2004 4:23:10 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572920
 
It would have been vastly better to clean up Afganistan and Central Asia before taking on completely optional wars.

That does not address the point that there was far less planning for the war in Afghanistan, and if we waited and planned the way the Monday morning quarterbacks say we should have for Iraq, Taliban would still be in power.

Why wasn't there solid planning for Iraq?


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