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To: Road Walker who wrote (253769)	10/4/2005 6:21:55 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574004

I think there's a lot more hope than Vietnam, because it is Deja Vu. THIS war had protestors before it even started. It's frustrating to see the same mistakes being made, same rationalizations and excuses being put forward to continue. It'll end sooner, because we HAVE been here before. Those of us who went through the Vietnam era KNOW it. It's our job to convince those who didn't of the costly blunder. The military will NEVER pull the plug, unless ORDERED to.

To: Road Walker who wrote (253769)	10/5/2005 2:47:01 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574004

There are so many excuses... "there will be a blood bath", "we will look weak if we lose the war", "the communists (in Iraq it's terrorists) will overrun the region", "I don't want to be the first American president (in Iraq, second) to lose a war"... It's a hell of a lot easier to start a war than to quit one. It's real easy to "stay the course". It takes courage to admit a mistake. Yup. Meanwhile people just put it out of their heads and go on with their lives. However, if the people rose up and demanded the war be ended yesterday, the chicken-livered idiots in DC would have those troops home asap. Its infuriating. Until this war and Bush, I had never hated the elite of this country as much as I do now. They are worthless sycophants. ted

To: Road Walker who wrote (253769)	10/5/2005 7:58:52 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1574004

It's a hell of a lot easier to start a war than to quit one. It's real easy to "stay the course". It takes courage to admit a mistake. First of all, the "war" is over. Second of all, the plan appears to be a referendum on the constitution in a few weeks, followed by a 2nd national election in about three months. One would hope that after that, a plan for US withdrawal (at least from police activities and hunt-and-kill operations) would begin fairly soon, say in Q2:06. That sound OK with you? It does to me. It certainly sounds preferable to "all coalition forces bivouac their way to Kuwait and then home starting October 6th", and any coalition member not out of Iraq-proper by October 9th (4 days from today) is on his own! That seems to be your proposal, which doesn't sounds like a good idea. You are not anti-war, the war portion is over....