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To: Brumar89 who wrote (2421)	7/17/2007 10:26:25 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

Seems like we are doing now what we should have done 4 years ago. 6 months after the Mission Accomplished banner went up the US should have been please to remove Saddam from power, and left. George Bush could be focusing all his time on immigration reform and universal health care, some strongman would be in charge of Iraq, and the US would have a massive surplus projected. Militaries destroy opposing armies, they don't build roads and civil societies.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (2421)	7/17/2007 6:07:38 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

<Seems like we are doing now what we should have done 4 years ago> What we should have done five years ago is either not invade Iraq or invade only if we could round up a force double the size of the one we had. The only way to go in with 250,000 plus soldiers was to round up a real global coalition instead of the farce of a coalition that we had. We needed 50,000 troops from Europe, 50,000 from India, 25,000 more of our own and another 25,000 from around the region that could speak the language -- and that is at a minimum. But Bush could not do that because it did not suit Cheney's 'up your ass' approach to 'diplomacy', and Bush did little more than play at being President. What we should be doing now is not what we should have been doing four years ago. What we should be doing now is evaluating what you do when you finally come to the point where you can no longer pretend that you are fighting some war that you are going to 'win' if you just keep going the way you are.