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To: TimF who wrote (349168)	9/3/2007 2:15:16 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573711

In what "strategic sense" do we lose? In quite a few senses. 1 - Iraq becomes a big haven for anti-US terrorists. It already is a big haven for anti US terrorists even as we have 160K troops on the ground. I suspect there will be less once we leave. 2 - We destroy our credibility. Anyone who might consider supporting us in some future war will think he shouldn't do it, because the US will abandon him after awhile. LMAO! US credibility is shot throughout the world. It will take many years to recover from this disaster. You should have thought of US credibility when we invaded 4 years ago. Now its too late. 3 - We give the jihadis reason to think they have won, and reason to believe that if they are patient and can kill enough Americans we will never stick up to them. More importantly we give reason to potential jihadis to believe this and to admire the jihadis for having defeated the US. They know they have won. Besides, they have bigger issues to worry about........like a thousand year dispute between Sunnis and Shia. Let them fight it out. In the end, we can court the winner. 4 - We give up the gains we have recently been making against the jihadis in Iraq. Read my lips: There are no gains. Its fantasy promulgated by desperate men.