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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (16953)	8/6/2009 1:29:33 PM
From: TideGlider	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

"Crap" is his life! How dare you insult "crap". He has lived, breathed and posted "crap" for years. When he dies loyal others will create a loosely formed statute of "crap" on his grave.

To: jlallen who wrote (16953)	8/6/2009 3:27:49 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

Re: "we were not reckless getting into Iraq....must you post such crap." Going against the advice of all the 'salty dogs' and experienced foreign policy hands from the first Bush administration was certainly raising the risk profile more then a bit.... And then THROWING OUT all the meticulous and detailed planning that the US government had done (a 2 to 3 year long inter-agency effort of the Pentagon, State Department, Intelligence Services, WH, etc.) had worked up for the post war occupation of Iraq... throwing it all out the window and going with some sketchy half-baked 'we will be greeted as liberators and create a Randian paradise' so-called 'plan', dreamed up by a clique of 'Neo-Con's who mostly had absolutely no practical experience with, or knowledge of, actual conditions on the ground in Iraq, just a month and a half before the invasion's launch... *well THAT was certainly* running a HUMONGOUS RISK**. And, one that, (as the entire world knows now), blew up spectacularly in our faces and caused tremendous harm and costs in blood and national treasure to America....