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Thanks, scoop and FW!
Scoop, thanks as always. That's exactly the flaw in the get-us-out-now-at-all-costs thinking. We are obligated to finish the job over there, call it winning the war or call it repairing the damage. The libs want neither so as to make America look as bad as possible; if we pull out as they demand we do, guess who will be first to condemn us for not completing our work there? I would add that staying the course in Iraq concerning terrorism works so long as the terrorists keep jumping into our meat grinder there.
FW, here's a quote from Rep. Murtha: "We cannot continue on the present course . . . Our troops have become the primary target of the insurgency. It's time to bring them home." What part of this does not translate to "immediate"? (By the way, I am proud beyond words of our rookie representative from Ohio, Jeanne Schmidt, for calling Rep. Murtha and those for whom he claimed to speak on the cowardice of his words.)
And if you think our military is good for nothing for target practice, then your thinking is flawed from the start, my friend. Don't complain about anyone else misprepresenting intelligence or the like when you make a remark as ridiculous as that.
posted by
WriterofLight
on November 21, 2005 at 7:23 PM
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Who called for an "immediate" withdrawl????
Not the Democrats. They called for a timeline, a timetable. It was the Chicken Hawks who proposed withdrawing immediately. OK GOP, you got the troops there, you have them staying... what is your strategy now??? Keep them there and to be used as target practice because you're too obstinate to admit the mission was flawed from the start???
posted by
fwmystic
on November 20, 2005 at 6:06 PM
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WoL your first sentence says it all
If we were wrong in invading Iraq, if we made such a mess of the country, then do we not have a responsibility to make it right?
We did mess up and we must take responsibility for our actions.
It seems to me things got worse after the first six month and has gone down hill ever since. We actually had very little resisitance in the begining. But the longer we stayed the worse it got and continues that way today. Life for the Iraqi people is hell because the insurgents hate us, the U.S., so bad and want to kill our servicemen and women but at the same time innocent Iraqis are being slaughtered because of our being there.
It is like I explained in another comment, our invasion was like a bad police raid on a house where nothing is found because of bad information in the warrant. The police fix the door, say they are sorry and leave. We, the U.S. kicked down the door, found nothing, but instead of saying we made a mistake and leave, we stay and now are just four months away from three years of occupation, and in my opinion, nothing to show for it.
Meanwhile al-Zarqawi now has 24 different terrorist groups in 40 countries, so how does staying the course in Iraq any longer help the fight on terror?
posted by
scoop
on November 20, 2005 at 8:52 AM
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