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Needed: A strategy for an exit from Iraq [barf alert + response]
The Hill ^ | November 16, 2005 | Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.)

Posted on 11/16/2005 9:02:56 AM PST by FreeKeys

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To: FreeKeys
First, President Bush should state unequivocally that the United States does not seek and will not maintain permanent military bases in Iraq

Yeah, you dumbass Democrat, let's end up LOSING our overall strategic position in the Gulf because of your pinhead views on national security.

21 posted on 11/16/2005 10:48:01 AM PST by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: Little Ray
Actually, there is a perfectly good exit stategy: Through IRAN.

I love it. That reminds me of a verse to "McNamara's Band" I wrote in '63:

Oh, me name is McNamara, I'm the leader of a band
Of cost-accounting "whiz kids", we're the greatest in the land
Please say that we're the best, the TFX you can't deny
Don't call it a "Flying Edsel" or I'll break right down and cry!

(chorus):
Oh, around Da Nang the bombs go bang
And the guns they blaze away
While we avoid decisions our computers are run today
By Kennedy, Kennedy, Morse and Rusk, Fullbright and Fred Korth
Now none dare say that the only way
Out of Vietnam is north!

22 posted on 11/16/2005 10:48:23 AM PST by FreeKeys ("We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it." -- Marge Simpson)
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To: FreeKeys

The goal in the war on Islamic terrorism should be this and this alone: total victory. And total victory means not having to fear being attacked by our enemies anymore.


25 posted on 11/16/2005 10:54:27 AM PST by jpl
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To: FreeKeys

To sum it all up the exit strategy of the Rats is to cut and run like Billy Jeff did from Mogadishu.
They don't care what happens afterwards


27 posted on 11/16/2005 11:12:26 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Wombat101
Are you say extermination is the answer?

Be honest
28 posted on 11/16/2005 11:19:39 AM PST by commonerX (n)
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To: FreeKeys

I've changed my mind about pulling out of Germany. Next battle in the war on terror may be Battleground Europe, and we need to stay in theater. Much as I hate the idea of pulling the French Chestnuts out again, we have vital interests in the region.


29 posted on 11/16/2005 11:22:19 AM PST by Great Caesars Ghost (Islamism = Islamic Supremacism & = racist ideology, not political.)
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To: trubluolyguy

Just more political grandstanding, posturing, prancing, and posing. They get voluminous reports on the Iraq situation already, and the strategy is more than clear. As Rumsfeld put it, "The Pentagon sends over 900 reports a year to Congress. I hope somebody is reading some of them."


30 posted on 11/16/2005 11:24:19 AM PST by Great Caesars Ghost (Islamism = Islamic Supremacism & = racist ideology, not political.)
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To: blinachka

Senators or Congressmen ride in subway cars? Surely you jest.


31 posted on 11/16/2005 11:25:34 AM PST by Great Caesars Ghost (Islamism = Islamic Supremacism & = racist ideology, not political.)
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To: FreeKeys

Dear Editors:

It is time to cut and run in Iraq.

Bush and virtually every Democrat, world leader, and intelligence agency came to the conclusion that Saddam had WMD. Since Saddam’s WMD have not yet been found, that appears to have been a big, but honest, mistake. Nonetheless, the Democrats’ lie that “Bush Lied,” has stuck with the Average American.

Democrats and the Media have convinced a majority of Americans that 2,000 dead soldiers is too high a price to win what Al Qaeda calls the “Central Front” in the War on Terror. It is immoral risk our troops when the Average American doesn’t believe fighting terrorists is worthwhile.

Rather than waste another soldier’s life defending our freedom against terrorists, let’s follow our Democrat Senators’ advice: cut and run, and turn Iraq over to Al Qaeda in Iraq. Bin Laden can come out of his cave and run the place.

Watching Democrats’ lies and cowardice cause Western Civilization to capitulate to medieval thugs proves Al Qaeda was right; Average Americans are unwilling to defend themselves.

My recommendation: study the Koran. Weak Americans should bow down to their superiors, the Islamofascists who can successfully dictate an American surrender through the Democrat party.

Right?


32 posted on 11/16/2005 11:38:27 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ("Avoid novelties, for every novelty is an innovation, and every innovation is an error. " - Mohammed)
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To: FreeKeys
That reminds me of a verse to "McNamara's Band" I wrote in '63

On second thought, it was more like '66.

33 posted on 11/16/2005 1:25:30 PM PST by FreeKeys (Can John McCain object to the Islamofascists' repression of FREE SPEECH and NOT be a hypocrite??)
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To: Brad Cloven; All
Weak Americans should bow down to their superiors, the Islamofascists who can successfully dictate an American surrender through the Democrat party. Right?

Right.

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams

34 posted on 11/16/2005 1:33:12 PM PST by FreeKeys ("FREEDOM IS NOT FOR THE TIMID." -- posted as an announcement outside a Texas Church 9-17-01)
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To: FreeKeys

Wow! I'll drink (a Sam Adams) to that!

(Changing tag-line)


35 posted on 11/16/2005 1:38:28 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (People unwilling to defend freedom become slaves.)
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To: Great Caesars Ghost

OK...true enough. I suppose only Mayor Bloomberg does that!


36 posted on 11/16/2005 5:04:08 PM PST by blinachka (Vechnaya Pamyat Daddy... xoxo)
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To: commonerX

That was (mostly)sarcasm. As much as I would like to see it happen (I walked out of 1 WTC on 9/11), I know it's not a practical solution.


37 posted on 11/16/2005 10:13:59 PM PST by Wombat101 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to Sh*t since 632 AD...)
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To: FreeKeys

Current military plan is to go to 92K by the end of '06, right?

Isn't that an exit strategy?


38 posted on 11/16/2005 10:16:17 PM PST by Wiseghy (Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. – Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: blinachka
OK...true enough. I suppose only Mayor Bloomberg does that

Yes, I was thinking about that. It's really surprising that he does. Not that it impresses many people I wouldn't think. He doesn't seem to be a big friend of the plebians.

39 posted on 11/17/2005 8:43:58 AM PST by Great Caesars Ghost (Who says we're going to win the War On Terror?)
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