The Ramadan Offensive

Washington Post ^ | 10/29/03 | Editorial

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

...Yet it would be wrong for the United States to conclude, as its enemies no doubt hope it will, that the time has come to embrace an exit strategy. There is no basis to believe that the U.S. goals of stabilizing Iraq under a representative government cannot be achieved. In much of the country there is little violence and coalition authorities have the support of most of the population. Even in Baghdad, there has been measurable progress in recent months: More power is on, the curfew is lifted, streets and shops are usually full. Most important, the coalition authority and most Iraqis share the same goal: to transfer authority to a sovereign government and replace U.S. forces with Iraqis as quickly as can be done safely. The enemy offers not an attractive alternative but an agenda of viciousness embodied in the attacks on the humanitarian workers of the United Nations and International Red Cross. This is the brutal trademark of al Qaeda or Saddam Hussein, whose return on the heels of departing U.S. troops is the future Iraqis fear most.

President Bush summed up the situation and his response yesterday in a pithy phrase: "It's dangerous because the terrorists want us to leave, and we're not leaving."...

[Ditto]

Yikes! This from the Washington Post editorial board!!!! Those sun spots must be doing something.

[Arkie2]

Common sense from the Washington Post?

[illumini]

If we do this, we sould redraw the borders as England did. Then seize and keep the oil fields of Iraq and all the Gulf States. I just read "Sleeping With The Devil" by Robert Baer, and am not impressed with the institutions of any government or think tank to date. All influential organizations are lead by men who are bought by Saudi and Arab-Gulf-states money. Forget partisan politics, this is about AMERICA.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

The Post also backed Bush on the invasion.

The interesting thing would be, if Dean gets the Dem nomination. Would it, if reluctantly, endorse Bush? I think there's a chance.

[q_an_a]

they say something nice twice a year to prove there is no bias.

[Right_in_Virginia]

It's worth reading the entire editorial. TWP tries to back pedal, but even they had a hard time doing so.

One can only conclude that TWP agrees with the President that "we're not leaving" is the right course.

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