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Will Bush exit – or escalate?
World Net Daily ^
| November 19, 2003
| Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted on 11/19/2003 4:35:16 PM PST by FredTownWard
Surely he knows this. Which is why I believe Bush and his War Cabinet may have another strategy in mind, which is this. The president intends to draw down U.S. forces to a hard core of fighters, perhaps 90,000, backed by U.S. air power, a force 15 times as large as the mobile U.S. force in Afghanistan. This force will carry the brunt of battle in a new war against the guerrillas and terrorists, and be less concerned with winning hearts and minds in the Sunni Triangle than killing enemy fighters. Operation Iron Hammer is the dress rehearsal for the new war.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush; exitstrategy; iraq; military; patbuchanan; timetable; victory
Pat Buchanan hasn't been right about much lately. He wasn't even right about the Iraq War. However, I think he has a better understanding of Bush's character than most Iraq War critics, and I think he has correctly guessed Bush's strategy here. The one thing Pat is wrong about here, if I read his implications correctly, is in his thinking the strategy will fail.
To: FredTownWard
That's because Pat sees everything as a failure
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:38:20 PM PST
by
MJY1288
(The Democrats Have Reached Rock Bottom and The Digging Continues)
To: FredTownWard
Smells like ANTI-WAR.COM
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:39:57 PM PST
by
cmsgop
(Why don't you settle down and go buy a Juice Newton Album....)
To: FredTownWard
Old Pundits never die they just fail to shut up....
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:43:04 PM PST
by
woofie
To: FredTownWard
The one thing Pat is wrong about here, if I read his implications correctly, is in his thinking the strategy will fail.
PJB's glass
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:43:51 PM PST
by
deport
To: FredTownWard
The one thing Pat is wrong about here, if I read his implications correctly, is in his thinking the strategy will fail. Pat thinks (or hopes) everything will fail.
Especially if a "Bush" is at the controls.
To: MJY1288
had he been in the cenicle he woulod have found that a failure and he would have put poor Thomas to shame with his (Pat's) doubts. sometime after he lost the second time his whole thinking process wnet down hill. he uses the argumensts of children not wise old men. too bad.
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posted on
11/19/2003 5:18:27 PM PST
by
q_an_a
To: deport
No, just because the war will be long, it doesn't follow that what we are doing is wrong. Some wars are just long, hard slogs.
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posted on
11/19/2003 5:20:42 PM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
("We happy because when we switch on the TV you never see Saddam Hussein. That's a big happy.")
To: FredTownWard
Why have we increased troop strength along the Syrian border to 20,000? If I were Iran or Syria I'd be very concerned that the U.S. has them surrounded and could move against either at will.
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posted on
11/19/2003 6:02:33 PM PST
by
Calamari
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