More in Congress want Iraq exit strategy

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"The enemy within is as dangerous as islam, i.e., liberals and liberal media. They're bunch of short-sighted cowards. Wish we could keep "W" for 10 years and get the job done!

As the current Iraq campaign began in '03, my personal opinion was this operation needed at least 10 years to completion.

The battle against the enemy within, the political left and the whore media, is currently pitched and brutal. In my opinion the battle is turning our way. We will take them both with maneuver and attrition. If we stay focused, informed, and confident in our beliefs and utilize sites like FR and others to sharpen our wits. Our strength of character will carry the day.

and our side breeds.

[scars]

I'm with you! Let's get the RINOs out. We're more powerful than we realize, we're just not organized. If some smarter FReeper than I could zero in on these Reps, we could get real Conservatives in the districts that are up for grabs EVERY 2 YEARS.

[jwalsh07]

By all means, let's withdraw from the Middle East, give the bad guys time to gather their forces and marshall their assets and whackjobs and then we can wait for the next 9/11. Think of all the fun that was had pointing fingers and assigning blame with the last idiotic commission.

I mean after all, it's rather obvious that having American warriors chasing their asses down from here to Timbuktu has been futile with the daily attacks suffered by US interests at home and abroad.

[TomasUSMC]

I BELIEVE I agree with you. I don't hear the administration using the words Victory and Winning enough and I sure don't hear it defined. Well the way you define it is you say the "S" word. Surrender!

I do hear the words "Fight, Fighting" and phrases about not quiting, continuing and so on.

Well, you don't go into to a fight to just fight, you go into one to Win. I say we need to attack Syria and Iran now. They are sanctuaries like Laos and Cambodia and N. Vietnam were to enemy troops. Why do we allow them to exsist?

Why are we fighting to set up a government that refuses to grant freedom of Religion and instead names the hideous religion of Islam as its STATE RELIGION?

Let me say that recruiting is a problem for a reason - it because the American people see no progress. Unless we start wupping some serious butt, instead of all this hearts and minds crap, the recruiters are going to have to start grabbing 60 year old vets off the street.

We need a strategy for victory and we need to Yell the "S" word right in the face of the "Arab Street". That strategy needs to be the same one we used in WW2.

Unconditional Surrender - because that is what Islam will demand of US if they win. And if Iran Syria don't surrender, tell them to evacuate Damascus and Tehran, cause they won't be there tomorrow.

[IM2MAD]

I think they should have an exit strategy for ILLEGAL ALIENS IN THE U.S. FIRST

[AntiGuv]

Maybe I'm just not paying attention, but the administration seems to have gone all but silent on Iraq and the WOT lately. That's a big part of the problem right there IMHO.

[AntiGuv]

Of course you know this, but it's worth saying outright, that premature withdrawal from Iraq would be utterly disastrous. My concern is that if things just meander along as they have been lately, the drumbeat will turn into a symphony by the time next year's election draws near..

[Rennes Templar]

This is a good example of the media creating the news vs. reporting it. As with Gitmo, if there's a small public sentiment with a cause, the MSM will give it the appearance of wholesale support.

[M. Espinola]

"The only real Iraq exit strategy is to win the war on terror in Iraq and bring stability there."

Correct!

I would also add, the rouge régimes of Iran & Syria require major governmental alterations from the top down since they continue to export jihadists into Iraq for the sole purpose of terrorism.

[gaspar]

Walter Jones (R-NC) is "going wobbly." Somehow I expected more from North Carolina.

[mark502inf]

We've already announced our exit strategy for Iraq: we leave when the Iraqi government and security forces are capable of running and securing their own country.

[USS Alaska]

If the denonRATs were running the Revolutionary War, Queen Elizabeth would still be our queen and our tax rate would be 70%, it would be a bumbershoot, not an umbrella and I'd be going to the loo to take a hillary.

[infidel29]

Total losses of all European Nations ca. 40,000,000/ U.S. 295,000 (WWII)

34,444,530 the number of babies killed through legalized child murder in America from 1992 to 2002.

9,180,283(est.) casualties world wide in WWI including 116,516 U.S. (military only)

36,568 Americans died in Korean War.

Here are some interesting numbers oh great Congress...people.

Iraq, Saddam Hussein (1979-2003): 300 000 Human Rights Watch: "twenty-five years of Ba`th Party rule ... murdered or 'disappeared' some quarter of a million Iraqis" [http://www.hrw.org/wr2k4/3.htm] 8/9 Dec. 2003 AP: Total murders New survey estimates 61,000 residents of Baghdad executed by Saddam. US Government estimates a total of 300,000 murders 180,000 Kurds k. in Anfal 60,000 Shiites in 1991 50,000 misc. others executed "Human rights officials" est.: 500,000 Iraqi politicians: over a million 857 cartons of detailed files kept by the Iraqi secret police describing genocide against the Kurds emerged in 1991-92. Time 1 June 1992: 200,000 to 300,000 killed (late 80s) AP 7 Dec. 1991: 200,000 k (1986-1991) Chicago Tribune 26 May 1992: 200,000 to 300,000 (1988-91) 22 Feb. 1994 AP at Radwaniyeh prison camp November 1993: up to 2,000 political executions before September 1993: "hundreds" October 1992: 200 in a single day SOURCE

Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-95): 175 000 deaths. How many are Bill Clinton responsible for?

How many deaths can we attribute to Johnson's "War on Poverty"? Do we have an exit strategy from it?