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Support Said Growing for Iraq Exit Plan
AP ^ | 8/18/5 | STEVE HARTSOE

Posted on 08/18/2005 4:51:56 PM PDT by SmithL

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To: SmithL

Really, this from the Freedom Fries guy (Walter Jones). I think he was just faking it when he renamed those vegetables in the Capitol cafeteria.


61 posted on 08/18/2005 9:25:13 PM PDT by RustysGirl
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To: SmithL
WHY hasn't the Media demanded an exit strategy for:

1. Kosovo
2. Haiti
3. Germany
4. Okinawa
5. Korea

What gets me, is that EVERYONE involved in Iraq volunteered.
There are NO draftees.
These are ADULTS on an ADULT mission.
They made a choice.

I thought Libs were in favor of choice.

Silly me.

62 posted on 08/18/2005 9:34:15 PM PDT by drc43 (Judges... Judges... get it done, then we can discuss priorities)
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To: drc43; Dog Gone; Grampa Dave; Southack; BOBTHENAILER
Yours in the most prescient and profound post on this thread... bar none!!!

Oh! And check out my tagline just for the heck of it...

63 posted on 08/18/2005 9:49:43 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Iraq! Our exit strategy should be... VICTORY!!!)
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To: SierraWasp
VICTORY!

VICTORY!

Let it ring aroung the world.

VICTORY!!!

OUR Exit Strategy!!!

64 posted on 08/18/2005 9:57:39 PM PDT by drc43 (Judges... Judges... get it done, then we can discuss priorities)
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To: drc43

I hear that!!!


65 posted on 08/18/2005 10:01:33 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Iraq! Our exit strategy should be... VICTORY!!!)
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To: baystaterebel
Wait...I think I've heard that exit plan about a bajillion times and agree with it wholeheartedly. Wasn't anyone else listening!

(I'm going to go Howard-crazy if I keep listening to the msm. Yearrghhhh!)
66 posted on 08/18/2005 10:04:47 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: Lincarhamus
Ok...let me interpret this:

I was for the war when it was easy. Now that we are going through the difficult murky part, I'm not sure I want to do it anymore.

Yes...that is the kind of Americans our troops need. The kind that support them when they don't need it and high tail it out of there when the going gets rough or the enemy throws things at us that are unanticipated. WARS ARE MESSY and WARS ARE HARD. That does not mean they are not worth fighting.

I am not trying to insult you...I just want you to stop yourself short and SERIOUSLY THINK about what you are saying. Are you sure that is the kind of person you want to be? Honestly, I think I people who have been against it all along for philosophical reasons are more honorable than that kind of approach.

In war, you are either all in until we win...or you are out. Mushy middle need not apply.

67 posted on 08/18/2005 10:13:10 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: Lincarhamus

...Freedom cannot be imposed, especially in a part of the world like the Middle East.



Oh yes it can. Freedom was imposed on Germany and Japan rather well, they are excellent examples today.

But first we had to kill them by the millions.

Nukes and Ultimatums. Tried and True method.

Nuke Damascus or Tehran and keep nuking until we are satisfied that the threat is over.

This Vietnam Redux is crap. We need to fight like we did in WW2 - NO MERCY!

WE didn't start this war but we have the means of finishing it in one month, if only we had the will.
TAGLINE:


68 posted on 08/18/2005 10:22:56 PM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: baystaterebel

This is a great idea! Did you send it to the White House?


69 posted on 08/18/2005 10:32:29 PM PDT by bethtopaz (Another dopeless hope fiend.)
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To: baystaterebel

This is a great idea! Did you send it to the White House?


70 posted on 08/18/2005 10:32:34 PM PDT by bethtopaz (Another dopeless hope fiend.)
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To: Lincarhamus

Last year a middle-eastern man called into a talk show, after we found Saddam Hussein.

He said, "I am so glad that we finally found the weapons of mass destruction. Saddam killed thousands of his own people."

I believe that just like Hitler was a weapon of mass destruction (6 million Jews and millions of other non-Aryans) isn't small change.

Hey, we found the weapon of mass destruction.


71 posted on 08/18/2005 10:35:31 PM PDT by bethtopaz (Another dopeless hope fiend.)
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To: SmithL
Sure, let's announce a surrender date.

Would you rather us just leave in the middle of the night? Let the Iraqis clean up the rest of the bad guys. The terrorists are killing THEM more than they are american soldiers

72 posted on 08/18/2005 10:36:34 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Lincarhamus
Iraq was no threat, he was hemmed in by Sanctions and Over Flights...he had no WMD


oLe Lincarhamus been here for 7 days, humm.

Iraq was a threat way back in 1993 in the first WTC bombing. Half of those involved were linked to Iraq.

Iraq was not hemmed in. His support for terror was with his money and Saddam was sending money to Palestinian bombers as well as giving sanctuary to one of the 1993 WTC bombers.

The whole world didn't know whether Saddam had and would use WMDs. Well NOW they now that he does NOT and WILL NOT IN THE FUTURE. There was only one way the World would be guaranteed knowing this, and that was by going in and taking that punk down.

Why? Because unlike Clinton and his cowardly liberal scum, who went after his WTC attackers with
-lawyers, subpoenas and affidavits;

Republicans tend to be a little more proactive in defense of this country. We go after the enemy with
-Marines, Submarines and Aircraft.
If only we could use Big Boy, and drop it on Tehran ( I'm talking about Michael Mooron. Moslems would hate all those megatons of swineflesh.)
73 posted on 08/18/2005 10:38:54 PM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: Shawndell Green

Yes, and Osama bin Laden's assertions about the weak will of the Americans would be confirmed.

He watched how the U.S. responded to the anti-war protestors during Vietnam and eventually left because of it. He's just biding his time.

Why reward terrorism?


74 posted on 08/18/2005 10:43:16 PM PDT by bethtopaz (Another dopeless hope fiend.)
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To: ex-snook

This whole idea of an "exit strategy" is a no-brainer.

You have a misbehaving, temper-throwing child. You give him boundaries and get tough when he crosses over them.

He screams, yells, kicks, throws things, breaks things and finally -- you say to youself, Well, I guess the only thing I can do now is leave him alone.

The child has learned a huge lesson -- but not a good one. If he screams, yells, kicks, throws, breaks enough and for a long enough period of time, getting progressively more violent, then he gets his way.

The child is victorious -- the parent a big loser.
And it will only get worse.



Rush Limbaugh: The terrorists -- an endless parade of human debris.


75 posted on 08/18/2005 10:49:25 PM PDT by bethtopaz (Another dopeless hope fiend.)
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To: Soul Seeker

Soul Seeker,
You are correct - if you listen to the men and women 'over there' they tell an entirely different story. Progress is being made and good things are happening. Iraqis are learning to fight for their country and dying for it in the process.

Americans have become so impatient that they want this war to be won as fast as it takes to get a cheeseburger and fries at McDonalds. I'm so thankful the anti-war, socialist/communist, anti-American group weren't around during WWII or the world would all be saying, "Heil Hitler."


76 posted on 08/18/2005 10:56:31 PM PDT by bethtopaz (Another dopeless hope fiend.)
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To: TomasUSMC

Love your tag line Tomas, USMC!


77 posted on 08/18/2005 11:01:09 PM PDT by bethtopaz (Another dopeless hope fiend.)
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To: Lincarhamus
"Freedom cannot be imposed"

No, but we can keep Iraq from becoming the homebase for terrorism.

I do not give a dam* if Iraq becomes heaven on earth or if it becomes the the freest place on earth. I do give a dam* if it turns into terrorism central.

Leaving Iraq with the job half done will just encourage the terrorists to continue suicide bombing and terrorist attacks throughout the world, including here at home.

Your plan would reward them for the suicide bombing and show them and the world that America is weak and cannot sustain even low casualties for an extended time frame. Sending that message in this day and age would mean that over the next fifty years, many more Americans would lose their life to the jihadists.
78 posted on 08/19/2005 1:32:19 AM PDT by Shawndell Green (Mecca delenda est!)
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To: Lincarhamus
Tip: learn the difference between your and you're. They taught me that in third grade. Your arguments are also at the third grade level.
79 posted on 08/19/2005 1:36:01 AM PDT by Shawndell Green (Mecca delenda est!)
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To: edskid
You made good points. I have good news. Lincarhamus is no more.
80 posted on 08/19/2005 1:45:10 AM PDT by Shawndell Green (Mecca delenda est!)
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