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What do you mean the war in Iraq is unwinnable? We've already won it!
November 17, 2005 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 11/17/2005 9:50:06 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Edited on 11/17/2005 10:23:57 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: Jim Robinson
What do you mean the war in Iraq is unwinnable? We've already won it!

EXCELLENT!! Thank God for people like you, and fellow FReepers, and honest & intelligent Americans everywhere who really do understand and totally comprehend the TRUTH!

21 posted on 11/17/2005 10:07:45 PM PST by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Already posted Here

Gotcha!


22 posted on 11/17/2005 10:07:46 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: quidnunc
Quid, good to see you. Been awhile.

This whole hysterical media campaign is beginning to reek of desperation, and I think I know why. Despite the insistence on an artificial timetable there really is one of sorts, and we've met every milestone so far. Does anyone now doubt that there will be an election in Iraq next month, and that after it a representative government will be seated? What is left is the last resort of the defeated, an attempt to "frame" the topic in such terms as to make it appear other than everyone knows perfectly well it was - a mission accomplished.

The Dems know this perfectly well. The screaming about Valerie Plame (a woman who is quite alive and well, unlike the CIA operatives the left has outed for the last thirty years) and the insistence on focusing on the war's roots - "Bush lied" - are the hallmarks of a group of people who simply cannot abide the imminence of a free and independent Iraq that they first said was impossible and now say was unwarranted. It isn't their finest moment.

I take gentle issue with your suggestion that for the war to be a victory it has to be recognized as such by people who know perfectly well that the witholding of that recognition is their last pathetic grasping for legitimacy. In fact, it does not. We'll know this one for a victory when the media and the Dems start to bleat about the economy, the Supreme Court, medicare, and...hmm..and Valerie Plame. Come to think of it...

23 posted on 11/17/2005 10:08:03 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Jim Robinson

bttt


24 posted on 11/17/2005 10:09:24 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Jim Robinson
Bravo!! Well said Jim!

Pray for W and Our Liberator Troops

25 posted on 11/17/2005 10:11:05 PM PST by bray (Iraq, freed from Saddamn now Pray for Freedom from Mohammad)
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To: Petronski

I was thinking Alzheimers.....


26 posted on 11/17/2005 10:13:06 PM PST by goodnesswins (DEMS....40 yrs and $$$dollars for the War on Poverty, but NOT a $$ or minute for the WAR on Terror!)
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To: Jim Robinson

When we start pulling out troops next year, because Iraq is a functioning democracy, I fully expect the Democrats to declare victory and say that the President has finally seen the error of his ways.


27 posted on 11/17/2005 10:13:18 PM PST by Lost Highway (I don't know what the world may need but a V8 engines a good start for me)
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To: Lost Highway

nah they will be to busy trying to figure out how to steal the 2006 elections at that point


28 posted on 11/17/2005 10:14:33 PM PST by Americanwolf (Support the Minutemen Civil Defense Corp...Doing the Job our government won't !)
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To: Billthedrill

If the U.S. militry leaves Iraq on any terms other than the administrations — including those of the Democrat's and the Republican apopeasers — it will be seen by the whole world as a defeat.

That's what happened in Vietnam when Congess cut off all money to South Vietnam in violation of our treaty with them.

I'm afraid that the "Bush lied" and "Iraq is a quagmire" memes are gaining substantial traction with the Americanm polity.


29 posted on 11/17/2005 10:14:52 PM PST by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: Jim Robinson

The left is determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. How they hate American success.

Reminds me of the Saddam propaganda machine before Baghdad fell.

Mr Chalabi said he expected US soldiers might begin to pull out in 2006.


30 posted on 11/17/2005 10:15:27 PM PST by dervish (no excuse s)
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To: Billthedrill

"This whole hysterical media campaign is beginning to reek of desperation,...."


Agreed! Your right. I know it. This is their last chance. They have nothing to lose. Desperate people will do ANYTHING.


31 posted on 11/17/2005 10:17:57 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Jim Robinson

BEAUTIFUL.....and soooo obvious....we HAVE WON....it's the clean up job that's a problem....LOL.


32 posted on 11/17/2005 10:26:22 PM PST by goodnesswins (DEMS....40 yrs and $$$dollars for the War on Poverty, but NOT a $$ or minute for the WAR on Terror!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Well said, Jim. I was just thinking about this the past day or so. We won the war--relatively quickly and easily. Ironically, that quick and easy victory in the war has made the post-war transitional occupation seem longer and more difficult. (People forget that there was also a postwar phase in Germany and Japan after WWII.) During this phase, we have had to contend, not with uniformed Iraqi troops, but with cowardly murderous terrorists. But every time the Iraqi citizens get their fingers purple, we move another step closer to a democratic and stable Iraq. And gradually the terrorists are being eliminated and Iraqi security is growing stronger. Indeed, it will be a great and glorious day when we can bring our boys home! Hopefully soon!


33 posted on 11/17/2005 10:27:33 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (And the media doesn't report all the Iraqis who are so grateful for what we have done!)
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To: Jim Robinson

I agree that we've won, but it's striking fear into the hearts of the left so bad, that they are doing their damndest to make sure we leave early enough to see it all unravel.

Quislings on parade...


34 posted on 11/17/2005 10:42:38 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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It's just that the Leftists can't stand Iraq being a success. They cannot abide by an "illegitimate war" being a force for good in the world.

The anti-American Leftists want the Iraq war to be a failure so badly that they're forcing us to abandon it...just so they can later say, "See? I told you so! Nyah-nyah!"

These people have no soul.

35 posted on 11/17/2005 10:44:51 PM PST by Prime Choice (Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
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To: Jim Robinson

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!


36 posted on 11/17/2005 10:48:20 PM PST by Crooked Constituent
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To: Jim Robinson

We have won in Afghanistan. We won in Iraq. The next big battle is to defeat dumocrats in 2006 and 2008 who wish to cut and run from Iraq and everywhere else.


37 posted on 11/17/2005 10:49:40 PM PST by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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To: mhx

"Winning a War", to a lefty, consists of abject surrender, with a healthy side of apology.


38 posted on 11/17/2005 10:49:50 PM PST by Sterm26 (Indict....no, HANG Joe Wilson!)
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To: Jim Robinson

It looks like the Dems need to de-rail this thing by November 06. Our troops coming home ( for the most part )and the Iraqi government firmly in place come election time will only help Republicans.

Its going to get worse , this is a do or die for the libs IMO.


39 posted on 11/17/2005 10:50:18 PM PST by Peace will be here soon ((Liberal definition of looting: "Self-help Humanitarian Aid."))
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To: Charles Henrickson

I'm so glad to see someone point this out. People learn in history class when WWII was won, but they seem shocked when they realize the long rebuilding and the extended time we had (and have) US military bases in the countries that fought against us. If we go by the left's propoganda, WWII hasn't been won until there is no more US military presence in Germany and Japan.


40 posted on 11/17/2005 10:50:22 PM PST by dan1123
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