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Getting Out of Iraq
Rolling Stone ^ | 11-17-05 | Robert Dreyfuss

Posted on 11/23/2005 12:03:25 PM PST by Redneck Limey

Getting Out of Iraq

The only remaining question is not how to win the war, but how to end it

By ROBERT DREYFUSS

George Bush is just about the only person in Washington these days who doesn't know that the United States has lost the war in Iraq. "We're never going to back down, we're never going to give in, we'll never accept anything less than total victory," Bush declared in mid-October.

But in the rest of Washington, including the Pentagon, nearly everyone else is thinking about exit strategies. Public support for the war....

read more at http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8799011?pageid=rs.Politics&pageregion=single1

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bonghead; iraq; whytheycallitdope
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To: joesbucks

"So if we cleaned up and Iraq was a functional independent US loving country, then the words spoken would have been wrong."

What? Not following your "what if" thought here.


61 posted on 11/23/2005 5:00:33 PM PST by hsalaw
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To: counterpunch

The inability of the insurgents to prevent two national elections probably will lead to increased participation of the Sunni Arabs in the December 15 elections. Until then Rolling Stone can stick its speculations up their noses.


62 posted on 11/23/2005 5:07:29 PM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Redneck Limey
The Politics of Exiting Iraq
63 posted on 11/30/2006 12:21:08 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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