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"We will defeat the terrorists in Iraq. We will not let al-Qaeda take a stronghold -- get a stronghold in Iraq. We'll help this country develop a democracy, which will send a powerful signal to people in Damascus and Tehran," he said.
1 posted on 12/11/2005 11:26:59 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

try 20 years


2 posted on 12/11/2005 11:29:17 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

History will exonerate over Iraq, the borders are a different story.


3 posted on 12/11/2005 11:35:00 AM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

4 posted on 12/11/2005 11:35:48 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Good news and bad news.... First the good news... I'm already there. I think he did the right thing by invading. Now the bad news: In 50 years, I'll probably be dead.


5 posted on 12/11/2005 11:39:10 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1995), pp. 258-259.


8 posted on 12/11/2005 11:41:45 AM PST by Ninian Dryhope
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Right and good will always prevail over wrong and evil.


10 posted on 12/11/2005 11:45:03 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
As of yesterday, at least 2,137 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,676 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

The AP count is one lower than the Defense Department's tally, last updated at 1pm on Friday.

Can't have an Iraq story without the requisite US body count.
14 posted on 12/11/2005 12:21:32 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup (Johnson & Johnson = Bengals win!)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

It will not take that long - 10 years at the most. And those who died will be considered heroes. God bless each one of them and their families. War is always tragic, but unfortunately necessary. Too bad the Dems insist on living in unreality by not recognizing this. But that is why their influence continues to decline. (And Howard Dean must be a Republican plant.)


15 posted on 12/11/2005 12:24:25 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God is giving you countless observable clues of His existence!)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Oh, it will take much less than 50 years.


16 posted on 12/11/2005 1:18:24 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

In 20 years we will see what we saw with the Cold War: suddenly, everyone will have supported Mr. Reagan's policies all along.


17 posted on 12/11/2005 1:22:45 PM PST by Mr. Buzzcut (metal god ... visit The Ponderosa .... www.vandelay.com ... DEATH BEFORE DHIMMITUDE)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

The great majority of sensible people support the war now. If it weren't for the liars in the media, there wouldn't be any question about it.


18 posted on 12/11/2005 1:24:17 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
ex·on·er·ate
1. To free from blame.
2. To free from a responsibility, obligation, or task.

Wrong word choice.

19 posted on 12/11/2005 1:46:33 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
I see no where in this piece where the President states history will exonerate "him". Editorializing again?

"I'm absolutely convinced that some day, 50 or 60 years from now, an American president will be speaking to an audience saying, thank goodness a generation of Americans rose to the challenge and helped people be liberated from tyranny," Bush said. "Democracy spread and the world is more peaceful for it," he added.

THIS sounds more like the President. The other sounded as though he was defensive and concentrated entirely on himself. I'm sure that was unintentional by the writer. [sarcasm]

I'm not certain when he'll get the due he deserves. Reagan only got a taste twenty years later, and he died before that happened. G.W.B. could live 40 years and I suspect so long as he lives they will do everything in their power to deny him credit even when the M.E. is the tourist destination of the world. I am confident in time he will be remembered well. I'm confident most other politicians during this time will not be.

21 posted on 12/11/2005 2:29:42 PM PST by Soul Seeker (Mr. President: It is now time to turn over the money changers' tables.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Much much sooner than 50 years.. it won't even take 'history' to show that GWB did the right thing, it's beginning to show now.. and would be further towards that end had the white flag party and their cohort leftist media got on-board from the get go instead of aiding the enemy and continually throwing sour grapes and bananas under the Military and GWB. But despite the defeatists GWB and our Brave Troops won't have to wait too long to see the fruits of VICTORY!!!


26 posted on 12/11/2005 4:03:47 PM PST by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

I agree with him, they will. They shouldn't have to however. This nation has lost it's soul thanks to the left. I am sick and tired of them.


29 posted on 12/11/2005 4:59:10 PM PST by ladyinred (RIP dear Texas Cowboy, you will be missed.)
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