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The War in Iraq: What Has Gone Wrong, What is at Stake, and What Must Be Done to Win.

Posted on 04/30/2006 5:26:23 PM PDT by Xing Daorong

A political essay detailing why it is essential to stay the course in Iraq.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; currentevents; foreignaffairs; iraq; notherstinkinvanity
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To: Lost Humanist

Ah yes I forgot, I based this essay on a number of events and off several books I have read, I quoted nothing but I'll list my sources below.

"Inside the Resistance" by Zaki Chehab
"My Jihad" by Aukai Collins
"Arabs at War: A Military History" by Kenneth Pollack
"Strategery" by Bill Sammon

www.defenselink.mil
www.foxnews.com
www.bbc.co.uk
www.newyorktimes.com
www.military.com
www.historychannel.com


21 posted on 04/30/2006 6:45:32 PM PDT by Xing Daorong ("All that is nessessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."-Edmund Burke)
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To: Xing Daorong

Have you ever heard of how important a "first impression" is?


22 posted on 04/30/2006 6:46:23 PM PDT by freeplancer
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To: Xing Daorong

It smacks of moderate fundamentalism. Split the difference between opposing sides.

I think the war in Iraq has been an overwhelming success. Many common naysayers predicted that more than 10,000 US troops would be killed in first six months (Carl Levin).

Bush was quite right to stand on the aircraft carrier and declare Mission Accomplished. By that time, all of the military components of Iraq's resistance had been crushed and defeted. The "insurgency" never won a battle or held any location of Iraq decisively. The media deceived the public into believing that even a single soldier death constituted an apparent defeat of the US.

Senator Biden said the US could not train an Iraqi security force to take care of elections in that country. Immediately, three elections were held involving more than 8 million people each time with fatalities declining dramatically (more than 30 percent) each time. The security forces of Iraq played decisive and increasing roles in those 2005 elections. Biden was flat out totally wrong! He was among the most qualified critics of the war in the Senate.

Al Qaeda has functionally withdrawn from Iraq. Zarqawi has been removed from local terror operations. Tips against Al Qaeda and other terrorists in the country pour in at a rate of thousands each day.

Political transitions deemed impossible have been made and are too numerous to list here.

No compromise. Stop trying to split the difference with lunatics.

Bush led and won the war in Iraq decisively. We have an occupation force now positioned in one of the most geostratetic points possible for the ongoing War on Terror. Both in Afghanistan and Iraq, we have proven that we are winning and will continue to crush the terrorists.


23 posted on 04/30/2006 6:54:17 PM PDT by lonestar67
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To: lonestar67

Well said. :)


24 posted on 04/30/2006 7:15:13 PM PDT by Xing Daorong ("All that is nessessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."-Edmund Burke)
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To: lonestar67

We are fighting for freedom in Iraq. I know we are winning.


25 posted on 04/30/2006 7:16:32 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative (God makes us strong for alittle while so that we can protect the weak.)
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To: freeplancer

I don't know really, what difference would it have made if I was Chinese? :P

I wouldn't be so adamantly pro-Republican and pro-America if I was posting on a Chinese owned web server.


26 posted on 04/30/2006 7:23:05 PM PDT by Xing Daorong ("All that is nessessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."-Edmund Burke)
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To: Xing Daorong

You need to footnote your references....especially the porn shops and belly-dancing allegations. And I wouldn't state that America is a non-Muslim nation, being as we have a significant Muslim population. Otherwise, nice job.


27 posted on 04/30/2006 7:41:30 PM PDT by soupcon
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To: Xing Daorong

With evidence that the insurgency is cracking, it's now a question of who can endure the longest. Given our Demoncrat Blubberals, it's a tough call.


28 posted on 05/01/2006 4:36:41 AM PDT by RoadTest (The wicked love darkness; but God's people love the Light!)
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To: RoadTest

lol true


29 posted on 05/01/2006 6:58:46 PM PDT by Xing Daorong ("All that is nessessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."-Edmund Burke)
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