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To: Redmen4ever
If we had a time machine and could go back and re-do what we did, here are just a few of things we would have done differently:
1. Not call off the Persian Gulf War after 100 hours.

Definitely! It was a huge mistake on the part of "41"!

2. Not abandon the Marsh Arabs when they rose up against Saddam Huissen, but helped them to establish a semi-autonomous region within Iraq as we did with the Kurds.
Concur...another one of "41's" blunders!

3. Not reduce our military from being able to fight and win two wars simultaneously to being able only to fight and win one war at a time.
Agreed...DUH-bee-yew's blunder this time, egged on by Rummy and Wolfowitz who told him it could be done and Cheney cheering them on!

4. Not go to the U.N. to ask for permission to invade Iraq, allowing Saddam time to prepare for our invasion by having his key people in the military and police infiltrate into the population and continue to resist us by unconventional means.
Well, it's a good point but I suppose he had to get some sort of consensus and begin a coalition so I would give him a pass on this.

5. Not invade Iraq at all (since they no longer had WMD).
If you'll recall, he said he would NOT invade if Sadaam, sons and cohorts would all leave...but, IMHO, he would still have had resistance with what was left, and his real plan was to build a model democracy for the rest of the Middle East to emulate...

As it is, none of these options are available to us at this time. Instead, it appears that the only options are (A) win the damn thing, or (B) leave and tell them good luck and, oh, by the way, why don't you partition your country. With an increasingly capable Iraqi army, I'm thinking option (A) sounds pretty good, and thank God for those who are making this option possible.

I, too, want to win but it has become painfully obvious to me that we are letting it slip away as more and more Sunni and Shitte "militias" are gaining strength and numbers.

100 posted on 08/29/2006 1:21:05 PM PDT by meandog (While Clinton isn't fit even to scrape Reagan's shoes, Bush will never fill them!)
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To: meandog

And we've already established you know little about which you spout, so I won't bother addressing your silly claim re: #3.


108 posted on 08/29/2006 3:45:26 PM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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