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US Forces to Pull out of Iraq
10-13-06
| Scott Malensek
Posted on 10/13/2006 10:50:20 AM PDT by Blackrain4xmas
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To: Blackrain4xmas
I do not think that the Iraqis or the world are prepared to watch what happens when Dems and insurgents accomplish the mission of getting US troops out of Iraq asap.
If they think the TV is ugly to watch now...just imagine watching Baghdad turn into 1980's Beirut. Imagine watching tens or even hundreds of thousands of people dying. Imagine watching hundreds of thousands or millions fleeing. And imagine trying people trying to convince themselves that abandoning the Iraqi people to terrorist insurgents was a good thing to do.
This is the difference between chess players and checkers players.
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posted on
10/13/2006 10:50:51 AM PDT
by
Blackrain4xmas
(Now, more than ever, with our soldiers in harm's way, we must stand together and succeed in Iraq-JKF)
To: Blackrain4xmas
One person is calling for a British troop pullout and suddenly the war's over and everybody's going home? Yeah, right.
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posted on
10/13/2006 10:52:43 AM PDT
by
Excuse_My_Bellicosity
("A litany of complaints is not a plan." - GW Bush, referring to DNC's lack of a platform on ANYTHING)
To: Blackrain4xmas
Nice article. Where's the link?
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posted on
10/13/2006 10:54:04 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Appeasement never works. It only encourages new and escalating demands.)
To: .cnI redruM; Admin Moderator
No kidding. This article is going to have the most undeserved clicks of anything on FR today.
To: Blackrain4xmas
To: All
The British General in question is known to be too political and left leaning in his politics. The British soldiers in iraq are said to be very upset with his comments and disagree all the way up the chain of the command. It is being rumored he is going to be replaced because of playing politics.
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posted on
10/13/2006 10:56:59 AM PDT
by
jrooney
( Hold your cards close.)
To: Blackrain4xmas
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posted on
10/13/2006 10:57:02 AM PDT
by
capitalist229
(Get Democrats out of our pockets and Republicans out of our bedrooms.)
To: Blackrain4xmas
The 1990-2006 War in Iraq might soon be over. Bill Clinton had our troops there for 8 years? News to me.
To: Blackrain4xmas
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posted on
10/13/2006 10:59:27 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(Ruin a Democrat's day...help re-elect Rick Santorum.)
To: Blackrain4xmas
President Bush Sr. could have removed Saddam in 1991. He was afraid to do so for fear of its results. When he made that decision, the soldiers and Marines currently fighting and dying in Iraq were only 2 years old. Now, theyre 18 years old and fighting a war that should have been fought and ended 16 years ago. Back then, President Bush Sr. followed the post-Vietnam American populist strategy, Lets get the hell outta there, let the insurgents win, abandon Iraq to chaos, and leave the problem for the next generation to face. This is an overly simplistic view of the issue. Bush #41 didn't "fear the results" at all -- he knew the results . . . which is why his position was thoroughly consistent with the strong public stand (adamant opposition to the use of military forces to engage in "nation-building") taken by Governor George W. Bush when he was running for the White House in 2000.
As far as this issue is concerned, Bush 41 looks more brilliant by the day.
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posted on
10/13/2006 10:59:44 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: huck von finn
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posted on
10/13/2006 10:59:45 AM PDT
by
Blackrain4xmas
(Now, more than ever, with our soldiers in harm's way, we must stand together and succeed in Iraq-JKF)
To: Blackrain4xmas
"Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight - wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and never will lose a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans."
-- George S. Patton, Speech to the Third U.S. Army, March 24, 1944
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posted on
10/13/2006 11:01:13 AM PDT
by
OESY
To: Alberta's Child
So do you think we should have just gotten out of Germany once Adolf put a bullet in his brain?
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posted on
10/13/2006 11:01:59 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/13/2006 11:02:46 AM PDT
by
Blackrain4xmas
(Now, more than ever, with our soldiers in harm's way, we must stand together and succeed in Iraq-JKF)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I would recommend reading the article. Sounds as if the writer is disgusted with not finishing the job.
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posted on
10/13/2006 11:03:25 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Islam = Religion of peace. If you say otherwise, we'll kill you!)
To: Blackrain4xmas
I was responding to #11's comments, not the article.
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posted on
10/13/2006 11:05:08 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: HostileTerritory
Read the article. It will be the whim (however short sighted) of the US voter that pulls the plug on the war.
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posted on
10/13/2006 11:05:27 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Islam = Religion of peace. If you say otherwise, we'll kill you!)
To: Blackrain4xmas
According to
Johns Hopkins University there already has been 650,000 deaths in Iraq since 2003. That's over 600 people a day, every day, since the invasion.
How much worse can it get?
</sarcasm>
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posted on
10/13/2006 11:06:35 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: SF Republican
We did have troops in Saudi Arabia. The major problem is that we really don't have a competent ally in Southwest Asia, except for Israel. Now we hear the anti-war crowd turning on Israel, our only certain ally in that region.
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posted on
10/13/2006 11:06:50 AM PDT
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
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