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5. Realization that the initial campaign should MUST
be short and sweet.

When Dubya won in 2004 and the Rs held both houses...they had
a two year time limit to CLEARLY win in Iraq.

I suspect to large degree, that's why last Tuesday's elections
went as they did.

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Yep, I agree.

I support my president, and I voted for him, and he gets to decide those things.

What's instructive about the Ireland/Cromwell thing is that the British stayed and the religious difference remained and was even magnified.

There is a limited time to go in, break things, and depart with the threat that you'll do it again if they don't straighten up.

The ended up using a partioning of the Irish Island to give some kind of peace.