Posted on 02/18/2007 10:19:43 PM PST by freedomdefender
Again....... I cannot type fast enough.
500,000 troops will make no difference if we simply pacify Iraq for a few months before we pull out.
One million troops will not make a difference because all the Islamofascist have to do with withdraw across the Iraqi border and wait until we leave because the government in Iraq is severely weakened by the same forces I mentioned above.
500,000 troops and depose the regimes in Iran and Syria and now we are playing with matches.
You're obviously not a robotic Bush supporter, or you would be ignoring this post, like the true Bushbots are doing. They've got their hands over their ears - they don't want to hear about the horrific refugee crisis that bush's undermanned war has created. At least you're willing to look the problem in the fact and discuss it.
I think all of us supported Sec. Of Defense because the Liberals hated him.
But anyway the point was that Rumsfeld was a bit arrogant and overconfident in what we were doing in Iraq.
If President Bush canned him in 2004, the situation in Iraq might be vastly different and we would be on the brink of turning things around in 2006.
But instead, I don't think the situation will be stabilized until either 2009 or 2010, and we are likely to have a Democratic President in charge.
Time is not in our advantage now, and I predict we will be back in Iraq for the Third time in 10 to 20 years.
I hope I'm wrong.
Freedom on the March bump
Definitely one should address Syrian problem - in Syria still there are many Christians free to worship.
Who on this earth faces a certain future?
This was an understatement. Christians in Iraq face CERTAIN future.
Iraqi Christians are just that - Christians. They've been Christian at least six centuries longer than Muslims have been Islamic.
What if the U.S. offered to resettle Iraqi Christians here? They'd be far more assimilable than mooselimbs, we'd have an Arabic-speaking contigent to help us with understanding the Arab world.
Just a thought. By the way, there are already Iraqi Christian communities in the U.S. How are they working out, assimilation-wise?
Better than them scattering to other Islamic Arab hellholes.
I have to agree. I was scratching my head at the time Iraq was invaded (no it wasn't lice). However, Bush is the CIC, and he presumably was in a much better position to make the decision. Whether, it was a mistake or not, though, we are there not. Pulling out prematurely would be a bigger mistake.
Actually, it is not the job of CIC to make decision whether to go to war or not. His job is to direct war decided by the Congress.
"Definitely one should address Syrian problem - in Syria still there are many Christians free to worship."
Yeah, Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Christians at that. Probably need to stamp them out the same way we did in Kosovo, use the Mohammedans to do it for us.
We have repeated many of the same mistakes we made in Vietnam. The military is not good at police duties or social work. Its purpose is to kill people and break things. Additionally, fighting prolonged conflicts is not in America's DNA, like it or not. Had America entered World War I in 1914, and we suffered Verdun-level losses with little apparent gain, Wilson would have been soundly defeated had he run for re-election in 1916. Sherman's successes in the South and Grant's reinvigoration of the Army of the Potomac saved Lincoln from defeat in 1864 and a President McClellan probably acquiescing to Southern independence.
Only a quick and decisive victory in Iraq, even if extremely brutal, will save the GOP from losing the White House in 2008, irrespective of who the Presidential nominee is.
Where's their petition?
LOL, don't forget to feel good.
They should be allowed into the USA. Because of their religion, they will not strap bombs around their waists and kill dozens of people. They will not fly planes into buildings.
Ideology predicts behavior.
You give yourself away with the "bushbots" comment! Why should I, a "bushbot" take you seriously? Oh I see, you're enlightening us then, oh wise one! /sarcasm
Us unenlightened bushbots need your wisdom!
Good grief, Get off your high horse whoever you are!
Are you saying that more than a million people have't fled Iraq? Are you saying that most of the Christians have not been forced to flee? Please give me, with specific citations, the sources for your knowledge, as it contradicts what I've been reading. And i'm not talking about what's going on in Kurdistan. If there's no Iraq refugee crisis - if the reports about hundreds of thousands of Iraqis fleeing, including most of the Christians, aren't true - I want to be informed, so please give me some citations.
You have no way of knowing whether Shinseki's plan would have worked. But I do believe you would have been over here on assignment from DU b*tching about that plan too, troll.
You have no way of knowing whether Shinseki's plan would have worked. But I do believe you would have been over here on assignment from DU b*tching about that plan too, troll.
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