[caltrop]

I can't be sure of the left's approach but I know this conservative thinks we're on a fool's errand in Iraq and that's particularly true since there are genuine threats out there like North Korea. Our War in Iraq not only hasn't impressed our adversaries, it's emboldened them. We've got half our Army in Iraq, we're spending a fortune and Iraq's dividing itself into the three regions it's always been made of. In the final analysis, we'll have squandered GIs lives, thrown away mountains of money and hindered our defense all in the same idiotic exercise.

My guess is the country will recognize we were suckered into fighting this war and that none of the half truths and optimistic forecasts offered up to get us into this mess were at all realistic. The upshot, IMHO, is that those who encouraged this policy will be thoroughly discredited and the country will bring its ground troops home from the Middle East - clearly the right move but the exact opposite of the objective the cheerleaders of this war thought they were accomplishing.

[inPhase]

Thanks caltrop for comment below, admirable move.

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but I know this conservative thinks we're on a fool's errand in Iraq and that's particularly true since there are genuine threats out there like North Korea. Our War in Iraq not only hasn't impressed our adversaries, it's emboldened them. We've got half our Army in Iraq, we're spending a fortune and Iraq's dividing itself into the three regions it's always been made of. In the final analysis, we'll have squandered GIs lives, thrown away mountains of money and hindered our defense all in the same idiotic exercise.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Yeah, yeah, you also predicted that Jeb Bush would get his butt kicked in the last election.