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If the war there fails, it will be because it was not prosecuted long enough and hard enough.

This isn't a good argument, because it's totally speculative, and if it's true today, it's always true. If we quit after 4 years, you can always say that we should have stayed for 5. If we quit after 9 years, we should have stayed 10. If we quit after 49 years, we should have stayed 50.

If this war requires everything we've got, why isn't there a draft?

It will also not be long before we have to fight it here.

The insurgents and terrorists can hide in Iraq because they are hiding among their own people. We've busted a few "terrorist" cells here in the US and they were total jokes -- crazy people with crazy schemes and they didn't even get out of the starting gate. The idea that we'll be battling Islamic extremists in the streets of Anytown USA is hilarious. Where are they going to set up their base? In the alley behind the Wal*Mart?

"The terrorists" were in Afghanistan; Saddam Hussein wasn't a threat to the US and Ron Paul said so. Now that he's been proven right, he's being attacked by a bunch of crybabies who can't admit that they were wrong. The War on Terror should be a WAR ON TERROR, not something to prop up the egos of people who were wrong 4 years ago.

Don't you think that Bush has mobilized a solid effort to keep terrorists from attacking us here? You want to see it end in 2008? Well, then keep supporting the increasingly pointless military effort in Iraq and make certain the Democrats control the entire government in 2008 -- probably for another 8 years or more.

This war is worth fighting if it takes CENTURIES. Our survival as a constitutional republic is at stake.

The fighting force that this war requires is not one that would be helped by a draft. If anything a draft would be counter productive.

Last I noticed Ron wasn't even breaking 5% among Republicans. There is a reason for that. Ron is the wrong person for the Republicans and the wrong person for America.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

“The insurgents and terrorists can hide in Iraq because they are hiding among their own people. We’ve busted a few “terrorist” cells here in the US and they were total jokes — crazy people with crazy schemes and they didn’t even get out of the starting gate. The idea that we’ll be battling Islamic extremists in the streets of Anytown USA is hilarious. Where are they going to set up their base? In the alley behind the Wal*Mart?”

How then do you explain the terrorist cells who thrived in the US sufficiently long to launch 9/11? Were they ‘hillarious’?