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I am starting to think going to Iraq was a mistake
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| 4/30/04
| MDP
Posted on 04/30/2004 9:16:18 AM PDT by Check_Your_Premises
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Thoughts?
To: Check_Your_Premises
Going wobbly, are we?
To: Check_Your_Premises
Perspective.
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:18:44 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
To: Check_Your_Premises
I'm glad we never took advice like this when things got tough during the Revloutionary War, or the Civil War, or WWI, or WWII, or . . . .
Well you get the idea.
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:18:56 AM PDT
by
68skylark
(.)
To: Check_Your_Premises
Thoughts?I suggest your do as your screen name says.
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:19:18 AM PDT
by
bcoffey
(Sen. Kerry: I'm not questioning your service; I'm questioning your sanity!)
To: Check_Your_Premises
I agree. People who want freedom should fight for it themselves. I admire President Bush, but I think he was too optimistic about Arab modernity.
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:19:24 AM PDT
by
PolitBase
To: Check_Your_Premises
Thoughts?Yeah, you contradicted yourself:
Why not? We have succeeded at such things in the past. We transformed post war Germany and Japan into thriving and peaceful democracies ... The one problem I had with liberating Iraq from Saddam's clutches is that we were removing one of the most important steps to the forming of a successful democracy. The successful overthrow of tyranny is a process that produces the type of leaders that are required to bring the successful transition from tyranny to liberal democracy...
So in one breath you mention Japan and Germany as successes, and in the next you state that one of the most important steps is an action that never happened with Japan and Germany.
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:19:39 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
To: JennysCool
Gone wobbly's a bit more like it.
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:19:40 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: Check_Your_Premises
how can we possibly win there? We already have. The old regime is dead.
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:19:56 AM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(John F-ing Kerry??? NO... F-ING... WAY!!!)
To: Check_Your_Premises
Just ask yourself two questions:
Would I rather we waited until these battles were brought onto our soil?
Would I rather have the terrorists more widely dispersed, as opposed to seeing many of them concentrate in one region where they can be eliminated in greater numbers?
To: Check_Your_Premises
The number of casualties seemed to reach a "critical mass" for me.Get a grip and start reading some history of WWII. When we start to lose over 700 in one day from a training accident, or 19,000 in one battle that lasts about 5 weeks, then we can talk about "critical mass."
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:20:33 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: Check_Your_Premises
"In the same sense we seem to care more about the freedom of the Iraqi people than they do themselves"
How did you come to this conclusion ? How many Iraqi people have you talked to ?
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:20:39 AM PDT
by
UB355
To: Check_Your_Premises
A few tough days and you're ready to go all Walter Cronkite on us?
Geez. Remember, we only "lost" Vietnam because of people taking on that attitude. And in Vietnam at least it took a good 5 or 6 years for that to happen.
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:20:48 AM PDT
by
counterpunch
(<-CLICK HERE for my CARTOONS)
To: Check_Your_Premises
"It's my nerves, Sir."
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:21:57 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Check_Your_Premises
1) we care more about the freedom of the Iraqi people than they do (something we could only have known in hindsight)
No. Most Iraqis seems to enjoy the idea of being able to marry whoever they want and go wherever they want. Liberty is not an idea that we have a copyright on. Note the numbers of insurgents is somewhere in the neighborhood of @5K. Considering how many million inhabitants there are, this is nothing. What's more, they're openly tring to hide behind women and children and in mosques. That will not help their cause.
2)we are not willing to wage total war until all opposition is removed
I think the military and the President are. I keep pointing out that nobody thought we could beat the Germans or the Japanese in WWII. Eventually we killed enough of them so that they stopped trying to kill us. Why do you think there's a truce in Fallujah? You don't think we're scared, do you?
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:22:03 AM PDT
by
dyed_in_the_wool
("It boots you not to avoid his snares")
To: Check_Your_Premises
If you want us to pull out in defeat, maybe you'd like to send a campaign donation or John Kerry, or maybe volunteer for his campaign.
I hear they need good helpers, and you'll meet many like-minded people there.
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:22:42 AM PDT
by
68skylark
(.)
To: Check_Your_Premises
Thoughts? Yes. My critical mass was reached on 9/11.
We already have captured MANY terrorists INSIDE OF IRAQ. Others have confessed as using Iraq as a training ground and "safe house".
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:23:30 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Check_Your_Premises
Welcome aboard.
My opposition to this war in Iraq, which dates back to 2002, is based on the following:
1. The voters of this country are not focused, intelligent, or disciplined enough to support a long-term war like this.
2. The civilian leadership in the Defense Department has proven itself to be untrustworthy, incompetent, or corrupt . . . or any combination of these three.
3. It was clear to me even in 2002 that this was nothing more than a veiled attempt at "nation-building," by a President who had promised as a candidate in 2000 not to engage in nation-builing.
To: Check_Your_Premises
43,220 deaths on our highways last year according to NHTSA, now that's a mass
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:23:42 AM PDT
by
UB355
To: Check_Your_Premises
I don't doubt your sincerity,
but you have been listening to the Bush-hating press.
This is an election year:
our media wants him defeated
at any cost, including the deaths of our soldiers.
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:23:46 AM PDT
by
onyx
(Kerry' s a Veteran, but so were Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and Benedict Arnold)
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