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THROWING VICTORY AWAY
NY Post ^
| May 13, 2004
| RALPH PETERS
Posted on 05/13/2004 3:15:39 PM PDT by swilhelm73
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:21:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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QUIET isn't the same thing as peace. As a column of Marines paraded through Fallujah this week, it was done at the sufferance of our enemies. We lost the battle of Fallujah. By surrendering. The Coalition Provisional Authority insists that quiet streets are what matter. But the streets were quiet under Saddam. As they may one day be quiet under religious fanatics. Is that our sole remaining goal in Iraq? A phony calm that leaves terrorists in power?
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: fallujah; iraq; ralphpeters; victory
To: swilhelm73
Peters is one of the conservative pundits causing the Bush problems through their incessant sniping at the way the war is being fought.
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posted on
05/13/2004 3:18:36 PM PDT
by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
To: swilhelm73
Cowardice isn't a strategy. Weakness isn't a virtue.
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posted on
05/13/2004 3:18:40 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: swilhelm73
Please send copies of this to all senators/congressmen/women and the White House...thanks
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posted on
05/13/2004 3:19:58 PM PDT
by
Kackikat
To: quidnunc
Unfortunately, he's spot on! Bush took the wrong advice.
To: tet68
Sometimes a particular battle is really not worth fighting.
Watch Fallujah be "cut out of" the Iraq state and set off on it's own without an income.
It's really up to the Iraqi government to do that, not us.
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posted on
05/13/2004 3:29:34 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: quidnunc
At worst, there needs to be pundits calling for Bush to pursue a harsher policy to have some mitigating effect on the hordes of left-bots in the press calling for anything from outright surrender to terrorist enabling.
Make no mistake, articles like this help Bush in the face of the mainstream press's propaganda campaign.
More importantly, however, I tend to think Peters is right in this specific case.
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