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To: CometBaby
Well...
  1. We defeated the fourth or fifth largest Army in a few weeks.
  2. We handed over soveriegnty to an interim goivernment on time.
  3. The interim government held elections to pick their own representatives on time.
  4. The representatives created a new constitution for Iraq within a coupole fo weeks of the schedule.
  5. The Iraqi people voted to approve the constitution on time.
  6. The Iraqi elected a new government under their new constitution on time.
Seems to be "working" to me...and all of this in the face of horrific threats to those who voted by terrorists and tryants who want to thwart the advance of freedom.

Their efforts (the enemiy's) are what aren't working BUckley

So guess what? All of those purple fingers don't lie, despite the MSM and liberal/socialists attempts to the contrary.

18 posted on 02/24/2006 7:23:08 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Jeff Head
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So guess what? All of those purple fingers don't lie, despite the MSM and liberal/socialists attempts to the contrary.

Yeah, but that is by no means a guarantee of success over the long haul. There are still quite a few stones in the road that can cause a big collision. A good chunk, a large one in fact, had to do with us being able to train Iraqis to takeover for US soldiers, but IMO we're not having nearly the success there that we should be. The problem is that Iraq's future in that way, at least some of it, is predicated on that happening.

I agree, big success thus far. But as has been proven for decades now, it takes a vast minority in muslim controlled nations to turn things into a dungheap. We're never going to get all the "bad" muslims over there, so at some point they're gonna have to begin policing themselves. That points of WFB's is very valid.

I'm all for being over there until the job's done, but how long's that gonna be given the seeming lack of stepping up to the point of anything close to near complete effectiveness so that we can feel comfortable in leaving? I'm just not seeing that on the part of the Iraqis. Maybe it's just not being reported, and I know that there are pockets of success. But mere "pockets" of success in this way just aren't going to cut it over the long haul.

72 posted on 02/24/2006 8:16:27 PM PST by Fruitbat
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