[Tolik]

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[MNJohnnie]

Perhaps maybe the Usual screamers in the Junk Media should be told to sit down and shut up instead? Gee our Revolution took 8 years, and included a whole lot of American on American violence.

This hysteric hand wringing and hyperventilating by the Junk Media drama queens cause Iraq is not perfect after three years is just more disingenuous nonsense from the same collection of DinoCons too arrogant to admit they were wrong about Iraq from the start.

[Valin]

Few American officers are talking about perpetual occupation or even the need for more troops, but rather about the need for a lighter footprint, bolstered by teams of Special Forces and air support, to ensure Iraqi responsibility for their own future,. And the key to success — a diplomatic squeeze on the Sunnis to suppress terrorists in Nineveh and Anbar provinces in exchange for Shiite guarantees of more government inclusion — is now the acknowledged goal of both the Iraqi and American governments.

Now if only some of the armchair generals here would understand this....AKA It's not WWII.

Thousands in Iraq accept that they have crossed the Rubicon, and they must either make their own democracy work or suffer a fate worse than that of the boat people and the butchered in Southeast Asia when the Americans left.

I'm not saying this is what the left want, but this is what happened the last time they had their way. Some of us are still waiting to hear the words "we were wrong".

[Captain Kirk]

Pangloss Hanson ping!