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"We have been mucking around in Iraq longer than it took us to win WWII"

How exactly do you define win? The US military has been involved in the reconstruction of several dozen countries over the past century. That takes time. The average is probably close to 5 years to rebuild a societies infrastructure.

WWII didn't end with VE or VJ day. We spend years afterwords rebuilding Germany and Japan.

Democrats had control for 50 years. It takes a while to turn back the clock. I think Republicans due better when they stick to their guns (e.g. conservative principles). But Bush has accomplished a lot in the past 6 years, we will retake the house in the next election and continue to move forward.

I just hope we don't cut and run in Iraq. We wouldn't just be abandoning a country like in Vietnam, we really would be creating a safe haven for terrorism of all forms.

-paridel

WWII didn't end with VE or VJ day. We spend years afterwords rebuilding Germany and Japan.

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The difference is we weren't taking casualities during those years. In 1946 we occupied Germany, Japan, Italy, and northern Africa and we had 5 people KIA and 1 who died of wounds in the whole year, world wide.

After WW II we broke their will to resist before we started nation building. That's what we should have done in Iraq.

The neo-cons like Pearl who are now stabbing Bush in the back, convinced him and Cheney that there would be no resistance in Iraq. which was an assanine assertion.

Iraq wouldn't be an issue if we had 6 battle casualties this year. Tonight the Republican Party is paying the price for that mistake.