Posted on 10/20/2008 5:38:41 PM PDT by meandog
I beg to differ some. I saw Rumsfeld stumping for a 'small footprint'. When folks like McCain were saying we need a surge, I wanted the RINOs to sit down and shut up. But they were right and Rumy and I were wrong. Bush replaced Rumsfeld with Gates and Petraeus and a job well done to them all and most importantly a job well done to our Troops.
Every war has its mistakes, but let it be known that our military went faster and further behind enemy lines and removed the leaders quicker then any military in the history of the world. With the least amount of people dead too. The execution of 'the War' was excellent. We have a problem with insurgents. Germany had bombs going off five years after the end of WWII. We are doing OK in Iraq, we have to keep at it. The basic execution was sound. We had to adapt, improvise, and overcome a few situation, but that is in any war. Now we have to finish the job so we never have to go back.
Mr Trump. Please call. You don’t know the facts.
On this much we concur; Hussein was badly mauled in Gulf War I but he was let off the hook by Geo. HW Bush. War is meant to fight until a surrender is given...not a cease fire. History has shown that in cases where a cease fire has been declared (Korea, French Indochina) the war doesn't just go away.
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