TSGracchus
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You're right. Only electing Obama and Congressional Democrats will change a thing.
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Really? They had control for almost two years now. The promise (lie) to the voters is still fresh on their lips to start pulling the troops out. Yet they allowed the surge with put more troops in Iraq (btw which is a good thing and props to them for it)
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Considering that those "invaders" wouldn't be there if we were not there being invaders ourselves, that's not a very convincing argument.
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This is pure BS and you know it. Are you forgetting the war between Iraq and Iran in the 80's? Iran was rebuilding, the proof we see in Iraq everyday, where Iraq was talking big but their military was still feeling the effects of a sanction progress and the military defeat in 91. I was in Kuwait city (we 82nd secured the airport to make way for reinforcements). We destroyed the Republican Guard and the majority of their armour as they retreated back into Iraq. Iran was waiting in the fold for a chance to invade. Iran uses 60% of its oil and imports 40%. With the Iraq oil fields, Iran could become self efficient.
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However, I was not literally suggesting we were trying to "destroy Iraq." That was a reference to one of the most infamous statements from the Vietnam War: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." We weren't literally trying to "destroy Vietnam," either, but such destruction is an inevitable consequence of invasion and occupation by a foreign power, such as ourselves.
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This is crap. We have started rebuilding Iraq inter-structure because it was in ruin because of Saddam neglect. One street there would a Grand Palace and on the next would be abandoned schools, housing, clinics and shops. We reopened schools that were closed for years and the kids was being taught by women from the community or by tribe elders.
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The country will be in shambles when we leave regardless of when that happens; hell, it's in shambles now! But the sooner we do, the sooner that will be rectified. We are trying to do a job -- or at least pretending to try to do a job, I'm not sure we're actually trying -- that can't be done by us. That is always a recipe for disaster.
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Its was in shambles when we got there. 12 years of sanctions does that to a country. We have rebuilt more than we have destroyed.
This is pure ingorance from someone that has never stepped foot in a country they think they know everything about. You should stop before I start posting personal pictures the rebuilding and new structures being built by our engineers.
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Well, at least you're admitting we broke it. I suppose that's progress. When you figure out that our presence is keeping it broken, and that there's no way WE can fix it, it has to be fixed by the Iraqis themselves, and they can't do that as long as we're there keeping the situation broken, then you will have finished coming to your senses on this matter.
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More clueless rant from someone who is just spouting off about something they have read about without seeing it first hand. Not all your fault as good news out of Iraq is seldom reported by the MSM because good news equals bad ratings and high polling for Bush.
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Indeed it won't, but it won't miss the one we're propping up, either. Sometimes, really in the majority of wars, there aren't any good guys. And sometimes the only winning move is not to play
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What would you know about war? Just because I read a book about plumbing does it make me a master plumber?