Subj : The War Has No Clothes
To   : Frank Reid
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 08:34 am

  Re: The War Has No Clothes
  By: Frank Reid to Deuce on Fri Sep 30 2005 06:49:00

 >  > The war is already over.  The US won.  People are now supporting the sold
 >  > by trying to take care of that last bit... safe return.
 > 
 > And that gets to my initial question on HOW we bring them back?

Jumbo jets.  Steam ships.  Give 'em canoes.  Hell, make 'em swim!

 > Do we just say "screw the Iraqis" 

Oh, the irony!

 > and let the country spiral into chaos?  Is it fair to the 98% of Iraqi 
 > citizens who want freedom to allow Islamic extremists to establish a 
 > theocracy of the radical few with the biggest guns?

It is American occupation forces that have armed the Islamic extremists 
and continue to train them in the use of these arms.  And if I remember 
correctly, the "radical few" in question nuimber more than 65% of the 
total population.  

 > How long before we'd be back to cauterize the festering sore that
 > would infect every surrounding nation and beyond?

Shoot, you're not even OUT yet and you're already plannimg to go back?

 > What's the exit strategy?

There isn't one that will satisfy you.  No matter how long you wait, no 
matter what you do, when you eventually leave, the Shi'ites will over 
throw your puppet government and replace it with a fundamentalist 
theocracy.  Then will come unity with Iran, forming the largest single 
muslim political bloc in the middle east, with a longing for Mecca and 
Medina, and a thirst for Israeli blood.  The rest of the middle eastern 
states will not last long after that.

The sensible "exit strategy" would have been not to poke a stick at this 
particular nest of ants in the FIRST place.  Now, the only reasonable exit 
strategy left is to get your people home as soon as possible, with the 
minimum American fatalities.  The middle-eastern blood-bath has already 
been drawn by the cluelessness of your political leadership, and their 
inability to see the geo-political realities written in the history of 
that region.

You've got a tiger by the tail.  It's going to be interesting to watch, 
when you finally let him go!


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