Subj : The War Has No Clothes
To   : Frank Reid
From : Deuce
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 12:03 pm

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

 >  > 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?  Do we
 > just say "screw the Iraqis" 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?  How long before we'd be back to cauterize the festering sore that
 > would infect every surrounding nation and beyond?
 > 
 > What's the exit strategy?

You're the one who wants to wait for victory of some sort.  If the US were to
pull out, I'm sure the UN peacekeepers would be there in short order if it's
required.  If 98% of Irqai citizens want freedom, they can quite handily arrest
and kill 2% of their population without american help (Even if it costs 4% to
do it).  As for the "festering sore" bit... it's already there, is the US
staying to "cauterize" Iraq?

When you stupidly blunder into a situation, there's quite often not a clean
exit stratagy available to you.  Say Iraq is a rather full womens bathroom, and
the US is a man... the man blunders into the womens bathroom by mistake...
instead of apoligizing and leaving red-faces, he sticks around to help the
women overcome their mental anguish over having been seen.  The BEST exit
strategy in such a situation is to leave immediately, apologizing all the way.

There is an official government of Iraq (Their official homepage appears to be
iraq.usembasy.gov interestingly enough).  The US should now pull out and
provide the same support they do with other generally friendly countries having
massive internal problems.

If you'll willingly admit that the war is won, and the troops are just hanging
out over there absorbing casualties until Bush and friends come up with some
way to get them out without loking like idiots, hemmoraging money to send MORE
troops to the location of the war that's already won, how can you say that the
population wanting the troops home damnit isn't support of the troops?

If, on the other hand, you claim the war is NOT already won, please outline the
victory conditions for me.

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