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Top General Addresses Burden On U.S. Ground Forces; Bush To Announce Shorter Tours
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- Petraeus: Troop Buildup In Iraq Unlikely
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That''s because they need to send those troops to Afghanistan to fight the REAL Terrorists and Al Quaida - That''s where the REAL WAR is and that job was not finished - therefore we need to fight that war again!
It''s all FUBAR! - Reply to this comment
- "but ask them to fight in the name of the government against their own people and they suddenly don''''t understand orders and feel the need to go for lunch." Posted by SamTheTVCat
As they should. If my own government ask me to fight my own people, so that my government could continue its corruption against us, my answer to them would be a lot less polite than what you describe about the Iraqis. - Reply to this comment
- "why don''''t we partition the country and work on keeping the factions moderates and allies committed to combatting terrorism? Then get the heck out!" Posted by SamTheTVCat
The first part won''t work, because it is not our right to partition another sovereign state, and Iraq is recognized as such by the UN. As for "terrorism", this is the name given to all who actively oppose Bush''s occupation, Reagan called his terrorists "freedom fighters" The truth is there are no terrorists.
As for "get the heck out", that is the most intelligent move we could make, but, as you can see by some of the posts, there are still a few death worshipers out there who want to use nuclear weapons against everybody, based only on vague speculation about improbable futures. McCain is one of these nuts, so we can see that some of these deluded death worshipers are even in government. - Reply to this comment
- pt 1
--"Gen. David Petraeus, closely questioned by lawmakers for a second day, described Iraq as a frail state still struggling to provide its own security"--
They showed a clip of these Iraqi troops on CNN and like they''re supposedly cool when it comes to protecting their own neighborhoods against competing interests (like Sunnis will guard against Shiite militias, and vice versa), but ask them to fight in the name of the government against their own people and they suddenly don''t understand orders and feel the need to go for lunch.
Isn''t ''fragility'' and ''struggle'' a product of the lack of desire for a centralized government that forces these disparate groups to cooperate and compromise? I mean, if Sunnis and Shiites have basically been at war for thousands of years doesn''t that seem to show that they''re just fundamentally not likely to be able to form a ''democracy'', even ignoring the presence of the oil (which inhibits democracy)? - Reply to this comment
- pt 2
If Sunnis and Shiites agreed to a cease-fire but haven''t demonstrated any desire to meet the political benchmarks that have been laid out, doesn''t that seem to show that they really have an agenda different from Bush''s ''democracy'' and that they''re just biding their time right now?
Like if we KNOW democracy can''t exist when a country''s economy is oil-based, why don''t we partition the country and work on keeping the factions moderates and allies committed to combatting terrorism? Then get the heck out! If McCain gets elected on the assumption that it''s the surge that is keeping violence down rather than militias who were saving their firepower to fight each other which forces the militias to turn on the troops instead, what then? Is no-timeline McCain and his supporters willing to institute a draft to have that go at ''democracy'' through maintenance of ''security''? - Reply to this comment
- "Who Knows?" Posted by dumbshun
No one knows, and few care, because it won''t happen. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by davidnina
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Reported. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by SHURCH4TRUTH
Do you really expect someone whose lies resulted in our occupying a country that never attacked us, to criticize another country that also subjugates?
It is clear that Bush doesn''t thing that anything is wrong with that. - Reply to this comment
- Oh, I forgot General. You will be resigning on January 9th. Then you will just complain about how we should have won the war!
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- Oh, Almighty Petreus. You are above criticism. You are to be honored for your selfless service to this country. You are the Savior of all Iraq.
Now stop acting like a politician, and give us the straight scoop.
I wonder what your tune will be when a Democrat is in the White House.
Trust me, we''re watching! - Reply to this comment
