For the first time in memory I shall vote straight Republican. I have two reasons for this departure from my standard voting practices
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I agree with your points - the invasion went off great - especially considering a lack of a second front and sandstorm-related weather issues fudging up communications and sat pics. We did (and do) really needed more troops and an actual plan for occupation and suppression of radical elemtns instead of wishful thinking and denial (the year plus of "Oh, there's no planned insurgency." "They're dead-enders." "Turnin' a corner now!" really pissed me off and got a lot of brave US soldiers and Iraqi civilians and cops killed needlessly). It was the overall arrogance and denial involved in everything outside of the three-week invasion that made a mess of the damn place, imo.
Pulling out now would be an utter disaster. Vietnam we could pull out of, the North Vietnamese had no interest in pursuit, nor any means to. The Islamic terrorists in Iraq (which, among those fighting us, is still a minority really. Most fighting us are Iraqis and consider themselves patriots of one sort or another) won't be happy with just chasing us out - they'll go after neighboring countries and Israel and any American targets in the area they can. I highly doubt they'd have the means to do anything to our homeland in a more than symbolic way... but it'd still be a mess. Plus, the poor fuckers we leave behind will be massacred. Powell was right: We break it, we bought it.
It'd have been cheaper to just bribe every Iraqi ten thousand to overthrow Saddam and kill the clerics, heh.
Pulling out now would be an utter disaster. Vietnam we could pull out of, the North Vietnamese had no interest in pursuit, nor any means to. The Islamic terrorists in Iraq (which, among those fighting us, is still a minority really. Most fighting us are Iraqis and consider themselves patriots of one sort or another) won't be happy with just chasing us out - they'll go after neighboring countries and Israel and any American targets in the area they can. I highly doubt they'd have the means to do anything to our homeland in a more than symbolic way... but it'd still be a mess. Plus, the poor fuckers we leave behind will be massacred. Powell was right: We break it, we bought it.
It'd have been cheaper to just bribe every Iraqi ten thousand to overthrow Saddam and kill the clerics, heh.
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