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Originally Posted by Lebell
Well, thank you for clearing that up.
I made that post because I have seen people on this board defend such tactics.
I agree, we SHOULD expect it and not be surprised by it.
What bothers me is a) when people want to cut and run when the inevitable tactics are used and b) is when people defend those who use such tactics.
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I fear that our government, specifically the Bush administration did not learn
from the U.S. experience in Vietnam, and therefore, as a country, we are
destined to repeat it.
For too long, Bush and company will refuse to acknowledge that they have led our troops into a wasting and unresolvable conflict. They will go through
the pretense of training effective Iraqi security forces, and of facilitating the
creation of a credible and representative Iraqi government. Then, as the
death toll of our troops continues to mount, Bush will declare victory and
withdraw U.S. forces not assigned to the new U.S. bases in Iraq.
A short while later, the forces who are opposing our troops currently will
overwhelm the U.S. trained Iraqi secuirty forces, and Iraq will become what
it would have if Bush had simply withdrawn U.S. invasion troops in April, 2003.
The only thing in question is the number of U.S. casualties who will be named
on the Iraq war memorial on the mall in Washington. Someday, a president
will learn the lesson that, our military is best suited to fighting unconstrained
war to defeat an enemy that is a direct threat to our national security.
Warfare with clearly layed out justification from the start to the finish, with
a well planned exit strategy.