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Originally Posted by alansmithee
I think that partially, it was protesters who undercut our efforts in the Vietnam war. The press coverage of that war seemed quite negative from the onset, and helped contribute to the horrible morale that was often found in Vietnam. Had there been the same anti-war movements in WWII or the Korean war, I feel America's involvement in those would have been much less successful. The constant protests and negative press doesn't allow the country to fight a war how it should be-quick and dirty.
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Hard to fight for democracy in other countries and question our own. No place better to start I guess than Ammendmant 1. War sucks. watching 1 out of 3 men die in your company in the case of Vietnam created bad morale. Being in a fight that you don't know what "won" means creates bad morale. I get calls from guys over there asking me what I know. Elections in December? 50,000 , 100,000 Iraqi's trained? What's it going to take?
They deserve to know.
The answer is obvious - we're going nowhere. Bush and Cheney think this is the new Saudia Arabia meanwhile Iran and Iraq are dry-humping in the back room. We have just put the largest reserve of oil in the world in the hand of Shiite Muslims. The crazy ones. That leash won't be coming off until they take our money and weapons and use them to kick us out. For example: 1979 Iran, 1987 Iraq, 1990 Afghanistan...
It's not that the Democrats don't have an answer, the answer just hasn't changed. Come home. We are nothing more than bodygaurds for al-Jaafari and the Shiite cleric while they create openly an Constitution based on Islamic Fundamentalism.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...iraq_bush_wa_1
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I do not want people who are religious to give up their religion. I want them to apply their religion in the proper way," al-Jaafari said at the Council on Foreign Relations. "The constitution should reflect the views of the majority. The majority are Muslim. This does not mean we deny the rights of others."
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But al-Jaafari seemed less committed to the concept of a free press when he was asked about the government's decision to ban the Al-Jazeera television network. The problem that Al-Jazeera has is not with the government, it is with the Iraqi people," al-Jaafari said, accusing the network of being soft on terrorists. "Any distortion of the truth is viewed by the Iraqi people as very negative, and they will not accept this."
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Let freedom ring... sigh.