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Originally Posted by Seaver
You'd be saying the EXACT same thing if there was no vote. How they ran from it instead of debating.
The fact of the matter is 1.5 out of 10 Americans want to pull out of Iraq. The fact of the matter is Iraq will be an incubator for worldwide terrorism (instead of a battlefield it is now) if we pull out. The fact of the matter is there is no possible way of an immediate pull out without us stabbing ourselves in the back and twisting the knife.
If this was about the Senate demanding Bush to give status reports, I'd back you 100%. However you picked the wrong man to back. I respect what he's done but to pull out now would be unleashing hungry wolves in a pediatrician's office. They swiftly answered his call to pull out, it's not going to happen, he got what he wanted.
If he wanted to come out with a plan I'd love to hear it, but calling for the immediate withdrawl sounds like a plan to me. Simply cut and run, god knows I pray it doesnt happen.
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I do agree pulling everything out now could be a mistake. However, this is becoming a money pit with no signs of letting up. And I have a feeling if and when the time does come for us to leave we will have lost far far too much, there comes a time when losses need to be cut, whether we leave today or 10 years from now, the instability of the region will still lead to a civil war there. You have too many kings and power hungry men to allow any freedom to be in Iraq. It would not be in their (Saudi, Syria, Iran, Kuwait, Pakistan, etc) best interest, in fact it would threaten their hold on their people.
The President shows no plan to get out, no timetable and offers no debate.
I would have at least liked to hear what the Dems. had to say, not just a press release.
Personally, I believe our only hope of getting out of Iraq any time soon lays with getting the UN and allies to help us.