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I don't understand why all of you are arguing so vehemently about this. It's as if you can't see past the surface of this thing. For all of you Iraq-war supporters, do you sicerely believe that trying to plan an exit strategy is a bad thing? I find that hard to believe. Are we so caught up in semantics that we can't discuss this simple issue of making a plan without looking over our shoulders to ensure that we aren't in agreement with our fellow american democrats? And for critics of the Iraq-war, do you really believe that it is possible to just pull the troops out at this point? Do you not see how the repercussions of doing that would be, to put it mildly, bad on a huge scale? Even if you don't care what would happen to Iraq, just imagine what would happen to us, democrats and republicans alike, if we simply up and left, after doing what we have done there, and then just hanging them out to dry. We would never recover, especially with the whole world watching our every move.
Whether you agree with the war or not is moot now; the war is there, it is hapening. It cannot be erased. Planning on it's conclusion is what needs to be done now. How can we argue that is a bad thing?
Murtha's message isn't anything we haven't heard before, nor is the white house's reaction to it. But a lot of the reactions here imply that we have never seen this type of thing before, and don't know how to discuss it without polarizing ourselves from the very people we wish to discuss it with.
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