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Well whether you like the truth or not it takes bravery, of heroic proportions, to speak that truth to power as John Kerry, Jane Fonda, and now John Murtha have done. It is the cowardly position to sit back and slander the records of people who have served and spoken as true American patriot heroes.
The point about escalation is that there in no clean slate where our past actions are not relevant. You can't build a palace on a pile of shit.
No one in Iraq "bloodied our nose" prior to 2003 hence your confusion over the paper tiger claims. Murtha has not suggested that we "cut and run" as Bush likes to straw-man characterize. He's simply saying that our current position is not sustainable (see Roachboy's post above). We have a choice of full-blown colonialism or of ceding our power to the Iraqi people.
It's disgusting to me that people like Murtha, Powell, and Shinseki who actually learned the lessons of Vietnam first hand have been so thoroughly shunned by the chickenhawks in power.
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