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Originally Posted by politicophile
My quandary is this: if you believe that the best thing to do in Iraq is to pull out all troops ASAP, how can you support the troops if the very success of those troops would prevent them from coming home?
If the options are failure and a swift withdrawal or success and a substantially later withdrawal, which option is preferable?
Alternatively, is success compatible with immediate withdrawal? How?
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The problem is that this administration has repeatedly shown that the standards by which success is measured are more subject to politics than any kind of grand vision. We already know they don't have WMDs. According to the president, our mission was accomplished years ago.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
And the way to make sure these things don't happen is a premature pull out. We stay until the job is done, no time tables, we can not do to the people of Iraq what we did to the people of Vietnam.
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I thought conservatives were supposed to be the realists. What makes you think that our presence in iraq will ever be able to provide the stability and civility necessary to achieve the vague notion of success you subscribe to?