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Originally Posted by willravel
It's not Korea. It's Vietnam without trees, and people can't seem to wrap their heads around this.
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One key difference is that terrorist will attack us on our soil. perhaps we can reasonable disagree on the war strategy, i.e. invading Iraq as a part of the war on terror, but do we disagree on the issue of being at war with an enemy who has declared war on us. If we are at war and the war is real, what the significance of comparing this war with Vietnam.
What is the alternative in your mind? Are you willing to convert to a radical form of Islam?
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We don't have the funds, military power,
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If you compare our military spending in this war as a percentage of GDP compared to past wars, you will see that we are not spending much on a relative basis.
Here is where I agree. Chaney's point in the quote is that this war won't go away. So we will either get the will to win or it will continue.
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We have lost and will continue to lose so long as we stay, and what's worse is that our being in Iraq is allowing al Qaeda to galvanize and recruit Iraqis.
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Iraq is the global front on the war against terror. If terrorist secure Iraq, they will move to another target. Why don't people see that?
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Cheney is a politician and a businessman. He's not a leader.
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True, Chaney is a behind the scenes guy. Also, true he is a politician and a businessman - he knows how to get results. Like I asked who is going to assume this role in a Democratic administration? Kucinich? Carter? Reed?
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He doesn't have the US or Iraq's best interest in mind. He has his own interests in mind and as long as that's the case, he will be precisely the type we don't need in Washington D.C. He needs to be who he represents himself to be: a Christian. "Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be called Sons (and Daughters) of God."
We need Bobby Kennedy. We need someone who has a clear set of moral guidelines and who will lead with those. We need someone uninterested in serving himself, choosing instead to serve the people.
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Bobby Kennedy?!? I thought he was dead. You supported what the Kennedy administration did with the Bay of Pigs? The whole Cuba crisis? They seemed to be pretty aggressive in those days, don't you agree? Didn't we get lucky that their game of chicken with the USSR didn't lead to nuclear war?