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Originally Posted by aceventura3
And I still don't see how a person, who says he cares about people, like Obama, unconditionally say that he will remove the troops from Iraq without consideration for a power struggle that could lead to who knows what. Prior to the surge I felt our national commitment to "fixing it" was lacking. Now that conditions are going well, I think we need to let the occupation run its course.
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Conditions continue to worsen. The only reason we're seeing violence starting to drop of is due to a combination of mass exodus, high fatality rates, and certain gangs finally having cleansed the areas they're in. The problem is each of these conditions is going to eventually result in further instability. Worse yet, the coalition forces are still targets for the frustrations of the insurgents, which means further violence but more violence concentrated on our troops. BTW, there was just a report of a suicide bombing that killed 16 people.
Leaving Iraq will lend to stability. It's that simple.
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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I understand the view of those who did not think we had the right to invade Iraq and then occupy the country. I also understand the dilemma with reconciling the concept of preemptive war with national defense as outlined in the Constitution. I think these two issues are still very compelling for discussion. We just can not seem to get off of the question about Bush being deceptive or not.
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They're linked.