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Reader Comments (8)
Cool! The surge worked? Great! Now we can bring our troops home. Mission accomplished!
Come January 20th, Obama will love the surge. Take that one to the bank if your bank is still there.
My God! KwAwk finally gets it! We finish the job, and THEN bring the troops home. Amazing.
This is as opposed to The One and his desire to withdraw BEFORE the job is done.
A few more quotes from The Lightbringer in regard to the surge:
"So, I think it is fair to say that the president has simply tried to gain another six months to continue on the same course that he's been on for several years now. It is a course that will not succeed."
"I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse."
"My assessment is that the surge has not worked and we will not see a different report eight weeks from now."
"Given the deteriorating situation, it is clear at this point that we cannot, through putting in more troops or maintaining the presence that we have, expect that somehow the situation is going to improve."
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Personally I wouldn't mind seeing our troops from Germany brought home first. The war ended there in 1945...it's about time Germany and the European Union start maintaining their own defense forces, instead of depending on us.
I'm with Zoy Clem on Germany and I would add Japan to the equation. Closing bases in Germany and Japan would save huge $$$ that we really need here at home right now. But on I'm with kwAwk on Iraq. Who cares what they call it. Go ahead and say the Surge worked if it makes you feel better. Let's announce victory and bring the troops home already.
Redbeard is the one who seems not to get it. The whole reason behind Bush's stay with-it-ness is in order to build permenant bases in Iraq. Bush, and McCain also, have never intended to 'bring our troops home'. That is the real kicker behind McCain's '100 years' statement. He didn't mean that we would be fighting in Iraq for 100 years he meant that we would simply be there for 100 years.
Now what I would say is that there isn't a peaceful way for troops to remain in Iraq for 100 years since they really just don't want us there. Alas, for Bush and Co. setting up permentant bases in Iraq was part of the point of going to Iraq in the first place, thus giving up on permentant bases would mean that their Iraq policy was a failure.
Wow.
The liberal's scorecard:
Lessons from WWII learned: 0
Lessons from Korea learned: 0
Lessons from Vietnam learned: -200
Lessons from DESERT STORM learned: 0
Lessons from Afghanistan learned: 0
Lessons from Iraq learned: 0