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Why the Democrats cant stop the Iraq war
clipped by: gingembre
clippers remarks: To finish the point: "If they are able to meet these benchmarks, the Democrats (and Bush, for that matter) could declare victory. If they dont meet these benchmarks, then the Democrats could claim that we helped the Iraqis enough that they should have been able to meet these guidelines. This would warrant the claim that the Iraqis lack the will to engage in useful nation building and thus the failure is theirs not ours.Bush cannot accept this proposal because Bush knows that the Democrats will claim forever that he and the party that supported him got us into an unwinnable war."
Interesting points made re: US not being accustomed to defeat; too long to clip, go to the source
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Sen. Aikman once famously said of the war in Vietnam that we should just declare that we have won and leave. Why the hell not?
The lesson of Vietnam was that we shouldnt get into foreign wars in which you can not tell the enemy from the good guys and where the enemy can melt into sanctuaries in the jungle or desert sands or wherever, sanctuaries which they can use for R & R and resupply.
The problem is that Iraq turned out to be not only just like Vietnam in that enemy and friend look alike and that the bad guys were able to melt into the cities and desert just as the Vietnamese melted into the jungles, but was even worse in that there was an unseen potential for serious sectarian violence. This has turned into an unwinnable war. Too bad Bush didnt order our troops to leave after he proclaimed "Mission Accomplished." That way the US could have had a victory.
Democrats are trying to stop the war
the proposal that we set firm benchmarks for the Iraqi government to meet on certain dates.
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