"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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We can't even stabilize a country we've been occupying for three years
with 150,000 troops, and you want us to do the same with a dozen other
countries?

The other countries are the ones working to destabilize the one we're
already fighting in. Cut off the head and the body will wither away and
die.


You're in a dream world, and obviously have no idea of what the word
"destabilize" means. Bush marched into that country without a plan, and
his crooked vice president said we'd be met with garlands of flowers.
What is going on in Iraq right now is the fault of the United States and
its incompetent, arrogant, deceitful President and his henchmen.

Harry, here is an example of why you (democrats) are loosing in this
country. It would have been better to have said, Bush marched into a
country without a realistic plan for after the war. The entire
administration, including Cheney, the vice president are nieve and
uneducated as to the realities of the Islamic culture. They have been
quoted as saying that our troops would be "greeted with garlands of flowers
for freeing the people of Iraq from a brutal dictator". We can not have an
administration that is this nieve when we are fighting a war of ideas and
hearts.

Now I respond with, I agree with the presidents policies but you are right,
he got a reality wakeup call. Going into Iraq was a good idea, the
implementation was flawed because we didn't understand the culture, we
projected ourselves into their position. We would have stepped up to the
plate to restore services and order without a gun being held to our heads.
The culture is broken by our standards and needs to be fixed. An example is
necessary for the rest of the middle east and Iraq could be a lesson for
change, provided we are smart enough to take advantage of this opportunity.