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Harry[_5_]

On 6/18/10 5:01 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:37:48 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

had limited national interest in Iraq.

I don't see any compelling national interest in either.

In Iraq., we have a containment issue with Iran. We have a possibility of a
failed state thanks to GWB's failures.

It is a failed state because we toppled Saddam without any plan for a
successor and that was GWs fault..

Iraq was about Israel not the US.

Partially true, but not for GWB.

It was always about Israel. If we just wanted cheap oil, Saddam would
have sold us all we wanted.

Afghanistan is pure lunacy ... Some misguided revenge thing I don't
understand.

It was about going after bin laden and stopping a repeat performance. That's
what has got to be ensured going forward.

The covert action made sense but the invasion/occupation was stupid.

The covert mission to get Osama made some sense in 4q01, 1q02 but as
soon as he got to a place where we lost the support of the locals, it
was over.

He hasn't completely, and we need to get out asap. But, again, we can't just
leave and expect him to stay away.

We have virtually zero influence in the Pakistan border region and
blowing up innocent civilians is just making it worse..

We are creating more terrorists than we are killing.

Perhaps... counter insurgency is a tough business. Perhaps if we stopped
torturing prisoners and finally close Gitmo, that would be a good start.

Are we going to go into Somalia next?

We're already there!

Covertly and not particularly effectively. We can't even stop the
pirates and they are all on the coast where we could actually get
them. Again we have absolutely zero influence in the interior of the
country.
If you think we should, rent "Black Hawk Down" and get back to me.

No one hates our kids. That's just
extremist nonsense.

That was just for Bob who thinks we all hate someone.

OIC. Sorry.

Which one is Bob again?

BP who thinks we all hate the darkie or whatever other racial slur he
uses.

Most of the righties here post racially based slurs against Obama.