> I'm asking a serious question of you. I'm not being sarcastic. > > Could you explain to me exactly what the military was sent to > Iraq to do, and how we will know when it's done?
The invasion of Iraq was to topple the Hussein regime and to break the Baath party in Iraq. Both of these objectives have been met. After the end of major conventional conflict it was decided that we were also going to take on the responsibility to rebuild and secure the new nation of Iraq. In my eyes, when are we done? When I start hearing 75-80%of the soldiers I know saying we've made the place secure and the Iraqis can handle it, then I'll think it's time to begin a scale down, not even a full withdrawal. > Also, if why doesn't matter, do you think it is ok for a > leader to deploy troops under false pretenses? Absolutely not, prove in a court of law he did so and you'll have won me over. Otherwise we've spilled blood there. Been hurt there, and we don't leave except on our own terms. Here is the reason I don't really care about the justifications given by the Bush administration, because there were ten other reasons. We were completely justified in doing what we did. Iraq committed multiple acts of war against the U.S. > Is "we broke it, we bought it" sufficient reason to spill > even more blood, or would a more rational approach be to pay > the Iraqs for the damage, as we have clearly already done? Who said I'm being rational? Ideology isn't always rational, faith isn't always rational. When you commit troops to combat you should be making a solemn oath that no matter what, we will follow through, all the way 100%. No retreat, no surrender. No remorse. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:281391 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
