On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> Oh come off it Robert. > >> Since when did that become a defined purpose? > >> > > > > That was always a purpose of the Iraq War. > > Stated where? The rhetoric before the invasion was to find and > prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction, and eliminate a safe > haven for Al-Qaeda. The agenda was to bring down Saddam Husein. > What did you think they intended to do after they removed Saddam? Giving the Iraqis the ability to choose their own future was always a primary consideration. Odierno, Al-Qaeda in Iraq is building strength and is now being run > by disaffected Iraqis instead of foreigners, so it is even more > entrenched than when US forces invaded. > It's up to the Iraqi government to do a good enough job to bring people back to their side. They have been struggling to figure out how to govern together, that's part of the learning process of becoming a democratic state. Would you prefer they had an angry strongman dictator to keep a lid on things? > Establishing a democratic state seems to be an afterthought and not > one that has been very well executed, something to use as a reason > when the stated reasons failed. > > So, really? We won in Iraq? Damn strange definition of victory. > > On this front, our goals were to help the Iraqis establish a democratic state and give them the opportunity to govern themselves. We did that, now it's up to them to make it work. You think the Shiites and Kurds would rather have Saddam back? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:330713 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
