-Kevin
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From: "Schuster, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 11:39 AM
Subject: Opinions?
> TIME TO COME HOME?
>
> The following commentary is another example of how we don't' follow other
> stations' party line as we review The Point from 2003.
>
> It's time to withdraw our troops from Iraq. Or is it?
>
> Major combat operations ended last spring. Critics argue that after five
> months its time our troops come home.
>
> Now, how about some perspective. World War Two and the Korean War ended
more
> than 50 years ago, but there are still about 72,000 troops in Germany and
> 38,000 in South Korea. Little old Kosovo still has about 1600 American
> troops although that conflict ended in 1999. Bill Clinton promised all US
> forces would be out of Bosnia-Herzegovina by December 1996, but 3100
remain.
> Where are the calls for withdrawal from these countries?
>
> Now, there are no U.S. troops in Vietnam. But I guess we lost that war.
The
> last of 20,000 US military left Haiti five years after Clinton ordered its
> 1994 invasion. Jean Bertrande Aristide, reinstalled as Haitian President
by
> the U.S., rules one of the most brutal countries in the Western
Hemisphere.
> Now, there's a success story for you.
>
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