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...There shouldn't be any exit strategy for the Bush Administration. The U.S. has to stay the course and clean up the mess it has created; otherwise it could leave behind a pan-Arab war. The demons that George W. Bush unleashed in Iraq had been held at bay for decades. Has he accomplished his mission of finding wmd or brought freedom, democracy, peace and progress to the Iraqis? The situation in Iraq is worse than those in Bosnia, Somalia and Congo combined. As for the Iraqis, it has now been acknowledged that although life wasn't the best, they...
...have," said U.S. military spokesman Gen. William B. Caldwell in Baghdad. "But that's not our decision. That's an Iraqi government decision." At the White House, the President's men have been all too eager to lie low and let someone else take the fall for the latest mess. "The President is focused on the way forward," the deputy White House press secretary Scott Stanze told reporters. "So these issues are best addressed out of Iraq...
...then sabotaged his arguments by name calling. Does it promote fruitful dialogue to call President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "mad" and say he sounds "like a lunatic"? Has Ahmadinejad done anything remotely as mad and lunatic as invading Iraq? Demonizing and name calling are what have got us into this horrific mess in the Middle East. Carl J. Ekberg Purgitsville, West Virginia...
...been at its most effective when it hasn't been fighting - for instance as a deterrent threat that helped keep the peace during the cold war. With one exception, when it has gone into combat, it has sooner or later retreated in defeat and left behind a mess to be cleaned up later. This happened in Vietnam in the '70s, Lebanon in the '80s and Somalia in the '90s. The exception was the liberation of Kuwait, but this achievement was devalued by President Bush Jr., who clearly regarded the situation in the area as unfinished family business that...
...then sabotaged his arguments by name calling. Does it promote fruitful dialogue to call President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "mad" and say he sounds "like a lunatic"? Has Ahmadinejad done anything remotely as mad and lunatic as invading Iraq? Demonizing and name calling are what have got us into this horrific mess in the Middle East. Carl J. Ekberg Purgitsville, West Virginia...