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3 posted on 01/14/2004 12:57:07 AM PST by Prime Choice (Americans are a spiritual people. We're happy to help members of al Qaeda meet God.)

I would like to examine the word "quagmire" and find out what exactly it means. If a quagmire is a situation we feel we are stuck in (and will be for a time to come), then Iraq is a quagmire. If a quagmire is a situation that we are stuck in, and it is going badly, then I don't think Iraq is one. I suppose if people use a twisted definition of the word (not knowing any better) it might seem perfectly obvious to them that no matter how well the situation goes in Iraq, it is a quagmire, merely because we are committed to the country.

4 posted on 01/14/2004 1:04:22 AM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)