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Long piece of second-guessing, Bush-bashing "news analysis" on the front page of America's Pravda. Among other things, it repeats the refuted "General Franks wanted more troops ad didn't get them" line. I guess I'm supposed to take the word of an unnamed "staff officer" over General Franks.
1 posted on 10/19/2004 12:28:37 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
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Didn't bother to read the article through. Didn't feel like I needed to given the source and the topic. My immediate reaction was "You idiots, this is why W announced an end to major military operations, not the end of the war." Bush clearly understood that there would be residual combat during reconstruction. That's why our guys still wear armor and carry guns. But logic is lost on sycophants.
2 posted on 10/19/2004 12:41:21 AM PDT by DeltaZulu
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Even if the article is truthful, the mission went, and is going, as well as could be expected by a reasonable person who doesn't have his head up his own arse.

The next one will be better, and so on...practice, practice, practice.

3 posted on 10/19/2004 12:50:05 AM PDT by dasboot (<img src="XXX">)
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More leftist spin.

The "insurgency" is a product of Syria and Iran and our own antiwar movement.

After we defeat Hussein's regime, Syria and Iran were indeed shocked and awed.

The left's incessant attacks upon the president began to have a political toll, though, and Syria and Iran saw an opening. Iran had spent years building up a network inside Iraq. Syria decided to renew its old ties with the Iraqi Baathist movement.

And so it started, men, money, supplies, and leadership flowed into Iraq.

The most obvious answer was to respond with military force. But one media generated scandel after another continued to sap Bush's political strength. Bush could not enforce the Bush doctrine, and this was, and is, as obvious to our enemies as it is to us.

The insurgency, or more accurately Iran and Syria, are now making a major push to win the war. This doesn't mean either hope to defeat our forces militarily, they can't, but they fervently believe that if they can kill enough Americans to get Kerry elected president they will indeed have won. There is little reason to doubt their take on this either.

The anti-war movement in America, and the Democrat Party and mainstream media it has co-opted, has blood on its hands.


4 posted on 10/19/2004 12:50:19 AM PDT by swilhelm73 (Democrats and free speech are like oil and water)
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Wouldn't 450,000 troops in Irag mean 450% more targets?


5 posted on 10/19/2004 12:51:52 AM PDT by america-rules (It's US or THEM so what part don't you understand ?)
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Interesting article -

I've been wondering if the Iraq plan all along wasn't to melt into the population to fight another day - knowing the U.S. would "rush" to get out because of it being the PC thing to do - (no UN support) -

Turkey played around a long time - throwing things off and that didn't help

Makes it hard to tell just who the friends are - both in other nations - and with our own government -


just a thought -


6 posted on 10/19/2004 12:56:59 AM PDT by Pastnowfuturealpha
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As a battlefield for terrorists, the post-Iraq war has been a blessing.

The strategic advantage of terrorists is they are almost invisible and difficult to fight en masse.

Shooting fish in a barrel is preferable to the alternative.


7 posted on 10/19/2004 2:07:28 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (How do you ask a man to be the last man to VOTE for a mistake?)
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