YNKYH8R
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I agree. But my point was more towards perceptions. Cheney and Bush have been admimant on pushing on the "wuss" factor. What will we look like to the world if we leave. They seem to flip-flop (to coin a phrase) about whose perception of America maters.cnredd said:What you've said is half right...The "war" cannot be won by military means alone...But diplomacy alone would be much worse...There HAS to be a combination...
But if they vote for it we have no choice. We may want the to drive a round safely in a Volvo but if they choose the Pinto it's not our fault.cnredd said:What MUST be done is to be combative against the ones who hold on to their radical beliefs WHILE changing the ideology so that future generations will not go that direction......
For me it's never been about patience. I think some people don't understand certain aspects.cnredd said:It's sad when some people don't have the patience for this and believe that if it's not done in the next few months, than it's not worth doing at all...
Bill O’Riley (two weeks ago) on the Today show was interviewed by Katie Couric and he blurted out (adlib) “it takes 7 weeks to train a soldier in the US military and then they go on to more advanced training right? Well we’ve been there over two years what’s taking so long.?!?” A certain SFC Welch was stationed in Iraq training the new Iraqi Army (he’s a senior Drill Instructor) he told me that when they first arrived they had a lot of desertions. When they went to storm Fallujah (or one of the times they did) they had 600 Iraqi troops ready to go. On the morning of the assault they had 200 the others left. Over time when they became more confident the numbers of deserters went down. So there is a reason it is taking longer.
But he didn’t fail to mention the terrorists they were capturing were coming from places like Syria and Saudi Arabia. He even went so far as to say that time would have been better spent going after SA instead of being in Iraq.
But I digress…for me it was never what we were doing there or how long it was going to take it was the reasons for being there.