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Originally posted by wolf
GETOUT stay in GETOUT stay in GETOUT shouldaneverbeentheretostart stay in ...
would someone please make up their mind, and advise me of the end result?
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Welcome right back to the lessons of VietNam - another war created by no smoking gun and outright lies from the president. Your confusion is repeatedly demonstrated in history and why educated people oppose 'war without the smokng gun'. No smoking gun is just one reason why we have no strategic objective and no exit strategy. An administration was lying so much about our reasons for invading Iraq as to even believe their own rhetoric: that all Iraqis would welcome liberation and then move on to democracy.
They so believed the world would fix itself if we only captured Saddam - rather than even plan for a post-Saddam Iraq or an exit strategy - political or military. Now we are the occupation army liberating people who did not want to be liberated. A military victory undermined by political leaders who failed to plan the political solution - as those same persons also failed to do after the Kuwait liberation. These are damning accusations.
How does one fight a war without a strategic objective? Again and exactly the lessons of VietNam. There are no simple answers until the adminstration first comes clean - so a realistic strategic objective can then be planned for. Instead they all go on TV to even attack Richard Clarke.
Right now you don't care how many Americans are massacred in Iraq because 30 daily attacks on your Army are symptoms of what happens when an administration lies. Those deaths are secondary symptoms that will continue, maybe for years, because the real problem is not solved. You care first and foremost whether your president is being honest. 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management. An honest president can then create a clear strategic objective (ie. WWII) - or will pull out (ie. Somolia).
When the Joint Cheifs say what will be required to complete a war, then a smart president says (like George Sr did) give them what they need.
Scary when Paul Bremmer gives his hardline speech. There stands a ghost image of Gen William Westmoreland and Henry Cabot Lodge who said same. Your question is a classic: when will we see light at the end of the tunnel. Exactly what happens when war has no smoking gun and the leadership lies about it. Keep posting as you have because this president has no real world plan to end the Iraqi invasion. Your confusion are symptoms directly traceable to top management.