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For those who want to pull out of Iraq I ask this: Why is it that when it came to a mass murdering tyrant, you wanted to give him more time to come clean with the world despite 17 UN sanctions that he had previously ignored over the space of 13 years and yet now, when it comes to this fledgling Democracy in Iraq, you will give it less than 5 years? Why such patience with a man who killed thousands of his own people each year? Why the rush to abandon the people of Iraq? Why not give Iraqi's the benefit of the doubt as you did for their former oppressor?

i would also like to note that the iraqi democracy is only 9 months old...

Liberals generally have the attention span of a crack baby?

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I don't know, Gix....probably the big difference is that the past four years has been far more costly.....both in terms of lives and money. That tends to make some a little more impatient I guess.

storm but the cost of doing nothing for over those 13 years has brought us to the point we are at today....... what would of been the cost of operating this war 20 years from now when all resources will probably be 10 times more then they are today.... And lets not forget over those same twenty years the enemy grows stronger and stronger..

Well, first, that's if you assume that we actually needed to fight this war. And, second, Iraq hadn't gotten any stronger in those 13 years, Gix....in fact, Iraq and Saddam were getting weaker. Prior to the first Gulf War, Iraq had the fourth largest army in the world.....and a very well equipped one at that. In the subsequent 13 years after much of his army was destroyed, Iraq did very little to regain the level of forces it had before the war. The sanctions and the no-fly zone enforcements were taking their toll....and, contrary to GWB's statements, he was contained.

this is where you and i differ.... you see iraq as the war in iraq.... i see it as a front in the war on terror/islamic extremisim.... im not going to sit hear and argue with you because our fundamental beleifs are diametricly opposed...... i challenge you to look at the macro aspect of our current global conflicts. You can honestly say that all of the micro confilcts are not part of a macro aproach and war...

anyway whatever

AH....excuse me----didn't you get the memo?

SADDAM IS DEAD!

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