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Originally posted by Joeaksa
Because as much as many people would love to turn the entire middle east into a glass parking lot, its not the right thing to do.
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So, is a half-assed invasion the
right thing to do?
You hawks should know this by now - war is not something you can do halfway. It's not like needlepoint or marriage or restoring a Model T, where if you get bored or frustrated halfway through, you can just move on to the next project. Vietnam should have made that abundantly clear, although it's not any different than the days Ghengis Kahn or when the cavemen of Wurfump took on the village of Grokqwk. Go big, or go home. If there is
any question of motives, abilities, consquences, etc, you don't go in until they're resolved. If a
legitimate reason for going to war with Iraq had existed, it would have been dereliction of duty for GWB to do anything but wipe them from the face of the earth. GWB sold the war on the basis of misinformation at best, outright deception at worth, and as such was hampered at the get-go.
Now that things haven't turned out the way you wanted ("they'll shower us with rose petals" you're blaming the "liberal pussies" Your emperor has no clothes, and you're claiming the liberals were the tailor.
This is the part where you dredge out the list of quotes from politicians who supported the war before hand... and they were lied to as well, so that they would in turn help build support (and vote for) the war. I think an apt term is "house of cards"
At this point, ya go nuttin' but $1T or so down the hole, a couple thousand dead US soldiers, anywhere from 30k to 100k dead Iraqis, a civil war, and for what? The US isn't any safer than it was before; in fact, you've all but printed the terrorist recruiting posters. We don't have the manpower to quell the situation in Iraq.