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I disagree with almost all of your conclusions, but appreciate that reasonable minds can differ on many of them. At least you take this seriously enough to understand what is going on and make reasoned arguments.
I'm just going to pick one of your points to demonstrate the fallacy of that one:
Would any US General ever respond to a foreign order that was not approved within the US chain of command? Never
When Rumsfeld was first questioned abot this, he didn't even know about it. Yes, you heard me correctly. He mumbled something about wanting to confirm the story before he commented, and went on to other things.
This war has been waged incompetently from day one. That is not going to change with the same people running it today.
Sadr controls Maliki. Sadr has killed American soldiers, and continues to do so.
We are fighting FOR the terrorists, not against them. No amount of rationalization can change that simple fact.
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We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
We will stay the course *** We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]
And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]
And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. [4/16/04]
And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]
Well, hey, listen, we’ve never been “stay the course” [10/21/06]
--- George W. Bush, President of the United States of America
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