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Edited on Wed Feb-27-08 01:05 AM by butlerd
Honestly, McCain et. al need to get over themselves about it. It needs to be exposed for what it is once and for all, which is "window dressing" that was designed (and successfully used unfortunately) by Bush/Cheney to keep wavering Republicans "in line" to prevent the possibility of a Congressionally mandated withdrawal or drawdown (that seemed all but inevitable after the 2006 midterm elections) and to keep the occupation going until........???? Somehow the thought that we are "reducing" violence over there, at least in part, by essentially paying former "enemies" off and also arming them doesn't feel very reassuring to me and it probably seems even less so to our troops whom are actually over there. Things like this always seem to come back and bite us in the a** later (i.e. Bin Laden, Afghanistan, the Soviets) and it's not like the Bush (mis-)administration has gone out of its way to win "the hearts and minds of the Iraqi public. In fact, it effectively destroyed (the ONLY thing they are "effective" at) any hope of doing so the minute that we started "shocking and awing" them. Oh, and WHAT political progress???? :mad:
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