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jeff house
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posted 05 November 2006 01:45 PM      Profile for jeff house     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
"The best way to support the troops now is to take them out of harm's way."

Watch this video! He makes five really good points:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jstVdg8v8jE


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jester
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posted 05 November 2006 02:35 PM      Profile for jester        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I think it is increasingly clear that Bush is willing to ignore the misery he causes with extended and multiple deployments.

He is willing to let the military take needless casualties simply so that he can dump the mess on the next administration and walk away denying responsibility in January,2008.

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At least 41 American troops have been killed in Iraq this month. Approximately 300 have been wounded. The "battle for Baghdad" is going nowhere. A Marine friend just back from Ramadi said to me, "It didn’t get any better while I was there, and it’s not going to get better." Virtually everyone in Washington, except the people in the White House, knows that is true for all of Iraq.

Actually, I think the White House knows it too. Why then does it insist on "staying the course" at a casualty rate of more than one thousand Americans per month? The answer is breathtaking in its cynicism: so the retreat from Iraq happens on the next President’s watch. That is why we still fight.

Yep, it’s now all about George. Anyone who thinks that is too low, too mean, too despicable even for this bunch does not understand the meaning of the adjective "Rovian." Would they let thousands more young Americans get killed or wounded just so George W. does not have to face the consequences of his own folly? In a heartbeat.


William S. Lind

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