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Originally Posted by stripersnipr
The really crappy thing about wars is they never go the way you would like.
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Of course, that's why you're supposed to have
contingency plans!
Not the "
let's assume the worst case" to get us in and then
"assume the best case" once we're there.
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Maybe Bin Laden has won some battles as you love to point out but so have we. No doubt his greatest victory would be the American People charging their own President with War Crimes. Couple that with running away from a fight with Al Queda (yes Al Queda is in Iraq) and.......use your imagination from there.
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We've has some tactical wins but little in the way of strategic wins against global terrorisim. If Bush was charged with war crimes or impeached Bin Laden wouldn't see it as a victory against the West, it would simply be confirmation of his beliefs that our leadership is corrupt.
And that's the rub. To hide what most around the world believe as unethical at best, or illegal at worst in the name of patriotisim is a serious compromise to the same moral superiority we claim to be standing up for in the middle east.
Try as you may to cast this aside as partisanship, but in doing so you're separating
yourself from the values of classical liberalisim that in the hands of nearly free men gave birth to the Declaration of Independence and the US Constiturion.
-spence
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