Slap in the face--

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Originally Posted by justplugit

to our troops whatever political views are held on the war.

After years of front page news of our problems in Iraq the Associated Press

had an article in today's paper on PAGE 11 stating we have essentially won the war and our troop's focus will change.

PAGE 11, After all the sacrifices and great job done by our young troops.

Sad truly sad.

Yeah it's sad but was is even sadder is that all those young soldiers died for something that was not necesary. It made us no safer. The real threat lies in the mountains of the Afghan/Pakastani border since 9/11/2001.

That's where we should have been. Our absence in major force numbers have allowed the Taliban to regroup and strengthen and Al Qaida still operates, weakened a bit, maybe but there are new recruits willing to martyr themselves for Jihad in the name of Allah in radical Islamic principals.

Saddam could have been dealt with in other ways. As long as he was in power there was a moderate level of stability. He could have easily been "persuaded" to alter his behavior until we finished with AlQaida by threat of cruise missles and airstrikes.

Then the world courts could have marshalled thier forces to bring him into the halls of justice. He offered oil to Bush just before the invasion at pennys a barrel and was willing to make other concessions in order to keep his office.

Every other middle east govt was afraid of him, that kept stability. We could have bled him dry for cooperation in seeking out AlQiada to save his own preciuos neck.

We missed a giant oportunity for a coup there. The Saudis and Paskitan are not our friends, it's just business to them, nothing more.