TRUKR
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It's far too late to leave Iraq as we found it - let alone leave it "better". Somewhere between 250K and 900K Iraqis dead, nearing 3000 US troops dead and thousands more injured - and tens of thousands exposed to urban combat scenes they'll carry home and live with for the next 50 years.
All agree by now - a week after the November 2006 elections - that there is no good way out - only variations on ways out that are surely going to leave Iraq and the Iraqis far worse off for our war effort.
Iran is accelerating its work toward nuclear weapons. Weapons all agree they cannot possess but that rhetoric got us where we are. Lines in the sand that we can't back up with more than words. There are no more troops to deploy - McCain is wrong in assuming more troops can do what hasn't been done. Too late to get it right - that opportunity passed about 3 years ago.
I see a Sunni extermination wave - Iran aiding Iraq's Shia government. All distinction between police and militia lost as we begin leaving the theater. In fact that distinction is lost now when we euphemistically say "insurgents disguised as Iraqi Police" kidnapped and killed 30 civilians. Who's to say they weren't Iraqi Police? And using whose arms and training? That would be our arms and our training of course.
So we stand aside - watch Iranian forces cross the border - within six to twelve months and at the request of the Iraqi government - creating a Greater Iran with a new client state - the former nation of Iraq.
We done good. And looking at the map doesn't that leapfrog Iran about 500 miles/ 800 km closer to Israel? And London and Wilmington Delaware?
All agree by now - a week after the November 2006 elections - that there is no good way out - only variations on ways out that are surely going to leave Iraq and the Iraqis far worse off for our war effort.
Iran is accelerating its work toward nuclear weapons. Weapons all agree they cannot possess but that rhetoric got us where we are. Lines in the sand that we can't back up with more than words. There are no more troops to deploy - McCain is wrong in assuming more troops can do what hasn't been done. Too late to get it right - that opportunity passed about 3 years ago.
I see a Sunni extermination wave - Iran aiding Iraq's Shia government. All distinction between police and militia lost as we begin leaving the theater. In fact that distinction is lost now when we euphemistically say "insurgents disguised as Iraqi Police" kidnapped and killed 30 civilians. Who's to say they weren't Iraqi Police? And using whose arms and training? That would be our arms and our training of course.
So we stand aside - watch Iranian forces cross the border - within six to twelve months and at the request of the Iraqi government - creating a Greater Iran with a new client state - the former nation of Iraq.
We done good. And looking at the map doesn't that leapfrog Iran about 500 miles/ 800 km closer to Israel? And London and Wilmington Delaware?