Posted By: mediabiased @ 09/07/2008 2:38:55 AM
Comment: Good to see a pragmatic humble guy (who thinks of the adversary's point of view and shows some basic respect) finally in power instead of loudmouth dummies for most of the past 8 years. If Petraeus was in charge from the beginning, there probably wouldn't have been a war in the first place. As he says, you have to separate those who you can work with from those who you can't. Saddam basically wanted to stay in power and was a guy who the US could have worked with (he was after all a former "our bastard"). The guy basically bent over backwards by destroying his WMDs in the early 1990s (as it has now been proven). This was was completely unnecessary. With some basic respect and reciprocity, the Saddam threat could have been diffused if a guy like Patraeus was in power then. Lousy loudmouth saber-rattling diplomacy after 9/11 created an unnecessary war which has stolen billions of dollars from future generations (as this administration didn't even have the balls to make people pay for it, passing the buck in the form of massive deficits to others who did not make the decision but are now faced to pay for them (these are the children of America who will have to pay the debt off)


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