‘No Victory Dances’

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  Posted By: mediabiased @ 09/07/2008 2:38:55 AM

  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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  Posted By: heathera1 @ 09/03/2008 12:10:53 PM

  If they haven't really changed then why are deaths and attacks down?

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  Posted By: heathera1 @ 09/03/2008 12:06:21 PM

  Why do people forget that we had a revolution and formed one of the greatest countries on the planet? When our founding fathers started the revolution (look at the name people) they were going to be hanged if caught, the names may be familiar, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams... Just because things are going to change does not mean they will fail. We have succeeded since then under horrible circumstances at times, keep giving them them the opportunity we had, or do they not deserve it as much as us? Everyone needs to take a history lesson and actually learn something form it! I'm not your typical republican, I disagree very much with them sometimes and for the most part I am split down the middle but, in this case, facts are facts. All these folks giving a guess as to what may happen in the country, leave that to the trained intel analysts in the military and ou just do some research before opening your mouth.