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2006/10/16-19 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:44837 Activity:nil
10/16   http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/16/iraq.poll/index.html
        Seven out of 10 women giving aid and comfort to the Enemy
        \_ "However, President George W. Bush personally assured the Iraqi prime
           minister Monday that he has no plans to pull U.S. troops out and
           that there is no U.S. timeline for Iraqi forces to take over."
           Boy, it makes _me_ feel better to know there's no timeline to hand
           things over to the Iraqis.
           \_ Bush found out that "we stand down as they stand up" sounded too
              much like "cutting and running".
              \_ this is the part i don't understand.  what is wrong with
                 "cutting and running?"  we are already done that in
                 Afghanistan.
                 \_ probably because Afghanistan was always a mess and we
                    never really made a serious commitment to turning it into
                    a real country.  the rest of the world and half of this
                    country didn't think we'd even win militarily.  but iraq,
                    although a brutal dictatorship, was still a functioning
                    government and there's a healthy dose of break-it-bought-it
                    that goes with destroying another nation's government. so
                    we owe the iraqi people some form of real government but
                    afghanistan never had that so the bar is lower.
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www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/16/iraq.poll/index.html
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