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KerryOn Donating Member (899 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 07:49 PM
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12. Why...
... should we occupy them until they are free?

Why we are busy playing "Police The World" North Korea, Iran, and China are take advantage of the situation.

The National Guard should be called "The International Guard". We do not have a National Guard at all. The National Guard is suppose to guard the home land. Hell we don't even have enough of them here to help contain the wild fires in the west.

Maybe your point was that it would be hard to leave Iraq now. I understand, but it would be a waste of lives, money and time to stay one minuter longer, because the war is a lost cause.

The only way we could win now would be to triple the number of troops we now have. Lock down all the boarders, and STOP the frigging flow of Cash coming from Syria, Iran (and probably Saudi Arabia, Russia and china)and other countries that are supporting the insurgency. (And that will never happen.)

And to be honest I don't think the * Administration wants the war to be over. The longer we are at war, the more money * and his cronies make over Halliburton No Bid Contracts. Blow it up, then build it up. Blow it up then build it up...B... then B...
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