Patience emerges as critical weapon in Iraq war

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Patience emerges as critical weapon in Iraq war
By Bernd Debusmann, Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wearied by steady losses and few tangible signs of progress in the war in Iraq, the U.S. public is running out of one resource America's enemies appear to have in abundance -- patience.

Impatience with the war, now in its fifth year, was reflected in the elections that drove President George W. Bush's Republicans out of power in Congress in November. Since then, Bush named a new secretary of defense and new military commander in Iraq charged with implementing a new strategy.

But despite repeated appeals from Bush for patience while more troops arrive in Iraq to carry out the new strategy, opinion polls show that pessimism runs deep and most Americans favor a deadline for the withdrawal of troops.

"The ... question now is whether the U.S. has the patience to at least play out its current strategy and accept the fact that any hope of success must be measured in years of U.S. actions, not months," said Anthony Cordesman, an expert of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070504/us_nm/usa_iraq_patience_dc

Umm, right. So Plan A is "be patient"?

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1. Yah, yah, this is all the public's fault.

Where, oh where, did the public ever get the idea that this was going to be a quick, easy, glorious victory? These weasels continue to fend off the idea that it is their own ignorance, stupidity, and incompetence that created the mess they now find themselves mired in. There is no reason at all to think that patience will result in any better outcome than what we have now, especially not with the loons that created it in the first place still running the show.

:puke::puke::puke:

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2. Word. n/t