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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 10:18 AM
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31. I assume they think it's like a football game.
It's as if there is a line of scrimmage in Iraq that nobody can pass by and come "get" us. But if we take our blockers away, the bad guys will burst through, cross Europe and the Atlantic and (I guess) attack me in my home here in Columbus for some reason.

Another image is of the bad guys lined up single file in Iraq, since there is obviously no other way to get to America except by going through Iraq first.

How does tying up our entire military in one country make America safer? It's like having all the town's fire engines occupied in the next town over, and claiming that this ensures that your home won't burn. It makes no sense at all, which is exactly why it is a right-wing whining point.
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