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Originally posted by Mike AI@Mar 15 2004, 01:14 PM
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040315/1/3irv0.html
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The war in Iraq was a disaster, the occupation of Iraq is a disaster," Zapatero, 43, told Cadena Ser radio Monday.
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This guy is out of touch. The War in Iraq was one of the most successful ever. What other country could have pulled off such a swift victory with so few casualties? Militarily speaking it was amazing. ( were there mistakes? of course - it is war. )
The occupation has had some problems, definatly some lack of planning and knowledge of mid east mind sets and such. However, I think it has gone pretty well.
It has not even celerated the first anniversy of the start of the war yet....
This is but a small snipit in time.
PD you are an old guy, how long before Vietnam became an major politcal issue with regards to the occupation and war? I know it was not less then a year.
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There was opposition almost from the beginning of American involvement in combat - right around the '64 election. In the beginning it was very small.
It didn't become a major political force until 2 years later. By '68, it was THE issue - and Nixon won on the outright lie that he had a secret plan to win the war.