The US is winning in Iraq. Number do not lie.

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Originally Posted by Mike AI

Desperation. It is easy for terrorist to kill children, blow up mosques and other soft targets. They also know that people like you will see the mayhem on TV and get your sphincter all tight. The terrorist know how you think Joe along with PD and all the other vietnam scardy-cats, and they know the media will keep showing the images trying to undermine the war effort.

The US cannot be defeated in battle. We can only lose at home.

The terrorists are defeating you Joe, how does it feel to be a patsy for some ass-backwards guy who lives in cave?

You sound just like a Frenchman.* BTW - I wear glasses, so I think the appropriate retort for me is four-eyed scaredy-cat.

You should feel lucky. You have a scapegoat already in place when what seems to be the inevitable will happen - Iraq collapses into civil war, in a chaos that makes the former Yugoslovia look organized and orderly. Adopt the inevitable right wing retort, and blame it on the liberals instead of flat out fucking stupidity (or worse) in the war plan.

(You won't) Face it, Mikey, Your boys flat out fucking blew it. I don't know whether Bush/Cheney/Rice/McRumnama are just criminally stupid, or whether they believed their own blowback - but the inept way they planned for the occupation of Iraq (boots on the ground) has all but ensured long-term disasterous results for the United States. I've been saying it for years - boots on the ground early, and this clusterfuck would have been avioded.

The biggest similarity to Vietnam is that the United States is acting in concert with a puppet government that has no credibility with the populace. In 'nam the Army was riddled with Cong traitors. In Iraq the Army is riddled with sectarian operatives, and the various and sundry militias are taking over the army in some regions of the country. They are sharpening their knives to break Bosnia's records, I'm afraid.

The saddest fucking part is that it is all could have been avoided. (boots on the ground early) A few more months and a genuine effort to develop a true coalition, or even a few hundred thousand more U.S and U.K. troops could have resulted in Iraq being occupied like Eurpoe was in the aftermath of WWII. Instead we occupied Iraq just like we did Vietnam - on a part-time basis.

* - There's still plenty of Frenchman smarting over getting their asses kicked in Vietnam by the Communists and in Algeria by the Muslims.

Hmmm ... why is the song "fools rush in" running through my head?