A partisan political statement

[Fat Old Guy]

"Senior Balloon from Massachusetts. Very adult and analytical.

 

I'm sure that you find it very amusing and profound when the liberals made fun of Quayle's spelling gaffe (the teacher was a Democrat and gave him a bad card) or when they poke fun at W's misrenounciation of words.

[scoutingagain]

". I remeber hearing that by the end of this year it may drop below 100,000 if everything goes well."

 

I remember hearing:

 

Iraq had or was close to having weapons of mass destruction.

 

The Iraqi's would greet our forces with open arms as liberators.

 

Iraq oil revenues would pay for the reconstruction of Iraq.

 

It would take less than 60,000 troops to occupy Iraq.

 

While I don't have quotes, V.P. Dick Cheney expressed essentially all these opinions on Meet the Press the weekend befor the war started.

 

And I remember the one General that expressed his opinion to Congress that US troops would be in Iraq for several years and it would take over a 100,000 troops to occupy Iraq was removed from his position the following week, i.e. Fired.

 

Although now that we have invaded a country, removed its government(as bad as it was, and that is a good thing), destroyed much of it's infrastructure I believe we have moral obligation to stay in Iraq as long as it takes to establish a stable government,(not necessarily democratic) so the country does not disintegrate into civil war and the Iraqi's can defend themselves from neighboring countries that would like to influence events in Iraq.

 

In the end I wouldn't be suprised if the Iraqis end up with a Moslem government, trading with the French, Germans and Russians.

 

SA