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Quote by: Autolykos  When you get right down to it, it doesn't matter to me one bit whether the US and its allies are "winning" the "war" in Iraq. Either way, I want the US forces out of there. I oppose the "war" in Iraq as a matter of principle.
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Got it.
Based on past experience with similar choices, I would prefer we keep our word with the Iraqi people, to whom we made a promise to support them as an ally after Saddam was deposed. We made a similar promise and broke it in Vietnam, and the result was mass slaughter on an unimaginable scale. Unimaginable to those who have never had to struggle against a Communist dictator, that is.
Cubans are now fleeing in greater numbers than they have in years, simply because Castro's brother has shown them none of the relief from their oppression that they had hoped for upon Castro's stepping down or dying.
Remember that very few Congresscritters voted against using force to oust Saddam in post-9/11 atmosphere, so their flip-flopping to appease the radical lefties in the media and their moveon-type "constituencies" serve only to show our allies that we can't be counted on in the long run, no matter how badly we are attacked, and no matter what our leaders say to the contrary.
As far as our foreign policy is concerned, both our allies and our enemies have rightly concluded that this country has the attention span of a two-year-old at Chuckie Cheese.
As you were.