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Originally Posted by GoS
I doubt that, and disagree with, anyone who says that we can pull right out of Iraq. That would be the dumbest thing ever. Second to that might be staying. Our troops are on the line, aren't even being protected to the best of our ability, doing other peoples work. We need to send a sign to the Iraqis that shows we will not stay for ever, aren't split down the middle, we mean what we say. Right now they have a black check from a divided, indecisive world power to fight their civil war. If we just leave, however, things will get worse than they were before, and our drawing Al-Queda there and re-igniting tensions did not help. Do we even know why we are there, other than we were misled by, and lied to by, the Bush Admin & Co?
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That's just it, we were basically there to redesign the middle east. I don't think Bush "lied" per se. If you watch this:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/9596/meet-...97#x-4,vclip,1
Bill Clinton makes the exact same case as Bush for war in Iraq. No one lied except Saddam, the entire world was being lied to by Saddam Hussein. He was pretending to be much bigger than he was. The Russians, British and French all had the same intelligence we did.